It seems simple enough. Students in high school take introductory courses at nearby state colleges for dual credit. But what is the dividing line between high school and college these days? Should we really rely on assumptions in place from…
“More women staying home with young kids” the headlines now proclaim across the country. Just plug the phrase into any search engine. Decades of social engineering finally are being reversed. Divorces and sulking Adam Lanza-type children will hopefully become less common.…
A quick search on Google using keywords “american right putin” reveals that American conservatives aren’t in agreement about Putin and his latest ventures in the Ukraine. Old schoolers like the clarity that was part of Cold War thinking. It was…
(P-51 Mustang fighters fly over Iwo Jima) On April 7, 1945, one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific had just been brought under control. Japanese holdouts were still hidden on Iwo Jima, from which American P-51 Mustang fighters flew…
You’re in line to vote, but the man in front of you says that his vote is worth 100 times yours. An eavesdropping woman behind you points out that her vote is 1000 times your vote. How did this happen?…
Yesterday’s killings of unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood remind us of how much mental illness has infiltrated the public square. I’m not talking about the shooter, but about the political mindset that afflicts average, comfort-seeking Americans who think that deranged…
Charles “Charlie” Summers (USAF ret) of Rapid City spent three tours in Vietnam flying the F-100 Super Sabre. On Saturday, April 12th, he will present his combat experiences to the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group at the Western Dakota Technical…
Educational practice has stood the test of time, over thousands of years, through trial and error. You might even say that there’s always been a common core of what worked, and what didn’t. Progressives today feel that…
“A Knight at the Crossroads” by Viktor Vasnetsov (1878) The who’s who of the conservative world seem to have found a common spokesman in Daniel Greenfield whose “The Shape of a Post-Modern World“ is almost a bulleted list…
America’s Monroe Doctrine of 1823 warned distant nations that interfering with North and South America would not be tolerated. Military intervention would meet any act of aggression. The policy was demonstrated in JFK’s handling of the Cuban missile crisis. …