Wisdom from the ancients

 

Non refert quam multos libros, sed quam bonos habeas — “It matters not how many, but how good books you have” (Seneca) pic.twitter.com/5FEg1cwL5q

— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) September 21, 2025

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Counting the Cost

 

 Below is 'the actual cost of thoughts and prayers':

• Replacing the previous board of trustees
  
• Disassociating from the ALA
  
• Reworking the bylaws and updating policies to reflect proper governance
  
• Hiring of a new executive director
• Gaining dismissal with prejudice of a lawfare suit
  

The demons are howling and it is marvelous.

Today's college students

The professor does a good job of keeping it together. The comments in the thread are also revealing and interesting. Warren Smith is a treasure.

The day after Charlie Kirk's assassination, a professor shows his students how close a civil war could actually be... pic.twitter.com/BBKY8O8x86

— Warren Smith (@WTSmith17) September 18, 2025

What you meant for evil...

 

.@charliekirk11, you wanted to make Heaven crowded; and my friend you most definitely are! 🙏🏼 https://t.co/cPXT4tor7r

— Maureen Bannon (@maureen_bannon) September 17, 2025

It's a psyop operation

By Gretchen Garrity

Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed because he spoke. He was killed because young people listened.⁰Now his death is being weaponized. Beware the psy-ops—whether in schools or churches—that seek to impose beliefs instead of proposing truth in love. Parents, guard your kids.

Charlie… pic.twitter.com/nukNL6jq1i

— Alice Linahan (@Woodyboy2020) September 15, 2025

A year or more ago I spoke with Dr. Craig Carson, the assistant superintendent of learning in the Ozark School District. It was after a board meeting and I was discussing with him the possible abolishment of the Department of Education and what that might mean for federal funding in the local schools.

He said it wouldn't matter at all because federal dollars would continue to flow from other federal government agencies.

Dr. Craig Carson

He was right.

As Alice Linahan says in her article on Substack, "Even if the U.S. Department of Education were abolished, it would not matter. Funding now flows through multiple federal agencies--Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Labor, and the Department of Defense, as authorized under WIOA. The system is locked in place through what is now known as the P-20W pipeline--Preschool through Workforce."

Linahan details the "script that comes straight out of military psychological operations: isolate people, inflame their emotions, dehumanize the 'other side,' and then justify violence (U.S. Army Field Manual 3-05.301, Psychological Operations Process)" that has infected our schools, including here in Christian County.

Further, "Here is what I want every parent and citizen to understand. That same psyop-playbook is being run on America's children every single day in their classrooms. What is happening in our politics is shocking. What is happening to a captive audience of children in our schools is even more chilling."

I urge readers to read all of Linahan's article HERE. Everything she details, EVERYTHING, is happening in our local schools. Whether or not staff and school boards are aligned with the ideology behind this monstrous situation, they are trapped within the framework--the system--that shoves this stuff down students' throats.

Ask yourselves: If all these programs and systems were so good and helpful, why are student mental-health crises on the rise? Why are student scores drastically falling? Who lies to parents and shows them one thing while another thing is happening? Who is benefiting from this system?

A Turning Point Education

From: Turning Point Education

 Fight back against the indoctrination of the government school systems. Right now, you can order for free. Thank you Turning Point Education. Link HERE. Just add each curriculum course to your cart, making sure to add the discount code EDUCATION at checkout. A $275 value.

In honor of the Kirk family, Turning point education is letting you download their curriculum for free right now! #Homeschool #teachers
Use code: EDUCATION pic.twitter.com/glV6MvZ5Pm

— Blonde Musings 🇺🇸 (@musings_blonde) September 14, 2025

The Sponge of Vinegar and Gall

 

Sept. 14, 2025 vigil for Charlie Kirk in Ozark on the square

By Gretchen Garrity

I knew her demons would drive Professor Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk to another rant. Once you see the pattern…

She numbers her points, which I follow below. Her Facebook post HERE. Do read it before going on, as I select certain quotes to note for the sake of brevity.

1) Elizabeth said, “Please stop talking about 'us' and 'we' being 'brothers and sisters in Christ' to mourn a man who used a platform to engage divisive language for the purpose of gaining attention/money/followers…” She makes it clear that her Christ is not the Christ of the Bible. It is another Jesus. Woke Jesus. Do not be fooled: “For there shall arise false Christs…” (Matt. 24:24).

