Annie Holmquist
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Good Reading Is the Cure for Gullibility
We have a population afflicted by gullibility--one that neither reads nor thinks but simply does whatever authorities and media outlets say to do. → Read More
Why Are So Many Young People Dying Suddenly?
An alarming trend is unfolding before our eyes: young, seemingly healthy individuals are dropping like flies, dying suddenly. → Read More
Laughter, the Bane of Tyrants
Why is laughter the bane of tyrants? Because tyrants seek to enslave people, but laughter helps an individual break free from such enslavement. → Read More
Stamping Out the Fire of Free Speech Only Makes It Spread Faster
The more you try to stamp out speech, the more the message spreads. → Read More
White Kids Can’t Read Either
Even allegedly traditional supporters of public schools are recognizing just how horrible its offerings are. Let’s look at the numbers. → Read More
White Kids Can’t Read Either
Even allegedly traditional supporters of public schools are recognizing just how horrible its offerings are. Let’s look at the numbers. → Read More
Trust the Science and Skip the Gender-Neutral Toys and Clothes
Stay-at-home father Jay Deitcher prided himself on “blurring gender lines,” a trait he tried hard to pass along to his own young son. So he hid the kiddie → Read More
Searching for Truth in Our Media Dark Age
“The first Dark Ages are lost in the mists of antiquity, with virtually no records. The coming Dark Ages will be equally lost in the blaze of studio lighting, with a superabundance of records, almost all falsified.” → Read More
Behind Every Masculine Man Is a Feminine Woman
If you as a woman want to change the world, cast off the bonds of feminism and instead embrace femininity. → Read More
Femimen: The Backwards Thinking of Men Trying to Be Women
Our roots, and subsequent happiness, are not in men acting like women and women acting like men. Only backwards thinking would propose such a thing. → Read More
The Swindle of Mass Testing and Schooling
Mass schooling and the testing it promotes as a path to increased education is a swindle. Don’t let your children fall prey to it if you want them to be set apart from the herd as truly educated, intelligent individuals. → Read More
Landing on the Right Side of the Tracks: Trades vs. College
In the past, those who pursued training in the trades were looked down upon, almost as if they were from “the wrong side of the tracks.” Now, however, the college side of the tracks is turning into the less desirable one for several reasons. → Read More
Petulant Students Do Not a Utopia Make
The anger and hatred today's students demonstrate will never create the perfect world they think it will—it will only create a more miserable and more ridiculous one. → Read More
Laughing at Times to Come
The state does not grant peace and liberty to individuals. Instead, it seeks to stir people up and keep them in a constant state of dependence and fear. → Read More
We Do Not Walk Alone
One of the reasons why we struggle during hard times is that we think and act as though we walk alone. → Read More
A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking
A teacher-friend of mine recently expressed sadness over the stagnation of her students. Before the pandemic she could see students steadily gaining ground. → Read More
A Decline in Reading Skills Makes Geese for the Plucking
“Without the ability to read and argue we’re just geese to be plucked” → Read More
Real Men Wanted
We are unwilling to take even the risks that life naturally brings—in marriage, in family, in standing for truth—let alone the kind that Ernest Shackleton sought in the men he took with him on the Endurance. → Read More
Training Faithful Foot Soldiers in the War Against the Elite
Elites have waged a war on children and the family for years ... because they know that raising faithful foot soldiers gets in the way of their quest for control. → Read More
Where Have All the Great Men Gone? (Not to Harvard)
How do we encourage the next generation toward greatness rather than simply promoting compromise, concession, and conformity as Harvard is doing? → Read More