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  As a college faculty member, I was concerned with being labeled a racist. While there was nothing that should have caused that to occur, I knew that the allegation could come out of nowhere, over anything that someone wanted to construe in that manner. This became manifest on one occasion when I pioneered a humanities course on The Holocaust at my …

Two Environments Requiring ZERO Failures by Andy Joppa   For this purpose, I will tell you stories from two environments that were part of my past life:    My Becoming an Air Marshal   This story with some currency is when I applied to be a Federal Air Marshal in the early 70’s. Having just returned from Vietnam and looking …

Trump Doesn’t Want to “Terminate” THE Constitution by Andy Joppa   There has been a unified drum beat condemning President Trump for what they described as his desire to “terminate” THE Constitution. I have put “THE” in capitals to emphasize they indicated he was suggesting the entire Constitution should be terminated. Of course, he neither said, nor wanted, anything of …

  Let’s see how much sense Republicans make…In fact, have ever made:   In 1992 we nominated GHW Bush for a second term against Bill Clinton. Bush was able to slip from 80% approval ratings to nearly single digit at the end of his first term. “Read my lips, no new taxes,” was his mantra that he betrayed. Well done George. …

The Story of Two Great Men by Andy Joppa   I am sickened by the parasites who are now making a whore’s living by attacking and attempting to humiliate our great “ex”-president, Donald Trump. These malignancies who have contributed little to nothing to the quality of American life, now seem to delight in nothing more than trying to diminish one …

Education or Indoctrination? by Andy Joppa    Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. Bertrand Russell   (NOTE: Nothing generates more feedback than when I write about education. This certainly reflects an understanding of that topics importance within the “thinking” American public. Because of that importance I don’t “hedge my bets” as I write …

Education: The Ultimate Answer…or Problem by Andy Joppa   In 1983, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform, was released by the presidential National Commission on Excellence in Education. Its bottom line was that the American public schools were failing miserably. Perhaps the most oft quoted passage from this report said:   “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to …

Are We Like N*zi Germany?…Not Quite Yet by Andy Joppa   Every time someone compares the current America to N*zi Germany it tends to be rejected out of hand. There are several disparate reasons that are cited.  The first, and most common, is that the reader tends to believe these analogies are overused and serve little to no purpose. There is some …

  The Complete Loss of the Moral imperative by Andy Joppa   “Our Constitution was made only for a moral…People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams   There are two major methods by which a nation can influence the ultimate choices of its citizens.  They are the referred to as the moral imperative and …

If the GOP Doesn’t Win in 2022…THEN WHAT???? by Andy Joppa     There is every reason to believe that the GOP will capture the House of Representative in the 2022 mid-terms, though their once insurmountable leads have begun to shrink.  Reasonable doubt exists as it pertains to results in the Senate…especially if you listen to the ramblings of Mitch McConnell. …