A flowerpot of ashes from the fire of liberty…tokens of hope and truth preserved for future generations who dare to believe that there was once something else.

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A few random posts…

  • Hermeneutics
    Making the version 2 Constitution even more self-interpreting than version 1; what happens when it is silent AND when it speaks
  • Climate Change
    A discussion of scientism in the arena of climate change (specifically its public policy advocacy aspect)
  • Bad History: Original Zinn
    Howard Zinn's one-sided polemic version of U.S. history has become inexplicably influential in the teaching of U.S. history. Don't let this happen again!
  • Case Study: Native American history
    A case study in Bad History: a summary of the (simplistic) Prevailing Narrative of Native American history, and details supporting a Countervailing Narrative.
  • Virtue-signaling
    A discussion of the relationship between scientism and virtue-signaling (specifically, signaling membership in the elite) in public life