2) Elizabeth says, “Please stop trying to have things all ways, all the time, all at once. Either Kirk was a political figure and we SHOULD NOT hold memorial services on public school property, or he was not a political figure and memorial services do not need to be public.” Here she is squirming angrily over the fact that there have been vigils and memorials for a public figure on public property. She cannot abide that our public spaces are being used to honor a public figure...publicly. I wonder if she would have moaned about the public vigils for Martin Luther King Jr on public property, including the US Capitol. Imagine what she thinks about all the public memorial sites for him. Honestly.

3) She says, “Please do not tell me I am not patriotic because I do not think a flag should be flown at half mast for a non-political figure that never served our country in any way, shape, or form.” Here she attempts to diminish the impact that Charlie Kirk had on our citizenry. His patriotism and love for America, and his tireless work to impact young people to engage in the political process is another thing her Marxist ideological framework cannot abide. Tough. He did serve his country and his country is grateful. One can serve one’s country in a myriad of ways, and thousands of people from artists and writers to soldiers and politicians have been honored by our nation.

4) Elizabeth says, “Please stop telling me that academics are all about spreading their ideology. I wish I was.” The disingenuousness! The amount of Leftist institutional capture of our schools (from K through to university) is legion. It has been documented extensively. Elizabeth is lying to you. That is what Communists do. Communism is Satan’s religion, and Satan is a liar. The professor’s false piety is just silly. Way too late to fool us again.

5) Elizabeth writes, “Stop asking me to have empathy or sympathy for Charlie Kirk. I refuse to have EMPATHY because HE told me that empathy is a ‘made-up, new-age term that does a lot of damage.’” Elizabeth takes something Charlie Kirk said about empathy and twists it. Here is the context: . Again, she is lying in order to justify her disordered hatred against Charlie Kirk. As a Catholic, Elizabeth should know what a disordered passion entails.

 

6) Elizabeth next states, “I refuse to sit back and allow people to just continue to run over our freedoms.” She does not enumerate any freedoms that have been run over, but that is beside the point. The point is to state the assertion, and you, dear reader, are to assume it is true because the professor/expert told you it was true.

7) Here she says, “If you want to have vigils for whoever you want, you go right ahead, but stop saying they are for one individual and then when people ask why there weren’t vigils for the children, the victims of violence, the immigrants, the poor, the marginalized, respond “it’s for everyone.” NO. IT. ISN’T.” First, I don’t know who is having these conversations with her. I hope she reads this and points us to them. Elizabeth again attempts to suggest that every time there is a victim of violence, there should be a vigil for them, or something like that. With crime stats as they are, there would be vigils ongoing every day.

Perhaps we should build a chapel where we could light candles and pray for victims. Oh wait, that’s the local Catholic Church of which Elizabeth professes to be a member. No, what bothers her so much is the unprecedented outpouring of grief and love that Charlie Kirk’s death has brought forth. It galls her. Her words drip with it like vinegar on a sponge.

8) Getting down to brass tacks here. Elizabeth is a champion of civil civic discourse, but not Charlie? She writes, “I 100% believe in and support a civil civic discourse. Charlie Kirk DID NOT.” She “proves” this by again lying about his words on empathy. You have the video, watch it for yourself. She lies yet again. She accuses Charlie of not having goodwill. The arrogance! There are hundreds of videos of Charlie speaking with diverse people in a clear and calm manner—with goodwill. Elizabeth’s problem, like all communists, is that Charlie used logic and reasoning to defeat her ideology. Therefore, the only thing left for Leftists like her is to attack him personally and misrepresent him to her audience.

And lastly, she challenges readers, “Come at me, if you will, but do it understanding that this is my stage, my soapbox, I can delete comments, I can ignore, I can respond, I can direct the spotlight, I can engage in discourse, I get to control the narrative. See how that works?” Honestly, is she trying to say that her Facebook platform was in the same vein as Charlie’s public debates on college campuses?

He let anyone come up and speak and challenge him. He didn’t censor them as she is threatening to do. Professor Dudash-Buskirk, the champion of free speech, the maven of all things democratic and civic-minded threatening to delete, ignore, direct and control the narrative? God forbid!

Perhaps she should begin having campus chats and allowing anyone to come up to her and challenge her on politics. She’s a professor. She has the cozy platform at MSU. Go for it!

Folks, this is the moral state of the Left. Charlie ate your lunch and you will never forgive him for it. What is most needed for those who are under the thrall of the religion of Satan (aka Communism), is to repent. When convenient Elizabeth falls back on her Catholic bonafides. Her political ideals, no matter how she likes to coat them with “empathy” and “democracy” and “freedom” and “civil civic discourse,” are simply evil.

They debase humanity, they call for not freedom but political and economic slavery. Not moral freedom but licentiousness. They set white against black, male against female, Muslim against Christian. Her ideas carve us up into groups without a unifying understanding of humanity and nationhood.

