Galileo by Mitch Stokes is a highly entertaining and informative book that helps rewrite the conventional wisdom the it was the church that stood in the way of Galileo and others as they pushed forward the idea that the earth was not the center of the universe. The geocentric view was in fact widely adhered to…
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The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming
I enjoyed reading The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming to my son (age 12). It kept him thoroughly engaged. My wife enjoyed it when she read it too. It also provides a sad commentary on elitism, both on the blindness of the elite to the real world around them…
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Real Reformers’ Real Advantage
“The real reformer has a real advantage, but one which he rarely recognizes himself as having. Living in the world that actually exists is an enormous advantage. There are times when it almost seems to me like cheating or something. In the long run, we need not worry. In the long run, blind stupidity never…
The Wellspring of Freedom
The wellspring of freedom in our world comes from the Judeo-Christian belief that man is created in the image of God. If we are not, then there is no justification for one person to claim equality with those in a better position than she. And no reason for a person in authority to treat others…
The Mouth of Rove: The Marginalization of the WSJ
In the Lord of the Rings, the Mouth of Sauron was the ambassador and messenger of Sauron. As a Black Numenorean, the Mouth had given up his greatness to worship and serve Sauron. Likewise, the Wall Street Journal appears to be descending from once great heights to serve as the mouth of Karl Rove and other…
Cronyism & Comcast
Comcast is in the process of buying Time Warner Cable, a deal that will create the largest cable provider in the U.S. The FCC, of course, has to approve the deal. It is no surprise that Comcast and Time Warner Cable have done their best to grease the wheels for approval through political donations and…
Freedom Reigns: Still No Stopping the Texas Economy
Wendell Cox’s new report, 2013 Metropolitan Area Population Estimates, is the latest confirmation that Paul Krugman and other liberal critics of the Texas Model are wrong; Texas has far and away the most dynamic economy in the United States. For example: Late in the last decade, Dallas-Fort Worth passed Philadelphia to become the fourth largest metropolitan area….
Why Worry? The New York Times says ObamaCare is not a Problem
Turns out, per the New York Times, that Obamacare is really just federalism at work, another experiment in the laboratories of democracy, the states. Everybody can stop worrying now: The online insurance marketplace in Oregon is such a technological mess that residents have been signing up for health coverage by hand. In Texas, political opposition…
In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty
I love all of G. A. Henty books, as does my son. In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce is about the twentieth of Henty’s great historical fiction books for boys–and their dads–we have read together. Like the rest of them, this one helped us learn about history and the difference between right and…