March 26, 2007 – 11:57 am
Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival of Principled Government. Again, we have a mix of views on a variety of topics central to our liberty, offered for further thought and discussion. Somewhat unintentionally, Thomas Jefferson seems to have come up predominantly in preparing this post, so I begin with a picture [...]
March 26, 2007 – 10:52 am
And the Carnival of the Insanities if up.
Also, the Carnival of Family Life is up.
And so long as we are talking about carnivals, the Carnival of Principled Government should be up in the near future, right here. Hopefully within the hour!
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
NoisyRoom.net – http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/
Among the clamor and pushiness that is today’s politics, it is more important than ever to take a stand and fight for clear representation that truly mirrors the will of the people. Not to toe the party line or take the path of least resistance, but to ensure that true [...]
This, I believe, originally came from The Link Homeschool Newsletter and is by John Taylor Gatto (I made a couple minor corrections to the text):
1) An educated person writes his own script through life, he is not a character in a government or corporate play, nor does he mouth the words of any intellectual’s Utopian [...]
The next edition of the Carnival of Principled Government is coming up Monday. Submissions are due Sunday evening.
Here is a general outline of the goals of the carnival and the first edition. The main point is to highlight those entries which uphold the vision of our founding fathers.
Please consider contributing, and if you [...]
I’ve probably been reading a tad too much German education news recently, so probably made a leap in logic that not everyone will take with me. But this story about Knut, a baby polar bear who was abandoned by his mother in the Berlin Zoo, struck something within me that seems highly ironic. [...]
In honor of Star Wars’ 30th anniversary, the US Post Office is unveiling a new commemorative stamp March 29. And my very own Lincoln is one of 200 cities nationwide to be selected for a new mailbox to mark the event. Here’s that most well-loved droid, R2-D2, waiting for mail in front of [...]
March 20, 2007 – 11:18 am
Karroo. Karroo. Dawn breaks over the Platte River, just south of Kearney, Nebraska. The air quivers with the calls of thousands of sandhill cranes–as many as 12,000 per half mile of river– as they prepare to leave their roosts to forage for leftover corn in the nearby fields. Nebraska lies at [...]