Her political ideology would take from both rich and poor, and concentrate wealth and power among an oligarchy of soulless demons, who care nothing for human rights. In short, Elizabeth is a vanity-ridden intellectual who has for too long gone unchallenged. There are many like her. It’s time to respond to them with clarity and truth.

They’ve lost the battle of ideas. Their ideology was and is defeated through debate and dialog and civic discourse on college campuses and over dinner tables. And Elizabeth knows it. And so she lies about Charlie in order to assuage her fractured conscience and comfort herself that she is doing the right thing by stomping on the Man.

Well, the devil stomped on the wrong man. There is power in the blood of Jesus, and when evildoers spill the blood of one of His champions, you unleash a power you will never recover from. The best thing you can do is repent and come over to His side. Otherwise you will eventually end up wailing and gnashing your teeth with no peace and no hope in the world.

Amen. The Far Left Rhetoric Incites Violence

 

Behold...the art of persuasion

 

Endless vile depravity from the Left for anyone who doubts...

Two minutes of Democrat politicians calling Republicans fascists and encouraging violence: pic.twitter.com/Vlei8eec4A

— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) September 12, 2025

 

Charlie Kirk’s final blow was to force the woke demons and the transgender cult to reveal to the entire world just how utterly evil they are. They can’t put that mask back on now. The “empathy and love” scam is finished. pic.twitter.com/IpBZM8RdS7

— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) September 12, 2025

 

Here’s a congressional staffer who secures medals for veterans and their families reposting the message that @charliekirk11 was “a casualty of the violence he incited” and calling him a “nazi”. pic.twitter.com/RgUSecGDto

— Caleb Bonham (@CalebBonham) September 12, 2025

There is Power in Words

By Gretchen Garrity

The educated and sophisticated Left have run out of arguments to deny responsibility for the violence they incite. The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk has changed everything. There was a momentous shift in ways we cannot yet fathom.

As some on the Left continue to celebrate the murder of someone with whom they disagreed, other more reasonable individuals are working through the event in a more thoughtful way. MSU Professor Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk continues to opine on her Facebook page HERE. While I disagree with much of what she writes, it is a hopeful thing to see the admission that "empathy" must go both ways.

The long-time illogical idea that it's guns that kill has been modified to 'people with guns.' We moved them an inch, fellow thinkers. Celebrate!

But with that admission, the argument must deflect to a side issue, that of selective outrage. Professor Dudash-Buskirk cannot admit that certain speech, or as she says with her professor pants on--rhetoric--can sway people to commit acts of violence.

Of course rhetoric can move people to great good or great evil. Ask Edward Bernays. As someone who has "studied communication for 30 years," she is deeply aware that rhetoric has been used to inflame dissent, rally armies, calm a populace, etc.

 

The classical definition of rhetoric is simply the "art of communication," according to Sister Miriam Joseph, C.S.C., Ph.D. in her book "The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric."  Wikipedia defines rhetoric as the art of persuasion.

Professor Dudash-Buskirk writes in her latest Facebook post, "Get PISSED OFF at the gun violence, stop blaming the world for RHETORIC and start reflecting on the DEATHS.

What caused these? Rhetoric? NO. People with guns caused these." 

Methinks the good professor is justifying calling those with whom she disagrees "bigots" and other equally defamatory appellations. If it is true that rhetoric--the art of communication or persuasion--did not affect the beliefs and actions of people, why does the Left in academia cling so deeply to their rhetoric? In fact, most colleges and universities these days actively suppress any other views than those of the Left.

They suppress and mock and censor others because rhetoric has consequences.

Just now, because of the immense shift that has happened in this country since Charlie was martyred, she is calling for "mending [the] divide and understand the process of the two party system is based on PRODUCTIVE DEBATE, not violent division." 

Unfortunately, many people on both sides of the "two-party system," do not understand that there is only one party. It is the party of millionaires and billionaires and multi-national corporations and NGOs who some time ago usurped the two-party system. It is they who pull the strings and 'encourage' legislators to vote against their constituents time after time.

But back to rhetoric. 

Professor Dudash-Buskirk makes a call for outrage in all caps no less, "I AM CALLING ON ALL AMERICANS TO BE OUTRAGED AT THE DEATHS OF THE HORTMANS, CHARLIE KIRK, the attacks on PAUL PELOSI and PRESIDENT TRUMP, EVERGREEN HIGH SCHOOL, ANNUNCIATION SCHOOL, ANNUNCIATION CHURCH, and the FORTY-SEVEN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS…"

Note, that the professor deftly moves the issue from the spoken word to the selective outrage she claims is the problem. She equates the murder of the Hortmans to that of Charlie Kirk, who is magnitudes more well known than the murdered Minnesota state representative, and thus would naturally receive more attention. 

