The Cult of Mediocrity
Art once served as a ladder rather than a mirror. The greatest civilizations understood this instinctively. They built cathedrals that caused ordinary people to look upward in awe, composed music that stirred the soul toward transcendence, painted heroes, saints, kings, warriors, mothers, martyrs, and visionaries not because human beings had …
Americans No Longer Trust the CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency remains one of the most powerful organizations in Washington, but a new survey suggests it is struggling to maintain the confidence of the public it serves. According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll conducted May 31 through June 2, just 46% of likely U.S. voters hold …
SPLC Indictment Raises Explosive Question: Was the Watchdog Feeding the Threat It Claimed to Fight?
The Southern Poverty Law Center built its national reputation by promising donors it would expose hate, monitor extremists, and dismantle white supremacy. Now federal prosecutors are accusing the organization of secretly paying some of the very figures it publicly condemned. A federal grand jury in Alabama first charged the SPLC …
“Parents vs. Government: The Homeschool Debate”
“Melissa Blasek is joined by Will Estrada of the Home School Legal Defense Association to discuss the growing nationwide push for increased homeschool regulation, what’s driving these efforts, and how families and advocates can respond. They also break down the New Hampshire Home Education Freedom Act now headed to the …
FIRST HANTAVIRUS, NOW EBOLA: THEY WANT YOU SCARED
First we were treated to nonstop legacy media coverage of a cruise ship stricken with the deadly hantavirus. Hantavirus, with its 40% mortality rate and an incubation period lasting for weeks, made the perfect pandemic boogey man. With some of the initial fears about the human-to-human spread of hantavirus beginning …