FIRST PRINCIPLES--REDUX

Ideas rooted in truth can be build upon, like the gospel and great societies.

Sunday, June 11, 2017

Clarity in Warfare: A Luxury We Rarely Get

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I watched this video the other day from General Mattis USMC before he became Secretary of Defense. In it he waxes poetic on the natu...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Don't 'Beggar Thy Neighbor'

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The agitation on his face was clear. This youth football coach had seen and heard enough in his years. This day he was in a bit of huff...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Memorial Day: the Big Picture

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I noticed this piece on the CATO institute website  by David Boaz. I think the author is sincere in his sentiments toward the fallen on M...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

Chris Cornell: The Days He Tried to Live

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The easiest way to cover artists/writers/musicians who die too soon is autobiographically-or ‘how I remember it’ style. I could rehash ...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Manchester United?

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Enough with the silly arm in arm marches against ‘terrorism’. Enough with the hashtag grief signaling and kitschy Facebook memes that co...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

"Greatest Show on Earth"

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Institutions that surrender control over part of their industry give up direction for all of it.  The University of Illinois in Champa...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Tough Times in OK

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When the usual means of funding run short local churches become the lifeline with food, medicine and shelter. Oklahoma is in such a st...
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This blog is an effort to improve my writing and sharpen my focus on current events and issues that concern me. It already feels very scatterbrained and lacks a unifying theme except for one. I process all my ideas and beliefs through first principles or basic assumptions about human behavior. I imagine this blog will take a different shape a year from now but I can't imagine what the focus will be. In the process though, I'm learning to be a better researcher and writer. That is enough for now.
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