Archive for the 'intolerance' Category

Free, But…

I had not planned to get into this subject at the present time but events sometimes arise that push us in directions not of our choosing.
Today, there was a news article on the Internet from The Christian Science Monitor. It was an article written by Mackubin Thomas Owens who is Professor of National Security Affairs [...]

How Far?

The following two articles were copied from the November 30th issue of the “Patriot Post” , Patriot Vol. 07 Number 48, and are examples of what I said in my posting, “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS” on November21st.

 ‘Non Compos Mentis’: Zero tolerance
Two students were suspended for ten days this week at Lee’s Summit West High School in Kansas [...]

Memory and Survival

 
Don’t bemoan your failing memory as you age. It is to be expected and not necessarily totally as a result of age. When people are young, everything is new and interesting. Everyone has observed how small children take things apart to see what’s inside. It is the curiosity of the new experience that fixes our [...]

Creeping Socialism

We have heard over and over that there is no such thing as a ‘free lunch’. We, as a people, are losing our ability to survive on our own. We are all expecting the governments-local, state and federal to supply us with everything to make our lives comfortable. We are becoming dependent on someone else [...]

Political Correctness

Political CorrectnessThe recent trend to “Political Correctness”, that is, neither saying nor doing anything that might offend anyone else leads to a society in which everyone is alert to the possibility that someone might be offended. People start to attempt to seek out the slightest gesture of word or deed that they may consider to [...]