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What Libertarians Believe = What Libertarians Don’t Know

  06/28/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I am using ‘libertarian’ loosely, applying it to any economic political thinking that believes everyone thrives if everyone is on his own. Mitt Romney is (Continue Reading)

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Uncle Joe Stalin, Mary Trump’s Uncle Donald, your Uncle Harry

  03/31/2023       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Uncles have a bad reputation. They are blowhards. Their claims ring from the roof tops. Whether car stereos or nuclear medicine, they know all about (Continue Reading)

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Up-date on the old M.O.

  09/24/2022       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My Magnum Opus is devolving into a series of entries on a variety of topics. Eventually I will have to go over all of them (Continue Reading)

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Whence sprang Liz Cheney?

  07/29/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Luke Skywalker sprang from the loins of Darth Vader; Liz Cheney sprang from the loins of Dr. Evil. How does one explain this?Cheney is a (Continue Reading)

Basics, Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024

MSNBC DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE JULY 27, 2021

  07/27/2021       Pat Barrett      4 Comments

Nicolle Wallace, host, moderates as Matt Dowd and Eddie Glaude reflect on the testimony of Capitol Police Officer during the Jan. 6 Insurrection hearings. Nothing (Continue Reading)

Basics, Politics 2016/2022 running blog Corona Delta/Omicron & whatever's next-edition 2024, View from under the Bus

What I’m proud of

  05/23/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A number of things plus some I’m not so proud of. But one thing these days that stands out is the way I insisted my (Continue Reading)

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1619, Roadmap to Democracy, teaching history

  05/09/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

No doubt this is well-trod ground, going by the name no doubt of the inquiry method or some such. It is frequently used by teachers (Continue Reading)

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Is diversity all it’s cracked up to be?

  12/27/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

After about four decades of hearing people declare diversity to be our greatest strength, I have to ask how that works out. What are the (Continue Reading)

Basics

Do we have to hold together?

  09/22/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I usually don’t combine Basics and Politics but a book just came out surveying empires across the world and suggesting the collaps of the Roman (Continue Reading)

Basics, Politics

We the Who?

  07/10/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the (Continue Reading)

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Building blocks of society

  11/24/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Rather than a death by a thousand cuts, the sabre is better. You can either dodge, deflect, or be quicker with your saber. Or, you (Continue Reading)

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A historian describes my city in the 1950s

  07/20/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Like many emerging American cities at the time, Phoenix’s spectacular growth did not occur evenly. It largely took place on the city’s north side, a (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Basics

Start with the basics – a history lesson

  07/14/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

U.S. History, First Semester, first day of class We start with documents, the stuff of history. We have foundational documents. One is the Declaration of (Continue Reading)

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Essence of clear thinking based on science

  06/07/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

From Nadine Burke-Harris’ The Deepest Well, p. 171: “Toxic stress is a result of a disruption to the stress response. This is a fundamental biological (Continue Reading)

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So you think you’re not prejudiced?

  04/10/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Being married to a Black woman for 55 years about often gains me a pass on racial prejudice as a White man. Wrong. Just today (Continue Reading)

Basics, Culture

Down to basics, KIng

  01/11/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Once in a while, a public figure makes a bold statement that tears away the veil of gentility and exposes what one might call “deep (Continue Reading)

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How history class dumbs us down

  10/21/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Lies My Teacher Told Me is filled with eye-opening vignettes of how textbooks for high school students distort the history of our country. Faced with (Continue Reading)

Basics, What I'm Reading Now

The Grand Theory

  10/05/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Francis Fukuyama was on C-SPAN the other day talking about his book on identity politics and I started reading an article by him on the (Continue Reading)

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How Our Government Works

  09/11/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This title sounds like the title of a high school civics textbook. It should because a basic civics lesson is missing in the minds of (Continue Reading)

Basics, Politics

Here’s what I wanted to write……

  08/09/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My friend who is knowledgeable about international politics gave me his copy of May/June Foreign Affairs. It’s Board of Advisors has one of my favorite (Continue Reading)

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I’m struggling with something

  08/06/2018       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

I’ve started reading Lies My Teacher Told Me. I’ve experienced a perspective shift. Others, according to the preface to the book, experienced the same sort (Continue Reading)

Basics, Magnum Opus, Pat's World View, What I'm Reading Now

Limited thinking

  08/02/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s an example of limited thinking on the part of educated people. Supposedly “uncivilized” people were barbaric and given to violent warfare. The evidence is (Continue Reading)

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What are we dealing with? Why counselors for kids?

  07/23/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The local newspaper has an article on services for students as they return to school. Some are new and some are extensions of existing programs (Continue Reading)

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