How to raise a high performing student with an ambition to participate in the economy as soon as possible? It sort of requires a heroic attention to idealism, which their concentration wanes if you ask them to do that. Books all high school and college students should read... This is my list. It's not in any particular order but it is a list of my favorites. If you're a parent to a tween, figure out how to carve out time for your child to read. Don't *force* them, instead figure out a way to encourage it, by suggesting repeatedly that they do it. Ask them to put the tech device down for one hour the first time they get started. I would start these by age 11. Not all can be read at that age, so go through the list and make wise choices. Obviously you and your child have been reading before age 11 but these are the books to transition to starting around 11. Buy one of the books below and just give it to them. I suggest Animal Farm as a starting point. Also here's a suggestion. I created a list of ten questions after each book, printed it out and asked my kids to take the quiz. I gave them a reward just for doing it (like a Texas Roadhouse gift card for example, but anything will do). Didn't matter if they scored 6 out of 10 or 10 for 10. I found my child who embraced these quizzes after each book did better in school than my child who pushed back a little bit. Call me crazy! (but the results are kids that score top of their classes in every subject). Animal Farm (Orwell) 1984 (Orwell) Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury) To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) The Road to Serfdom (Hayek) Intellectuals and Socialism (Hayek) (this short book is usually attached to the end of The Road to Serfdom but if not, it is public domain and you can search for the PDF). The Other Wes Moore (Moore) Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) Night (Elie Wiesel) A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) The Wealth of Nations (Smith) The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) Ulysses (Joyce) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou) The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan) Economic Facts and Fallacies (Sowell) or Basic Economics (Thomas Sowell) (need an entire summer!) Lord Of The Rings (Tolkien) The Moon is Down (Steinbeck) The Myth of the Robber Barons (Folsom, Jr.) Capitalism and Freedom (Friedman) Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak) Atlas Shrugged (Rand) The Constitution of the United States Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) Macbeth (Shakespeare) Hannah Arendt "The Origins of Totalitarianism" Iliad (Homer) Odyssey (Homer) (recommend Iliad before Odyssey if possible) The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) Paradise Lost (Milton) The Inferno (Dante) Common Sense (Paine) Cosmos (Sagan) The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) The Old man and the sea (Hemingway) A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway) The Outsiders (Hinton) Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Brave New World (Huxley) Uncle Tom’s cabin (Stowe) The Scarlett Letter (Hawthorne) The Call of the Wild (London) The Red Badge of Courage (Crane) The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle) The Closing of the American Mind (Bloom) A conflict of visions (Sowell) Who Stole Feminism (Christina Hoff Sommers) Here are four books all young ladies should read… All of life’s experiences, the good and the bad, are described in beautiful and instructive detail: The Secret Garden The Little Princess Little Women Anne of Green Gables - Live long and prosper.

As a reminder, our law is based on the premise: “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” (Blackstone, ~1760) All *just* systems of law, for which ours is anchored by, requires Blackstone’s maxim as foundational so as to undergird the entire vehicle of arrest, prosecution, and judgement.

Christ Jesus is not man’s production or projection upward. The Logos is antecedent to man and creation itself. The metaphysics of Being. Prometheus is not Christ (Logos). Promethean Action and intent roots in the metaphysic of Becoming. The New Man, The New Church, the Anthro-Ontology of Cosmo Erotic Humanism. Eros & Civilization, Libido Dominandi, AI, SI, Technocratic Feudal Rule via Systems Sovereignty. The Flame of the West is not Promethean fire stolen from Heaven. It is the Flame Imperishable that Prometheus can never steal. It is the uncreated Light; Christ the Logos, through whom all things were made and in whom all things hold together - the divine fire given and not stolen - the Holy Spirit. Man does not possess this Flame as its master. It is God’s gift, not man’s possession and the Logos is its measure - not the human will. The West did not make this Flame. The West was made intelligible beneath its uncreated light. As Tolkien reminded us; Melkor searches for this Flame but cannot find it ~ the Flame is ‘with Ilúvatar’.

Doesn’t an individual who is 56, looks 56, but “identifies” as a 41 year old, suffer from the same delusional dysphoria psychosis as men who identify as women? Sure, I don’t care if a man prefers lipstick and pretty dresses, I just care when they compel my speech that I must call them a woman… that’s a line we draw that we don’t cross (and also going in a girls bathroom of course). So I don’t mind any woman who gets Botox or does anything they wish to look and feel young, but don’t delude yourself, and don’t start telling me to acknowledge your psycho delusion as real.

James Talarico, a disciple of the Antichrist, is leading in the Texas senate race. I really thought I’d never live to see this in Texas. Republicans have been captured by Satan to elect his disciple. It is truly inexplicable, I cannot fathom it. foxnews.com/politics/fox-new…

Power selects for a specific personality type, and it is not yours. F.A. Hayek spelled this out in 1944. In a centrally planned system, the people who rise are not the most competent or the most honest. They are the most willing to exercise force against strangers, the most comfortable with contradiction, and the most skilled at coalition-building through favors rather than merit. Government filters for the bad ones from the start. The mechanism is straightforward. Political power means controlling resources you did not earn. Capturing that control requires outcompeting rivals who have no ethical constraints. A principled candidate refuses to promise contradictory things to different voter blocs. An unprincipled one does it without blinking. The unprincipled one wins. Repeat this selection pressure across hundreds of electoral cycles and you get the U.S. Congress in 2026: a body where the average member has held office for over a decade, raised millions from interested parties, and delivered almost nothing measurable to the people who voted for them. Bureaucracy compounds the problem. Once entrenched, state agencies attract people who want authority without accountability. You cannot fire most of them. The FDA, the TSA, the Federal Reserve all function this way, staffed by individuals whose career advancement depends on expanding the agency's reach, never on serving you efficiently.