You see, vile rhetoric and incitement to hate isn't the problem. The problem is we all must be equally outraged at every act of violence.

The Oxford Learner's Dictionary defines "outrage" thusly: "To make somebody very shocked and angry." In an interesting twist, the etymology of the word means, "c. 1300, outragen, "to go to excess, act immoderately," from outrage (n.) or from Old French oultrager. From 1580s with meaning "do violence to, attack, maltreat." Related: Outraged; outraging."

In sending your sons and daughters to almost any university, parents are (unwittingly) paying to have their children radicalized.

— Larry Alex Taunton (@LarryTaunton) September 12, 2025

As a parent, I prefer that our children's professors do not use the rhetoric of outrage to influence them or anyone else. Toward the end of her Facebook post, she states (again in caps), "STOP TAKING THE EASY WAY OUT AND BLAMING RHETORIC. BLAME ACTORS AND ACTION..." 

Where does Elizabeth think the actors got the ideas for their actions?  The ether? When teachers and online 'friends' and bad actors and cultural Marxism all converge to spread hatred to other people groups, to demonize and dehumanize them, it is not surprising that political acts of great evil happen. We have seen this before throughout history.

The question for all citizens at this point: Will YOU dial down the hateful rhetoric? Will YOU refuse to dehumanize your political opponents? Will YOU seek truth regardless of where it leads? Will YOU be the model for civil dialog?

Who launched Mao’s bloody Cultural Revolution?

Radicalized students—the Red Guards. They quickly went from justifying violence to committing murder, leaving up to 20 million dead, including many of their own.

Who radicalized them? The Communist education system.

In America,… https://t.co/WQe2D6qW4N pic.twitter.com/tO7AgdLYAM

— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) September 12, 2025

 

The Unquenchable Fire

 

By Gretchen Garrity

While I believe the assassination of Charlie Kirk was from a state actor, the climate of division and hatred in our country has given political cover to the assassins. But, free speech is free speech even when lies and vile epithets from the Left are hurled at Christians and conservatives.

Yet, if I could ask one thing of those in our community who thought it was appropriate to call public servants and citizens with whom they disagree "white supremacists," "Christian Nationalists," "racist," "misogynistic," "inhumane," "criminals," "anti-education," "intolerant," "unsympathetic," "profoundly incompetent," "unethical," and on and on--it is to ask you to stop the incitement.

Charlie Kirk was willing to come into the lions' den, time after time to civilly debate with the Left. He was, in fact, deeply successful. And certain powers could not have the facade of the Left torn down in their own temples.

So they killed him.

Almost immediately, the powers recognized their mistake, for a vast spiritual charge rocked America. Not only have Christians felt it, but so have the occult powers. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church, as the Catholics say.

There is nothing hidden that shall not be revealed. Every leftist today is naked and shamed no matter their hasty words of "peace, peace." There will arise 10,000 Charlie Kirks now. It is unstoppable.

Nothing can prevent the truth from overcoming the lies.

While accountability for the unrelenting words of hate may not come in this world, it will come in the next. It is no good saying there is no such world to come. Justice will rain down one way or another. It is a law of the universe. Repent and believe the proclamation of the Gospel--it is the only way to be rescued. The lies of the Left are even now beginning to burn--an unquenchable fire.

Dante's Hell: Sandro Botticelli

— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) September 10, 2025

Requiescat in pace

Charlie Kirk

Photo: Gage Skidmore

The Red Schoolhouse Network

 Sam Britton's Missouri Liberty Radio will interview guest Dennita Miskimen tonight at 6 p.m. Link to the livestream HERE. Dennita is the founder of the Red Schoolhouse Network. According to Red School House's website, "She created a unique, faith based, one-room school experience where children thrive in learning their foundational academics in the morning, and their hands-on outdoor learning in the afternoon."

Dennita and her team are helping educators and parents across the country found their own one-room schoolhouses: "Partner with the experts at Red Barn Farm's School to make your dream a reality. We specialize in guiding educators through the process of opening successful Christian one-room schoolhouses. Leverage our experience and tools to skip the overwhelm and get up and running smoothly. Don't waste time reinventing the wheel – let us be your partner in building your school and supporting your journey, every step of the way."

The large and growing homeschool community in Christian County would be a perfect place to plant one-room schoolhouses. The livestream begin at 6 p.m. this evening. If you miss the live show, it will be available in the next day or so at Missouri Liberty Radio's archived shows on their webpage.

Dan Kleinman Interview

Excellent discussion about school and public libraries.