Unca Darrell

AUGUST 24, 2020 / Another thing to defund

EVERY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY that forces students . . .

AUGUST 17, 2020 / Common sense and moral clarity from . . .

. . . Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

SOMETIMES A LAW is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But . . .

AUGUST 14, 2020 / The Common Core disaster

Read it and weep.

For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s broadest and most respected test have dropped, a reversal of an upward trend between 1990 and 2015. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared . . .

AUGUST 13, Reason No. 3: Trump is better for public education

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY and secondary education should not be an issue in this or any other presidential election. In theory, our Constitution limits the the federal government to a list of enumerated powers, such as  providing for the common defense, borrowing money, regulating commerce with foreign nations, and so on. Public education is not on that list. The proper way to put it there would have been to amend the Constitution. Instead, President James Earle Carter, Jr., and his Democratic Congress simply created it out of thin air and set it into motion in early 1980. Now it's a done deal. Nobody has the courage to shut it down.

That being said, President Trump will do a  better job of running it than Mr. Biden. How do I  know?

 

AUGUST 12, 2020 / Williamson on systemic racism, white . . .

. . . supremacy, white privilege, capitalism, and other comforting abstractions.

MINNEAPOLIS is a Democratic city, with a Democratic mayor and a Democratic city council . . . in a state with a Democratic governor and a Democratic state house; these are the people who hire police chiefs and organize police departments, who specify their procedures and priorities, who write the laws that the police are tasked with enforcing -- Democrats and progressives practically to a man. . . . That's a lot of left power . . . but somehow, the bad guy in this story must be . . .

AUGUST 11, 2020 / Reason No. 2: Trump on right side, Biden wrong side, of battle for Western Civilization

UNCA D is no blogger-come-lately on Western Civilization. Since Day One, Unca D’s motto (top of page) has declared the author to be in love with it. One of Unca D’s “Big Ideas” (right column) says this:

There is such a thing as civilization, and among all other civilizations, present and past, none other measures up to Western Civilization. Those who seek to destroy the civilized order of things by, for example, piloting airliners into tall buildings, are dangerous. But they are less dangerous than . . .

AUGUST 5, 2020 / Let's defund the Houston Rockets

TODAY, UNCA D INTRODUCES a new feature: Stuff that Needs Defunding.

The inaugural defundee is the Houston Rockets. Why? Because . . .

JULY 31, 2020 / Kimbell: Systemic racism? No, no, no. Something different, something worse.

THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY, which ended nearly 150 years ago, has no bearing -- zero -- on the plight of American blacks today. What does affect them, mightily, is the destruction of the black family, a project brought to us by more than five decades of Democratic welfare policy

The PR surrounding Lyndon's Johnson's Great Society told the world its aim was to abolish poverty. [Its] actual effect was . . .

JULY 30, 2020 / What's happening at the federal courthouse in Portland . . .

and in many other cities governed by Democrats is not protest or even rioting. It's more. It's . . .

JULY 8, 2020 / Shelby Steele: Blacks have never been less oppressed

[IN] MANY WAYS IT'S ABOUT POWER. In order to pursue power as they do, you have to have victims. Wow, the excitement that creates on the Left. It validates their claims that America is a wretched country, and they must get their recourse. It feeds this old model . . . that America is guilty of racism, guilty of this sin, and has been for 400 years, and minorities are victims who are entitled.

So when people start to talk about systemic racism, built into the system, what they’re really doing is . . .