FILE – Primatologist Jane Goodall kisses Pola, a 14-months-old chimpanzee baby from the Budapest Zoo, that she symbolically adopted in Budapest, Hungary, on Dec. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)
Outside the Field Museum in Chicago, a bronze sculpture by artist Marla Friedman captures a moment a friendship was made.
It’s called “The Red Palm Nut.” A young woman sits barefoot on the ground, reaching out her hand to a chimpanzee, who sits about a yard away. And he lightly, seemingly shyly, takes her human fingers into his own. A bright, red palm nut has dropped on the soil between them.
The woman in the sculpture is the great primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, at the moment she first earned the trust of a wild chimp. “He reached out and he took and dropped that palm nut,” she later remembered.
“But then very gently squeezed my fingers and that’s how chimpanzees reassure each other. So in that moment we understood each other without the use of human words, the language of gestures.” Continue reading
Over my own lifetime, I have had a huge appreciation for this world we’ve been handed to steward and do with as we wish. And it’s always been my wish that we as humans across the globe always wish and choose wisely, if only that all life survives and thrives.
“Are you tired of winning?” That’s the line we keep hearing from conservative media and many right-wing spokesmen. Goes the story, the Left is defeated. They are a joke. They have no message for the people. And my favorite, the Democrats will never win another election! 
When the government can label anyone or anything an enemy in order to wage war, we are all in danger.
The political class in Washington wants you to believe the sky is falling. Every time the government nears a shutdown, Democrats screech that America is about to collapse. Yet the last few weeks have proven the exact opposite. Public opinion is not with them, and they know it.
But wait there’s more… It was not just Ritalin and Adderall being prescribed for so-called learning and behavior disorder but also Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI’s) were becoming popular. I was on the Colorado State Board of Education when the Columbine massacre happened. One of my fellow board member’s daughter went to Columbine and was hiding from Eric and Dylin (the shooters) in the library closet. She had phoned her dad as it was happening.
For all reasonable Americans who are still capable of using logic and facts in tandem with existing U.S. legal code, they will be unable to come to any other conclusion other than finding the events from 2016 to the present as directed and guided through Democrat criminal complicity, to be nothing less than treason against the United States and the American people.
Republicans’ outlook on the direction of the country has soured dramatically, according to a new AP-NORC poll that was conducted shortly after last week’s assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
How does America survive when its citizens belong to two divided camps that believe fundamentally incompatible things?
Five years ago, public schools across the United States closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other large school districts were locked out of classrooms for 18 months. These prolonged public school closures harmed a generation of children. According to University of Arkansas professor of education policy Harry Anthony Patrinos, school closures in developed countries reduced students’ lifetime earnings by $21,000. 
Democrats are ready to force a government shutdown to appease their far-left base. Sure, the Republicans control both the House and Senate, but 60 votes are required in the Senate to keep the government going, and there are only 53 Republican Senators – and Mitch ’Turtle’ McConnell cannot be trusted to deliver a vote that helps Trump. 
In the election of 1800, journalist James Callender once described presidential candidate (and then Vice President) John Adams as “a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”
The UN was established after the failed “League of Nations,” but both were predicated on nations getting together to prevent disastrous wars.
Unfortunately, wherever one finds a free people and a free society, one will always find evil men and women who will do anything to control them, to bring them to heel, and to conquer them in fact – to force them to do their bidding upon pain of death. And in that, just as has always been the case, we will always find ourselves in a war to survive and defeat the forces of tyranny, those monsters who hate freedom and liberty.
The Department of Education has operated as a costly experiment in federal overreach for too long – expanding bureaucratic layers, weakening local control, and spending billions without improving academic outcomes.