An interesting project is taking shape over at Joe’s Crabby Shack. Think about how much difference just one person can make in any situation.
His focus is naturally on how much of a difference one armed person can make in any given situation.
But I think the idea can be carried much further. There [...]
Welcome to the fourth Carnival of Principled Government. While its actual posting was not inhibited by the birth of my fourth child, it went sorely neglected. Still, a loyal few submitted.
The key foundation upon which our nation rests is not so much the documents which created it, but the character of its people. [...]
Update: Thanks for the timely question, Kinderlehrer! I knew the pictures would be posted, but only just found out where. They will be posted on this website (click on “HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA”). The first pictures are already up and the rest will be put in an online album.
Update 2: Melissa [...]
Uncle Orson Reviews Everything offers an interesting article in which he criticizes the “educational establishment” and its undue deference to “experts.”
There are people who have snookered us into paying them a lot of money because they claim to be experts on education, but it’s all a game. They collect degrees by taking classes from [...]
In response to the Virginia Tech shootings, Michelle Malkin has an interesting article arguing for the renewal of the culture of self-defense.
Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance.
And as the erosion of [...]
Here is our brand new little “Peanut,” born Monday afternoon and weighing 8 pounds, 9 ounces.
Delivery was a little more eventful than in my previous pregnancies. As I moved into the transition phase, my blood pressure suddenly began dropping. The nurse lowered my head, raised my feet, and propped me on my side [...]
Clarification: There is nothing wrong that is causing the doctors to induce. I have gone two weeks overdue with each of my three children, resulting in induction twice before. My last two were also both over nine pounds. We decided that since induction is likely anyway, we may as well make it at a time [...]
Raising a brood of halflings, we try to instill a bit of that dreaded “multi-culturalism” into our home. As if I could rationally curtail the influence of their father, his vegemite, his butchering of standard English and his blatant irreverence for, well, if you do not know any Australians, you might not understand. [...]
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