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Jeanne Allen’s Important New Book Profiles Everyday Heroes of Education | National Review
Jeanne Allen's "The Education Avengers" profiles school-choice advocates, educators, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists challenging entrenched education systems and building alternatives focused on academic rigor, character, parental agency, innovation, and student success.
David Bahnsen’s ‘Profit from the Profit on Dividend Growth Investing’
Kudos to David Bahnsen on the formal publication date of his important new book, Profit from the Profit: The Past, Present & Future of Dividend Growth Investing.
This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made
Dear Intelligent American, Happy Independence Day to all as we mark the semiquincentennial of this great and grand Republic, this last best hope of earth, as Mr. Lincoln so rightly described the project that commenced in 1776. This missive is mailed on a Friday—which is July 3rd. Like the Fourth, it is an important day in our history: On a field in Pennsylvania on this day in 1863 the fortunes of America hung in the balance.
Daniel P. Oliver, R.I.P.
It was an honor and a privilege to stand alongside Oliver on the barricades.
The Shapiro Education-Reform Sellout Continues in Pennsylvania | National Review
Pennsylvania Democrats are targeting charter schools and scholarship programs despite broad public support for school choice. America needs to know why - and what it says about Governor Josh Shapiro.
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Dear Intelligent American, It’s a tad exhausting, these articles (BREAKING NEWS! EXCLUSIVE!) that a peace deal is happening by noon, or that the crack team of negotiators is off to Timbuktu to broker the surrender that’s THIS CLOSE . . .
EXPOSED: Taxpayers Paying for Democrat Activists’ Grad School Tuition
Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government. The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
There’s a Crisis Facing Young Men But There’s Also a Simple, Old-School Solution
Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government. The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
Historic San Diego parish opens new center to help immigrants
Brinkley Johnson, founding manager of the Pope Francis Center, greets visitors after Mass Jan. 11, 2026, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in the Barrio Logan neighborhood of San Diego. The parish opened the center at the church to assist immigrants. (OSV News photo/Charlie Neuman, courtesy Diocese of San Diego) Immigrants have worshipped at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church since it opened its doors more than 100 years ago in San Diego, starting with exiles fleeing the Mexican Revolution.
U.S. bishops praise expansion of Mexico City policy
A statue of Jesus is carried past the U.S. Capitol during the annual March for Life rally in Washington Jan. 24, 2025. (OSV News photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters) Three chairmen of committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops praised Jan. 30 the Trump administration's recent expansion of the Mexico City policy, which prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that perform elective abortions overseas, to include U.S.-based NGOs operating abroad.
Ivy League Prof: ‘Black Lives Matter Was Created From a Fabrication’
Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government. The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
I’ve Got a Little List
Dear Intelligent American, This communiqué frequently addresses America’s higher-education problems and challenges, but sometimes there is good-and-interesting news to share.
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It Ain’t Necessarily So
Dear Intelligent American, The DOGE investigation of the rank and file of Social Security finds that somehow there are two people on the infamous rolls who were born in the . . . 1660s. Say what?! And they are just a speck amongst the 12-million-plus who are supposed to have been born while Teddy Roosevelt was president, or earlier (for example: 866 are youthful contemporaries of little Abe Lincoln).
Would Bill Buckley yell ‘stop’?
The year 2025 marks the centenary of modern conservativism’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr. But given the takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump, whether conservative still means what it once did is an open question. In these times it’s natural to ask: What would Bill have to say?
Would Bill Buckley yell stop?
By Jack Fowler Real Clear Wire The year 2025 marks the centenary of modern conservativism’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr. But given the takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump, whether conservative still means what it once did is an open question. In these times, it’s natural to ask: What would Bill have to say?
Would Bill Buckley Yell Stop?
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Would Bill Buckley Yell Stop?
The year 2025 marks the centenary of modern conservativism’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr. But given the takeover of the Republican Party by Donald Trump, whether conservative still means what it once did is an open question. In these times it’s natural to ask: What would Bill have to say?
Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Dear Intelligent American, This past Tuesday was the Third of September, which, as Motown songwriter Norman Whitfield recounted, was a day to remember, because that was the day when his “daddy died.” When asked about this never-to-be-seen progenitor, his momma gave the blunt description: "Son, Papa was a rolling stone, wherever he laid his hat was his home, and when he died, all he left us was alone.” Which may be the reality of many readers of this missive.
Higher Ed, Higher Power
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‘Parallel Economy’ Is So Unrealistic It Would Not Work Even in a Parallel Universe
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Autonomous trucking a pathway to increased energy efficiency in freight claims white paper
Self-driving company Aurora says that optimised driving and off-peak deliveries could cut emissions Could autonomous trucks cut emissions in this mode of transport by a third? That’s the claim being made by Aurora Innovation, a self-driving technology company, which laid out in a white paper that they think that autonomous trucks can improve energy efficiency over traditional trucks by up to 32%. What makes them more efficient?
Investment in US and European supply chains rising strongly in 2024
Investment in US and European supply chains rising strongly in 2024 By on Average investment into supply chain improvement over the last year tops $10 million per company says research Seventy-nine percent of US and European executives report that they are upping their investment into supply chain operations, compared to just 4% who are making cuts according to a survey by Blue Yonder.
Reuters Events | Supply Chain & Logistics Business Intelligence
Amazon Logistics sees major gains in 2023, report finds By on Report finds industry in flux as Amazon Logistics and smaller carriers grew strongly, but parcel revenue fell for the first time in seven years A report from Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE) found that Amazon Logistics was the only one of the four major carriers — USPS, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon Logistics — to report parcel volume growth from 2022 to 2023 in the US market, expanding by 15.7%.
Do you wish to receive Civil Thoughts?
Each week, into the ether Civil Thoughts will be projected, intent on sharing a smart gathering of a dozen or so pieces and essays and articles that touch on various facets of our civil society and the givers, doers, and thinkers doing some heavy lifting in that arena. They’re nothing more than recommendations, but of pieces and essays and articles (one or two, a few, maybe most, possibly even all) that may prove of keen interest, and that will stimulate your thinking. Anything else? Nope.
“I Thirst”-Would You Offer Him a Drink?
The story told is that the sky grew unusually dark at midday. But then, this was like no other day, before or since. Atop Golgotha, Jesus of Nazareth (Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum, the placard declared), hung and nailed, had endured excruciating torment. The hours of agony played out against a background of insults (“the rulers scoffed at him . . . the soldiers also mocked him”), contempt (“those passing by reviled him”), and unseemly acts (“for my clothing they cast lots”).
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