Wisdom

 

It is regrettable that our society has become so confused as to think that providing children with sexually explicit books is somehow virtuously upholding free speech.

Library Board Meeting Tonight

The Christian County Library will hold its monthly board meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at the Nixa branch. The formal removal of the American Library Association's presence in the policy handbook will be voted on tonight. Agenda HERE. The ALA is a subversive private organization that has great sway over many public and private libraries. Thankfully, more and more librarians are waking up to the insidious indoctrination it seeks to impose on our children and our culture.

Step-by-step, common sense is prevailing.

Ernest Meissonier. The Bibliophile. 1862

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

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 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