Chinese Checkers

What moves are the Chinese PLA planning? I have some knowledge of how things work in China. I spent several years working in China and know how closely aligned Chinese companies are with the Peoples Liberation Army (often the business cards I was handed had the company title on one side and the PLA officer…

The Establishment Empire Strikes Back

The new Utah GOP Party leadership must fight a two front war, with the enemy already inside the wire. Our media outlets here in Utah differ little from the national media when it comes to publishing fake news and misinformation – and their targets are the same – conservative, constitutionally grounded Republicans. Conventional wisdom would…

If it Walks Like a Duck…

In a special session yesterday, the Utah Legislature passed a resolution recommending Critical Race Theory (CRT) NOT be taught in Utah public schools. The language of the House version of the resolution, HR901, stated: “…the House of Representatives strongly recommends that the Utah State Board of Education review standards for curriculum and ensure the following…

Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory

Ending oppression by oppressing even harder. Intersectionality is a concept created in 1989 by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School. She coined the term to help explain the oppression of African American women. Presented in a paper for the University of Chicago Legal Forum titled, “Demarginalizing the…

Critical Basketball Theory

Modern basketball games are governed by the clock. When that final horn sounds, the game is over and whichever team has the most points is the winner – the other one loses. If it is tied, they go back to the clock, an overtime period is played and again, when the time runs out there…

Chicken or Egg?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or more to the point, does a particular type of society determine a national economic system or is it the other way around? I think history shows that free societies tend toward free economies. I am not aware of any “great capitalist revolution” prosecuted in the same…

Youth is Wasted on the Young

America is in the thrall of spoiled, immature, terroristic adult children – and paying the price for it. History can only be understood by looking in the rearview mirror, and as I look back over my life (spanning from 1959 to today), I believe that the 1960’s were the turning point for where we are…

Qualitative vs. Quantitative

Constitutional rights must not be subjected to emotional reasoning. By rule, our local paper, the Park Record, only allows submissions of letters to the editor or guest editorials from a single author but once every 30 days, therefore, I cannot respond to a letter directed toward a guest editorial a couple of weeks ago. It…

Reversing Alinsky

Pick the target. Unfreeze it. Depersonalize it. Depolarize it. Make them live up to their own rules. What do: Critical Race Theory Modern Monetary Theory Gender Fluidity Climate Change Social Justice Equity …all have in common? First, none of them make any logical sense on their own. Critical Race Theory claims to end racism by…

SkyGov and the Democrat Terminators

SkyGov became self-aware 57 years ago today. A couple of months ago, I was part of a discussion in which one of the participants, a very smart lady, said the reason conservatives lose is not just that we are not particularly good at playing the game, it is that we do not even know what…

Breaking the Cycle

I recently proposed that what BLM and the “anti-racists” believe is “systemic racism” is really the direct effect of government dependency. I have given a substantial amount of thought to this possibility and what follows is the result. The only substantive connection between white America and the anger of black America is the fact that…

The Ugly Truth

The entire BLM/woke/cancel culture breaks down to one least common denominator: Life isn’t fair. Never has been and will never be. Life has been defeated by those best equipped to fight it on their own terms. As racist as this sounds, black Americans have been domesticated. So many have been fed and sheltered by the…