Month: September 2013

Capturing the next generation The Coming Common Core DisasterThe new national education standards adopted by 45 States and the District of Columbia and now slipping into America’s schools are a collectivist’s dream. Called Common Core, it is an attempt to create a Federally controlled education system designed to turn children into mind-numbed drones devoid of

Cognitive Dissonance: “The Fox and the Grapes”

A classic illustration of cognitive dissonance is expressed in the fable “The Fox and the Grapes” by Aesop(ca. 620–564 BCE).  In the story, a fox sees some high-hanging grapes and wishes to eat them. When the fox is unable to think of a way to reach them, he decides that the grapes are probably not

Pastor shot, killed during church service A pastor was shot and killed during a church service on Friday night in Calcasieu. According to Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Kim Myers, it happened around 8:20 p.m. at the Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center at 307 Deshotel Lane in Lake Charles. Myers said Pastor Ronald J. Harris

Nearly two mass shootings per month since 2009, study findsThere have been almost two mass shootings per month in the U.S. for five consecutive years — yet such cases account for only a tiny fraction of firearm killings, according to a report by a coalition of mayors eager to stave off gun violence in the

NBC Set To Spend The Week As Obama’s Personal Propaganda MachineIf you tune in to NBC News this week, prepare to be dazzled by wall-to-wall Obamacare gush coverage. The network announced Friday that it has scheduled a special series of programs and reports to begin this week to “help Americans get the most out of

Governments stealing from bank accounts The questionable practice of “bail-ins” begun by Cyprus a year ago to keep banks solvent is beginning to spread to other nations, and holders of large deposits are starting to see their balances plunge literally overnight.  US sending bankrupt Detroit $300 million. Think ‘stimulus,’ not ‘bailout.’ The Obama administration is

The Coming Common Core DisasterThe new national education standards adopted by 45 States and the District of Columbia and now slipping into America’s schools are a collectivist’s dream. Called Common Core, it is an attempt to create a Federally controlled education system designed to turn children into mind-numbed drones devoid of imagination and inculcated with

Two large fireballs spotted over the skies of Ohio, USA Two very bright fireballs were spotted and recorded over the skies of Ohio, USA, in just two days. They quickly became 2nd and 3rd most reported events of all time on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website.  MAGNIFICENT ERUPTION Breaking the quiet in spectacular fashion,

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American mediaSeymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider. It

Top MIT scientist: Newest UN climate report is ‘hilariously’ flawedA top climate scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lambasted a new report by the UN’s climate bureaucracy… “I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,” Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot, a global warming skeptic news site.