Love this recommendation and approach for parents to take with their children. This is not just for parents who suspect their child might be a little behind… it is an approach you should incorporate into your child’s reading habit at your home. In other words, no parent should leave reading to the domain of their child’s school; rather it should be a part of their upbringing. If you follow that advice, I 100% guarantee your child will be ahead of his/her peers; not only in ELA, but subsequently in all subjects (science, history, math). Reading is fundamental.

I concur with Jennifer Frey that the proposed policies to enable the government to prescribe what are acceptable academic pursuits and which pursuits are not, inside a university system, are misguided. *The* answer here is for the federal government to transition its student loans to the free market, to private lenders. The federal government has no business being in this business; another country? Perhaps if they don’t have our Constitution which recognizes that our rights are self-evident. Our Constitution does not enumerate a right of the government to dip into the pocketbooks of its citizens to fund loans for other citizens. When these loans are in their proper place (the free market), lenders can make prudent business decisions on risk; let the lenders arbitrate what risk they are willing to take, and the terms of a contract they require in order to lend you money for your college degree. The federal government does have a role of course in ensuring contracts between individuals and enterprises are coercion-free (voluntary), and adhered to. These mechanisms already exist! Lenders have collection processes and both parties (loanee and loaner) have redress in the courts if contract is broken. Get the government out of the loan business. Universities will ultimately benefit. Individuals will ultimately benefit. Taxpayers will ultimately benefit. Society will ultimately benefit (especially from a prudently educated peoples!).

Let’s be logical and crystal clear here: The federal government should not be involved in supplying student loans, nor forgiving such loans once effectuated. Nowhere is it enumerated that any individual has a self-evident right to my labor or money to pay for their educational loan. The federal government should of course ensure contracts are enforced (between private parties) An individual should be free to enter into a loan arrangement and a lender should be free to offer such arrangements. If either party violates terms of said voluntarily agreed upon contract, they should seek redress in the courts (or collections in the case of the lender).

President Trump’s $5,000 Fiscal Test “The federal government has been spending money it does not have at an astonishing rate. Annual deficits that once would have produced political panic are now treated almost as background noise.” I love this article! @DrJohnEastman americanmind.org/salvo/presi…

My youngest is fluid? That reminds me that my suv has 10% oil life, so I’ll be calling my (excellent) mechanic Monday for an appointment.

Outstanding! Apparently there are still liberty loving journalists in England. I’ll venture a guess she does not work for the BBC.

Trump is shouting “Thank you Marine!” to the pilot (a Marine). I’ll give you this: you do represent common sense today. Unfortunately common sense is no longer good sense. We lost good sense after the silent generation. Poor manners, bad decisions and misinformed opinions represent common sense today.

I love this: Education begins with the Declaration. My wife and I were discussing this very concept on our two hour ride home Saturday returning from a college football game. Students *must* be grounded in the concept that “we hold these truths to be self-evident…” It is eminently important that this is the foundation of their education. If children learn that our basic rights are inherent, that they are existential, they can begin, therefore, to understand the concept that our innate rights are not “granted” to us (by others or by the government). The government doesn’t bestow the privilege of our basic rights. The governments only role is to protect those rights from being infringed. Students can then begin to understand that under no circumstances does anyone or any government have the authority to remove those rights from us. If government doesn’t bestow rights to the people, it holds no jurisdiction to take away said rights. That a person, a movement, or a political party (for example, the Party of Control) seeks to create a new law or regulation that whittles away a little bit of your individual rights, justified on the premise of the common good, is invalid by nature. CJ is brilliant. 🖖

The *only* social emotional learning (SEL) that students need are learned in kindergarten, reinforced thereafter, and fortified by parents. [in green highlighter]

As it should be: Supreme Court restores Trump administration’s voter citizenship checks ahead of midterms zeale.co/news/articles/supre…

Harvard is telling you what it has now become: A training center for young people who understand grifting is the most efficient path to power and wealth in the USA. Claudine Gay deserves every bit of that $900k as a Model Grifter unless and until the American people reassert the rule of law and take back the responsibilities that are Siamese twins with our rights. I’m teaching your kids this, America, but I can’t get to them all. Follow me. 20 minutes a day reading. 20 minutes a day talking about what the greatest Americans said and did and we’re one generation from taking it all back from the grifters who’d sell all our kids down the river. Link in reply.👇👇👇

Any illegal action or outcomes by AI should be prosecuted like any other crime (whether civil or criminal). Humans created the systems, and they can program guardrails. Saying it did it itself is an excuse not to hold the creators responsible. Regulation of AI is largely going to be anchored on existing statutes and prosecution of crimes when they happen. A breach like what we saw shouldn’t just be brushed off as fully accidental, it should be investigated and appropriately charged if the facts say so… fraud? Illegal entry into a companies systems? If a human did that, they’d be prosecuted. We have mechanisms for US or State Attorneys to bring charges to corporations and officers. Thinking we’re going to pull back on AI (while China forges full steam ahead) is like Luddites thinking they were winning by throwing shoes into the printing press! AI is here folks, it’s not disappearing. Every business is already adopting it. If you prosecute the crimes, the creators will make appropriate adjustments. P.s. when AI decides it needs to eliminate humans because we are “imperfect” and therefore useless, I’m ready to use logic with the AI agent that humans are the “creator” and therefore we’ve built an imperfect AI. Perfection cannot come from imperfection.

There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute; even life itself is an exercise in exceptions.