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Ron Baron
Jul 24, 20214 min read
Feral Hogs Next Poster Child of Climate Alarmist
Having broken free from bondage, these critters are tearing up the world and contributing to our destruction according to the climate...
Ron Baron
Apr 27, 20211 min read
Why I Read John McWhorter
Mr. McWhorter is a very curious man. He is highly educated, a serious thinker, a gifted writer, and today he finds himself fascinated if...
Ron Baron
Apr 18, 20211 min read
When Taught What to Think
It is interesting to watch smart people ponder. Temples pulsate as the insufferably curious consider each big question. Some questions...
Ron Baron
Apr 9, 20211 min read
Believers and Enablers
Vanity Fair writer, Peter Savodnik, sees an interesting parallel between hunting for witches in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, and...
Ron Baron
Mar 31, 20211 min read
How Will Coyotes Howl Without Sheet Music?
Perhaps the spring winds have stirred microbes or distributed evaporated sun-dried neurotransmitter remnants and have resulted in a 'new'...
Ron Baron
Mar 18, 20211 min read
The Mask: Nanometers vs. Millimeters
If wearing a mask has provided you with security and confidence and reading something that questions those assumptions will make you...
Ron Baron
Mar 14, 20211 min read
Fear of Retaliation, Students Remain Quiet
Most parents remain quiet for the same reason. But now, gingerly and with great trepidation, a few parents are beginning to ask...
Ron Baron
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Food and Retirement
It was great being young! Eat anything in any quantity and your body took the abuse without complaint. If it did revolt, it would be...
Ron Baron
Feb 25, 20211 min read
The Elect: Woke Theology
It must have become uncomfortable. Finally, she blurted, "It's what I believe and that's all I'm going to say!" She may have grown...
Ron Baron
Feb 23, 20211 min read
The History of Forced Apologies
As children, we all remember when a sibling or friend demanded we apologize for a misdeed. If not, off to mother they waddle. Apologize...
Ron Baron
Feb 17, 20211 min read
Real Scientist Are Provoked by Boundless Curiosity
'Even Pontius Pilate claimed to be motivated by the truth' observes Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. And so too academia. But...
Ron Baron
Feb 15, 20211 min read
Boomers Taken to the Wood Shed
My notion that the generation of my grandparents, the 'greatest generation' somehow rubbed off making the 'boomer generation' nearly as...
Ron Baron
Feb 10, 20211 min read
The Virtues Necessary for Progress
It is humility, tolerance, and forbearance that Charles C. W. Cooke believes necessary to live in partisan harmony. These virtues, he...
Ron Baron
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Classics Cancelled: Too White
There is a growing movement in the academy, where term-papers littered with multi-syllabled words such as diversity and inclusion prove...
Ron Baron
Feb 2, 20211 min read
The Existential Threat Rabid Climate Alarmist Pose
"Yes, Peter, you are out of your mind." In a remarkably honest essay coming from a very woke, culturally correct media site, comes this...
Ron Baron
Jan 31, 20211 min read
Progressive Survivor, Alexander Solzhenitsyn Tried to Warn Us
English professor, author, and history buff, Louis Markos offers us his review of 'Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in...
Ron Baron
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Not Silent, Wokeness Has Begot Violence
In some sort of dystopian play on words, a popular street sign of the 2020 uprising was 'Silence is Violence.' There is a pleasing...
Ron Baron
Jan 26, 20211 min read
Courageous Somali Emigrant and the Uncomfortable Truth
When national policies of finding those willing to provide much needed cheap labor (masquerading as a compassionate global immigrant...
Ron Baron
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Vengeance: Time to Reread Illiad
Hector, born to a king and queen, a prince, and Troy's greatest warrior, is the protagonist of one of history's greatest stories- Homer's...
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