Checks and Balances

Defiant: Loudoun County school board passes Orwellian speech codes

Checks and Balances, Conquest and Colonization, Evidence-based policy, Kindness and Compassion, Liberty, Moral foundations, Social & Political, Speech and Conscience, Uncategorized / By / August 13, 2021

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” (George Orwell, 1984) “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist” (Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, as quoted in “Hannah Arendt On Standing Up …

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The Loudoun County Public Schools Board Has Mutinied

Checks and Balances, Conquest and Colonization, Evidence-based policy, Kindness and Compassion, Liberty, Moral foundations, Rule of law, Self-governance, Social & Political, Speech and Conscience / By / June 28, 2021

The reason? Parents and other taxpayers dared to clap after a speaker’s comments. CAUSE FOR CONCERN The pushback from many LCPS parents and taxpayers today revolves around a recent sharp and severe leftward turn of the school board, buoyed by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, and accompanied by a growing sense by some that …

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Democrats to America: “You’d better put some ice on that.”

Checks and Balances, Conquest and Colonization, Liberty, Moral foundations, Rule of law, Self-governance / By / November 11, 2020

One week after Election Day, 2020, the United States still have no official declaration of a projected winner of our presidential contest. However, this fact has not prevented the media from crowning a preferred victor: Joe Biden. And, many are insisting with great stridency that the rest of us fall in line. Beginning early Wednesday, …

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Does National Popular Vote sound good to you? Think again.

Checks and Balances, Conquest and Colonization, Evidence-based policy, Kindness and Compassion, Liberty, Moral foundations, Rule of law, Self-governance, Social & Political, Uncategorized / By / February 15, 2020

The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill this past Tuesday, February 11, 2020, to award Virginia’s delegates to the winner of the popular vote nationwide, regardless of who wins the contest in the state of Virginia. Supporters of the so-called “National Popular Vote” movement argue that the Electoral College is not fair, and …

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Reflections on the eve of Brexit, with heartfelt American congratulations

Checks and Balances, Evidence-based policy, Kindness and Compassion, Liberty, Moral foundations, Rule of law, Self-governance, Social & Political, Speech and Conscience, Uncategorized / By / June 21, 2021

This, the final week of January, 2020, is a tremendous moment not only for the people of the UK, but also for the nations of the world. I write these words with all deference and respect for my friends and colleagues of goodwill who hold opposing opinions concerning the wisdom and consequences of what is …

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