Entries by Dr. Thomas Patterson

We Deserve A Better Voting System

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Elections aren’t being stolen. But they are carried out under rules devised by one side for their benefit. The Left loves our election system and why wouldn’t they? It has been a boon for them. They can win elections even when all seems lost.  They have learned to exploit, through both legal and extra-legal means, […]

Climate Danger

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Americans are becoming neurotic worriers.  Covid brought out the worst in us, as politicized medical leaders rushed us into a panic response that did far more harm than the disease itself without fundamentally affecting the net outcome of the pandemic. But Covid is hardly the only example of Americans overestimating the dangers in their lives. […]

Armed Teachers

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Americans were outraged to learn of the Nashville school shooting, where a transgender female shot and killed three children and three adults at a Christian school. As always, a fierce political debate broke out after the murders. Gun control advocates, mostly Democrats, again made impassioned and often vitriolic pleas for more stringent gun laws. It […]

DEI Is An Attack on Free Speech

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Jonathan Haidt is a professor at NYU, an acknowledged leader in the field of social psychology, and a champion of free speech. He recently faced a requirement that all scholars wishing to present research to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology were to submit a statement explaining “whether and how this submission advanced the […]

Republicans Have a Chance For a Great Start-If They Don’t Blow It

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Decades of institutional self-neglect have left Congress dysfunctional and unfit to fulfill its constitutional role as the most consequential branch of government. Government of the people has morphed into government by bureaucrats, by the executive, and by the courts. The decision-making mechanisms of the People’s House are broken. If you were fortunate enough to be […]

Dems Are Successfully Executing a Long-Range Strategy on the Border

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Pundits commonly depict the ongoing calamity at our border as the result of Biden administration incompetence. As with inflation, urban crime, and the deficit, their near-complete lack of insight and management skills is leading us over a cliff. But this analysis itself is a major error. They know exactly what they are doing, and they […]