Economist Frank Knight

The “obvious and simple system of natural liberty.”

The supreme and inestimable merit of the exchange mechanism is that it enables a vast number of people to cooperate in the use of means to achieve ends as far as their interests are mutual, without arguing or in any way agreeing about either the ends or the methods of achieving them.

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America Needs to Use Wisdom to Arrive at Sound Judgments

America Needs to Use Wisdom to Arrive at Sound Judgments

Recent history is full of events showing society has lost respect for wisdom. In comparison with knowledge, wisdom is now undervalued or has no value at all. The reason knowledge has leaped to the fore is the extraordinary rate of advancement in technology, medicine and other areas of science.

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Islam: A Plague Upon Humanity

Prior to the 9/11 attacks, most Americans did not have any understanding as to what Islam was. The attacks on September 11, 2001 opened the eyes of many people to the reality that Islam was a widespread plague upon humanity and responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Islam and its variants mean, … Read more

Gilford School District

Gilford School Board: “They seem intent on making this happen irrespective of people’s concerns,” – Part 4

And at last night’s School Board meeting, they did – passed the Transgender and gender non-conforming students policy unanimously except for one of the Gilmanton School Board members in dissension. Even after it was pointed out during the Public Comment session #1 that there were STILL internal and diametrically opposing inconsistencies within the policy – … Read more

Learn Everywhere is really Teach Everywhere

The problem with Learn Everywhere is that it’s not really about learning.  It is, instead, about earning credit towards graduation, something that has very little to do with learning. (It’s not hard to find students who have ‘credit’ in algebra, but who can’t tell you what a variable is,

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Chains, children, shackle, slave

Learn Everywhere? No – you MUST learn HERE!

The Learn Everywhere program was an innovative program passed into law that allowed the Commissioner and Board of Education to create rules that allowed curriculum performed outside of the classroom to count for High School credit. Each School District, if the rules were adopted, would be ‘forced’ to accept said credits, even if performed by … Read more

NASA has pictures of the Australian fires.

Rather grisly, as I look at them. While there are similar fires out West here in the US, we rarely see much more than a few acres at a time here in the Northeast corner of the US (in New England). NASA has a couple of birds in space taking pics – here’s a few … Read more

Palate Cleanser: real life or 3D drawing?

Watching this is pretty amazing!  You are actually watching the drawing done, so you know it’s on paper, but when it’s done, it is SO well done you still think it is real and not a drawing! (H/T: OddityCentral)

So now even Mrs. Doubtfire is in trouble??

Kill everything AND expose their own hypocrisy on everything. And this time they have gone to far (if I was to put this to TMEW as Mrs. Doubtfire is one of her top 3 movies): The Seattle Times and humorless Seattle activists believe the new 5th Avenue Theater production of “Mrs. Doubtfire” is “problematic” because a male character … Read more

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