A basic premise of the American system, going all the way back to the Founding Fathers, was an educated population.
People weren't expected to be scholars. However, the Founders required a literate and moral population to make their great government experiment work. And that is what they got – while that is what we haven’t.
Kamala Harris' problem isn't race or gender.
True, those are the two excuses that she and her supporters have brought out to explain everything from her humiliating failure in the primaries to her humiliating failure on the world stage during her big international trip.
But no one is buying either of them. The fact is, aside from her self-inflicted problems, and there are many of those, Kamala has no constituency. She’s the girl everyone hates.
County Sheriff pushback against the 2nd Amendment's death by a thousand cuts proponents:
Utah's 29 Sheriffs Vow to Protect 2A Rights from Federal Gun Controls
“This is the peaceful and effective solution millions of Americans have been praying for to take back America county by county and state by state.” A peaceful revolt in support of the Bill of Rights, and it has just started:
#UNRIG: Two Nevada Counties Go Constitutional, Reject COVID-Fueled Government Tyranny
“Touch the ballots, go to jail,” Arizona AG warns Federalies attempting to intimidate Arizona election auditors:
'Touch The Ballots, Go To Jail': AZ Lawmaker Warns Biden AG As Audit Showdown Brews
I showed this picture to my mother after my latest sojourn with the Afghan Mujahaddin fighting the Soviet Union and she didn’t see anything unusual. She didn’t recognize her own son standing in the middle. Good thing – if I had been caught by the KGB or Spetsnaz, it would have been, ahh… unpleasant. I was there with the “Muj” at least a dozen times until they defeated the Soviet Red Army in early 1989 – which led to the Fall of the Berlin Wall eight months later and the extinction of the Soviet Union itself by the end of 1991. It was one of the most thrilling – and consequential – adventures of modern times. ( Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #80 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
The extraordinary rock-cut necropolis known as the Hypogeum (hi-po-gee-um) is the only prehistoric underground temple in the world. For over a thousand years (3500-2500 BC), the temple and burial complex (eventually housing 7,000 skeletons) was carved out and down – dozens of chambers, with rock-cut replicas of above-ground temples including simulated corbelled roofs. (A corbelled roof uses stone slabs that progressively overlap each other until the room is roofed over.)
The Megalthic Maltese learned to cut from the limestone bedrock with tools of stone and antler horn for they had no metal. These folks figured out all by themselves how to build extraordinary temples to their gods and goddesses close to six thousand years ago. Nobody taught them. They were the first. Only one reason Malta is one of our planet’s most fascinating places. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #109 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
This astounding road is how you traverse the Dades Gorge on the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs in Morocco. Kasbahs are fortified villages of the Berbers, who have lived here since the end of the Ice Ages 12,000 years ago (related to the Lapps of the Scandinavian Arctic, both descending from Cro-Magnon hunters in Cantabria of northern Spain).
The road is rated as one of the most scenic drives in the world. It is in the High Atlas Mountains (once higher than the Himalayas and joined to the Appalachians in the northeast US before splitting apart to form the Atlantic Ocean 200 million years ago). Here you go from the sand dunes of the Sahara to the fabulous kasbahs of Skoura, Ouarzazate, and Ait Benhaddou. The drive is one of the many life-memorable experiences we have in our exploration of Moroccan Magic. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #110 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
Baihanluo Catholic Church is the remotest Christian Church on earth. The isolated village is in a roadless region high on a Himalayan mountain ridge deep in “The Great River Trenches of Asia” – one of our planet’s most dramatic geological features where four major rivers – the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, and Yangtze all spill off the Tibetan Plateau coursing south in tight parallel for 100 miles.
In the late 1800’s, French Catholic missionaries made their way far, far up the Mekong from the French colony of Laos to befriend the Nu and Lisu tribespeople up here. They responded by building this beautiful wooden church that has been lovingly cared for by the local parishioners ever since.
I led an expedition traversing all three of the great trenches twenty years ago (2001). We were welcomed so warmly by the devout villagers. It’s hard to get more remote than this, yet they have retained their faith for at least four generations now. You can imagine how powerful and experience it was to be with them. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #138 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
On either side of the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar there are two small mountains known since great antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules. The pillar on the northern, European side is the famous Rock of Gibraltar. That on the southern, African side is Mount Abyla, Phoenician for “lofty mountain.”
