Schools: First do no harm

Every once in a while, you come across a simple idea, or a simple question, that changes how you think about almost everything.  Paul Goodman once asked a question like that, which is most easily illustrated with a simple curve.

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The Founders Held Great Mistrust for Democracy

The Founders Held Great Mistrust for Democracy

The Founders held great mistrust for democracy.  They did desire democratic principles.  They did not want a democracy for our form of government.  America’s founders were widely read.  They knew the work of Plato who wrote in The Republic, “And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.” Our history from James Madison As Plato decrees, … Read more

The permanent tourniquet

A tourniquet can be a lifesaver when serious bleeding is occurring.  But when the bleeding has stopped — when the source of the problem has been identified, and fixed — you remove the tourniquet.  Otherwise, you risk developing gangrene in the limb that needs the blood supply that you’ve just cut off.  At least, that’s how it works in medicine.  In politics, we just leave the tourniquet in place indefinitely.

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Charter Schools Improve Education Opportunities

Rejecting the $46 million public charter school grant could cost taxpayers up to $178 million over the next ten years, according to a new report from the New Hampshire Department of Education. Rejecting these funds would be a costly mistake that New Hampshire families cannot afford, fiscally or in terms of the opportunity for students … Read more

The Pomeranian Prince Buttigeig

Pete Buttigieg looks for opportunities to talk about his, “Military Service.” “I have the experience of being commanded into a war zone by an American president,” exclaimed Buttigeig during the November debates. “I have more military experience since anybody to arrive behind that desk since George H.W. Bush.” Buttigeig added. Well, that sounds impressive, does it … Read more

unborn baby in womb

Take Action to Protect Human Life

Please take action to protect human life in New Hampshire by contacting your legislators about the following legislative items. Contact your Representatives CACR 14, Abortion in the New Hampshire Constitution The full House is meeting this week, and is expected to vote on putting abortion into the New Hampshire Constitution. Contact your representatives and ask … Read more

Two Parent Family

School funding alone won’t help children out of poverty

To The Daily Sun, Haley Thomas’s 1/29/20 letter makes valid points about childhood and generational poverty, and their negative effects on peoples’ lives. But Thomas’s apparent solution, increased school funding, is simply inadequate, and, based on decades of history, unlikely to improve educational results or reduce poverty. Calling for school funding increases may make people … Read more

Grok and 603 Alliance

FITN Grok/603 Broadcast – Couple of addendum snippets

A picture that says it all about the Media that were at the DoubleTree hotel and a story from a Grok friend who had been making the rounds. Everybody needs a break from time to time and having been through the DoubleTree (when it was a Radisson) hotel during previous FITN’s (First In The Nation … Read more

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