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Stop With the Politics: A New Approach to the Culture Wars 0
- Culture
- October 19, 2020
G.K. Chesterton once wrote “‘My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’” Agreed. Both a country in the wrong and a mother on the bottle need some help and correction. But hidden beneath Chesterton’s quip is
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The History of the Supreme Court in Nine Justices: Foundation and Secession 0
- History
- October 19, 2020
If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, she will be the 115th justice to sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, spanning 231 years of the court’s history. The Supreme Court first convened on February 2, 1790, in a session with no cases on the docket. It would have begun on February 1, but a quorum
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Let Them Call You Racist 0
- Culture
- October 16, 2020
All’s fair in love and war, unless what one has to say threatens war on the beloved pieties of progressivism. Stephanie Martinez and Lauren Witzke learned this lesson recently. Martinez is a pro-Trump student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In early April, she joined the LMU student government as a “senator for diversity
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Nancy Pelosi and the 25th Amendment 0
- Politics
- October 16, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to get rid of Donald Trump. She apparently does not have faith in the voters. Instead, she is proposing legislation to create a commission under the 25th Amendment so Congress can remove the Trump from office. She claims that since his coronavirus treatment, Trump is in an altered state of
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Elon Musk on Lockdowns: ‘Sweden Was Right’0
- Politics
- October 16, 2020
When people think of polarizing countries, Sweden rarely leaps to mind. At least that was the case before 2020. Sweden’s decision to take a “lighter touch” to the coronavirus pandemic – foregoing strict lockdowns and relying primarily on social responsibility to encourage social distancing – has made it a lighting rod for criticism. Many commentators
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Minneapolis Public Schools Spend $26K Per Student Annually 0
- Education
- October 16, 2020
Everyone knows that COVID has disrupted the education system like nothing else in recent memory. But as time goes on it appears that this may only be the tip of the iceberg. A recent MPR news report suggests that for Minnesota public schools, declining enrollment is worse than was ever imagined several months ago. Citing
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