Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: STUCK IN DEBASEMENT Treat your people as if they were knaves, Make them crave what an animal craves, Confiscate all their wealth, Micromanage their health, And you’ll soon have a nation of slaves. From the archive: …
Below are the questions from a midterm exam I prepared for a civics class for homeschooled teenagers. Every American voter should know the answers. 1. Name the three classes of citizens in Plato’s Republic. 2. According to Aristotle, what are the three proper forms of government? 3. What are the …
When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on …
Here’s an interesting post on the Cliff Notes for The Education of Henry Adams. A passage in which Adams is clearly lamenting the stifling of the religious impulse is perversely interpreted as being a celebration of the same. The poster notes that she has encountered such anomalies in Cliff Notes …
“Secret” and “corrupt” are the two words that best describe the process by which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid produced his trillion-dollar government takeover of our health care system. — Newt Gingrich
Below are the questions from a midterm exam I prepared for a civics class for homeschooled teenagers. Every American voter should know the answers. 1. Name the three classes of citizens in Plato’s Republic. 2. According to Aristotle, what are the three proper forms of government? 3. What are the …