The legend for the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans was that Hercules pushed the two pillars apart to join the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. We think today of Hercules as a comic-book bodybuilder, while the truth is opposite. The entire ancient Mediterranean world very seriously worshipped him. For the Phoenicians, he was Melqart, King of the Earth. For the Greeks, he was Heracles, Divine Protector of Mankind. He was the same for the Romans, who pronounced his name as Hercules.
The Phoenician trading port of Abyla has a history of 3,000 years, from Phoenician to Carthaginian to Roman to Byzantine to Christian Visigoths to Islamic Berbers to Portuguese – and since 1668 to Spain, which continues to govern it today as the Spanish Autonomous City of Ceuta on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco.
Ceuta is a charming European city with beautiful beaches, open air cafés with great sangria, very relaxed and pleasant. It is here you find the statue of Hercules separating his Pillars commemorating the legend pictured above. Easy to get to with high-speed ferries from Algeciras near Gibraltar, Ceuta is definitely worth your while to experience. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #137 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
On today’s (6/11) TTP, Victor Davis Hanson plaintively asks when will “enough be enough” for there to be a public rebellion putting an end to the Commie-Fascist Woke madness engulfing our country.
Such a rebellion never starts across-the-board, but will always start over a specific issue, a concrete target in particular. That’s what happened this week. It’s been building for a while, but now we have liftoff.
And it’s just one example of what a terrible week this has been for America’s domestic enemies. You’re going to enjoy this….
This is the start of a new TTP series on Mondays entitled The Father-Son Adventure. It will be intermittent between additional editions of our Keeping Your Sanity series. It’s frankly to enable me to finish my book with the same title, and I really hope you enjoy it.
We begin today with a short Dedication, Prefatory Note, and a setting-the-stage episode too short to be called a chapter. Next week will be Chapter I: Four Words That Changed My Life.
To Rebel, my wife, my life partner, my best friend, and mother of our two sons. I could only have taken our boys, starting when they were so young, on the extraordinary series of adventures we had together with her approval and encouragement. Rebel so deeply understood the life-long value of what these experiences would mean to them. It is with the deepest gratitude, appreciation, and love that this book is dedicated to her.
Prefatory Note
I am a father blessed with two sons. As a man, I can never be a mother like my wife, and we never had a girl, only our two boys. I would encourage other fathers with either boys or girls, and mothers with sons and/or daughters, to write of the adventures with their children. This is the story I have had with mine. It is written in the hope of inspiring all parents to make of their life with their children a thrilling adventure.
On June 6, 1944, the United States and its British and Canadian allies launched a long-awaited invasion of the northern European mainland, landing on five German-held beaches in Normandy. The invasion came just two days after U.S. troops liberated Rome and nearly four years to the day after the British had fled the continent from Dunkirk.
At last, the Allies were on the offensive—and, less than a year later, Adolf Hitler killed himself in his bunker in a Soviet-besieged Berlin and the war in Europe was over.
So in the Spirit of D-Day, it’s time to man up and fight – this time against the enemies inside our gates determined to destroy America.
[Yesterday (6/08), a respected and popular English teacher resigned from the faculty of Dwight-Englewood School, an elite college-prep school in New Jersey, costing from $30,000 for pre-school (ages 3 & 4) to $52,000 from Grade 6-12. This is her letter in rebellion against the school’s poisoning her students’ minds with the anti-white racism of Critical Race Theory. It is a terrifying condemnation of what is being done to an entire generation of America’s youth across America.]
LETTER OF RESIGNATION Englewood, New Jersey June 8, 2021
Dear Joe [Algrant, Upper School Principal] (copies to Head of School, Board Trustees, & English Department Colleagues),
I became a teacher at Dwight-Englewood because, as a parent, I loved how the school both nurtured and challenged my own children. Today, I am resigning from a job I love because D-E has changed in ways that undermine its mission and prevent me from holding true to my conscience as an educator.
Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.
Yet most of these silly revolutionaries were not unhinged Weathermen killers or SDS would-be Communists, but just adolescents along for the good-time ride. The ’60s were at heart a narcissistic free-for-all when “freedom” just meant self-indulgence and avoiding responsibility.
But today, a half-century after the 60s, this time around their offspring’s left-wing assault is different—and vastly more ominous. Let’s itemize the ways they are turning the American Dream into a dystopian Nightmare.
Think about it: For about five years, anything candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion.
The result? In the Left’s uncontrolled aversion and detestation, they suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality—and hundreds of thousands of Americans died as a result.
Just as pathological, they don’t care at all. They have no remorse whatever.
