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Yes, this is a true story from the American frontier. I got it first-hand from my grandmother who was there as the young schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse. All kids brought guns every day. And so did their teacher. Find out why, and find out how they were able to pass exams with questions like the following at age 14:
· If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts. Per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
· Name the parts of the Bill of Rights and explain which rights they protect.
· Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
· Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
· What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per square meter?
· Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
· What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
· Relate the causes and results of the...
I want to just say a word about what the subject [of Epstein] really is, because the congresswoman is, of course, representing the Democratic party’s view of this president. But really the Epstein files and the revelations that they contain are an indictment of an entire class of depraved bureaucrats, whom Donald J. Trump, our president, has admitted to impunity in our political system and authority.
Apparently these people can get away with anything. And this is precisely the issue, the issue of the abuse of wealth and power that got Donald J. Trump elected. He somehow convinced the public that he was on the side of those who demanded accountability from those in power. It’s interesting to me that the best the Democrats can apparently come up with is an assault on Trump personally, probably reflecting his unpopularity. But this is a broader issue. It’s about our whole political class that is indicted by these revelations.
-- Charles Freeman
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has condemned Brussels’s reported plan to fast-track Ukraine into the European Union by 2027 as ‘an open declaration of war’ against Hungary. He warned that proposals to remove his veto—through electoral change or stripping Hungary’s voting rights—amount to a direct assault on national sovereignty and democratic choice.
Joakim Scheffer
— 11.02.2026
The first jihadist assault conquered Spain in the 8th Century AD.
From Spain the Muslims launched a campaign to defeat France, and then the rest of Europe. But French and other allies stopped the Muslim armies at Tours in 732 AD. Without Charles Martel as the defending commander, Europe almost certainly would have been lost.
In 1683 the Muslims again assembled an army big enough to attack all of Western Europe, this time from the East. Vienna would be gateway in. Vienna was besieged, outnumbered, and near defeat and capture.
But another military hero, John III Sobieski, the Polish Christian king, rallied the militaries of several European kingdoms and routed the Muslims, who fled in retreat. Europe was saved again. But was Sobieski honored for this? Almost. A 26-foot high statue commissioned to memorialize the hero, and the need to confront Islam. But for years the statue has been hidden in storage in Poland. Why? Because Viennese politicians fear that honoring a man who ...
