Van Harvey

Author: Van Harvey

A Declaration of Reascendance

May 15, 2013

A Declaration of Reascendance In 1776, our Founding Fathers faced a crisis of tyranny in their own government, and lacking our good fortune of having them in their past, they[...]

Education · Government · Individual Rights

Question: What to do with those who ask what to do about the parents? Common Core State Standards pt. 5

May 6, 2013

Question: What to do with those who ask what to do about the parents? These posts have not been about the material that makes up the Common Core Curriculum itself[...]

Education

If Govt is reckless with money that’s not theirs, just imagine how they’ll treat your human capital (aka:children) – Common Core State Standards

May 3, 2013

After attending our local Common Core ‘presentation’ by Missouri’s DESE, I’ve only time for a brief pre-post post. This picture (H/T Adam Bohn) of the only informational hand out that[...]

Government · Individual Rights

The Common Core Curriculum: The Royal Lie pt.4

April 15, 2013

How is the Common Core Curriculum put across with a straight face? Even disconnected as most people are from the doings of their school boards (by the structure of their[...]

I will give up my rights... I will give up my rights...

Education · Government · Individual Rights

The Common Core Curriculum: Popular new answers to the same old question pt.3

April 14, 2013

So over the last two posts (here and here) we’ve seen that our current Common Core Curriculum efforts share in a 2,500 year history of ideas and events that demonstrate[...]

Education · Government · Individual Rights

The Common Core Curriculum: Questioning the goals of the questioners pt.2

April 9, 2013

The Common Core Curriculum has plans, not only for your children, but, as we began looking at yesterday, for you parents out there as well. What are those goals, and[...]

Education

The Common Core Curriculum: New answers to a very old question pt.1

April 8, 2013

There’s an interesting core issue which the Common Core Curriculum, CCSSI, Race To The Top, CSCOPE and all the other latest variations upon the theme have in common; they all[...]

Government

It’s the Show Me state – what more do we need to do to show you that when we said No to Obamacare, we meant NO!

March 4, 2013

This is not the way I like to wake up in the morning, discovering that my state senator, Tom Dempsey, is introducing legislation to expand medicaid and usher in Obamacare[...]

To Protect And To Serve... raw, medium or well done?

Individual Rights · Liberty in Action

To protect and to serve… rare, medium or well done?

February 19, 2013

To protect and to serve… rare, medium or well done? If you grew up watching “Dragnet” & “Adam-12″, or even today’s “Southland”, the motto you probably associate with the police[...]

Individual Rights

Assaulting ‘Assault Rifles’ is for sissies – arm your mind – The 2nd Amendment meets Saul Alinksy’s lucky number #13 – Part 3

January 31, 2013

In today’s permissive society, modern conservatives have become a target rich environment for the Alinskyite, whose 13th rule (“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.“) has been[...]

Individual Rights

A Tale of two talks upon the 2nd Amendment – The 2nd Amendment meets Saul Alinksy’s lucky number #13 – Part 2

January 24, 2013

I have a friend who disagrees with the point I made in my last post, that you shouldn’t answer disingenuous questioners, such as Piers Morgan, when you are aware that their questions[...]

Individual Rights

The 2nd Amendment meets Saul Alinksy’s lucky number #13 – Part 1

January 20, 2013

Some interesting points have come up in discussions with friends, other conservatives, leftists and other internet nincompoops, regarding the 2nd Amdt; what it is, what it means, and what it[...]

Government · Individual Rights

The target is not the 2nd Amdt, or the 1st Amdt, but all of your Rights at once

January 17, 2013

Ah. Another wacademic professor of law, struts his stuff in the White House. It remains to be seen whether or not we can survive the lessons they’ve been teaching us,[...]

Featured · Government

Jay Carney’s vicious, blood thirsty comment: “If even one child’s life is saved…”

January 16, 2013

A quick rant in reply to this ass of a Press Secretary, Jay Carney, speaking on gun control: “JAY CARNEY: If these things were easy, they would have been achieved already.[...]

Education · Individual Rights

There are no ‘reasons’ for your Rights – stop trying to justify them!

January 12, 2013

How many times have you heard this one recently? “Tell me one good reason why you should have an assault rifle?!” More than a few times? And I’ll wager you’ve[...]

Government

Here’s one message conservatives do need to hear

January 1, 2013

There was only one undeniable issue in the last election, one issue that was the true cause of Obama winning, and the effects of it are to be found, not[...]

Government

A New Year’s Message: Stop ‘reaching out’ and start reaching in

January 1, 2013

Since the November election, in conservative gatherings, large and small, in the media and one on one, I’ve heard one consistent point that everyone seems to agree upon; not addressing[...]

American History · Government

Have you thought about what ‘What you mean’, means?

June 22, 2012

Do you know what ‘what you mean’ means? Have you thought about it? Recent conversations happening at my periphery have ranged from ‘let govt give Presidential Candidates $500,000, 2 months[...]

American History · Government

Republic vs. Democracy – is it just semantics?

June 7, 2012

You of course know about the Proregressive Left getting trounced in the Wisconsin recall (re-run) vote Tuesday night, you might even know how seriously cheesed off the left is about[...]

Education

Eclipsing Justice

May 21, 2012

So, did you see the eclipse yesterday? No, no, no… not the intriguing but irrelevant light show in the sky, I mean the dark show that played out on our[...]