Proud to be a retired Arkansas Educator
Arkansas, USA
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“The political left seems to regard economic policy issues as litmus tests for whether you are a good person, rather than as questions of facts about what works and doesn't work.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Thomas Sowell explains why promoting equity can lead to the opposite of what it promises.
Equal outcomes don’t guarantee fairness, and forcing them can create even more problems.
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
- Henry Adams
Henry Adams (1838–1918) was an influential American historian, author, and intellectual whose writings explored education, human behavior, history, and the powerful forces shaping society. Born into one of America’s most prominent political families, he was the great-grandson of President John Adams and the grandson of President John Quincy Adams. His most celebrated work, The Education of Henry Adams, was an autobiographical exploration of the shortcomings of traditional education and the difficulties of making sense of a world undergoing rapid transformation. In 1919, the book received the Pulitzer Prize posthumously, cementing his place in American literary history.
Adams believed that genuine education extended far beyond the walls of a classroom. He recognized that learning was a lifelong process shaped by personal experiences, relationships, and the people who influence our thinking. His reflections on teaching emphasized that an educator’s impact rarely ends when a student leaves the classroom. Instead, the knowledge, values, and inspiration passed from teacher to student can continue influencing lives for generations, often in ways neither person could ever anticipate.
Throughout his career, Adams examined the complicated connections between knowledge, political power, technological advancement, and social change. He questioned conventional beliefs and challenged readers to reconsider how people learn, adapt, and understand the world around them.
More than a century after his death, Henry Adams continues to be remembered for his intellectual curiosity, sharp historical perspective, and willingness to challenge established ideas. His legacy serves as a reminder that education is not simply about acquiring information but about shaping minds, inspiring future generations, and creating an influence that can extend far beyond one’s own lifetime.
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“Anyone who really wants the truth, ends up at Jesus.”
- Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash shared this perspective while reflecting on the spiritual transformation of his close friend Bob Dylan, who embraced Christianity in the late 1970s and went on to release several gospel-inspired albums. Cash believed that anyone who sincerely searched for life’s deeper meaning and ultimate truth would eventually find their way to Jesus Christ and His teachings.
Having endured his own struggles with addiction and personal hardship, Cash understood the importance of faith in overcoming life’s darkest moments. Christianity became a central part of his identity, providing him with strength, purpose, and a foundation for his beliefs. His words reflected not only his deeply rooted religious convictions but also his understanding of Dylan’s spiritual journey. For Cash, the pursuit of truth was more than an intellectual exercise; it was a deeply personal experience that he believed ultimately led to Christ.
Danny Brackett, Ed.D. retweeted
How to be a great teammate:
Lead yourself first.
Own your attitude and effort, every day.
Put the team's win ahead of your role.
Humility > ego.
Be coachable when it stings.
Make the people around you better.
Talent makes you valuable.
Being a great teammate makes you trusted.
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Leadership isn’t avoiding blame. It’s accepting responsibility.
Before you correct the player, correct the process.
What did we miss? What wasn’t clear? What could we have prepared better?
Accountability begins with ownership.
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Bishop Fulton Sheen warned us in 1965: "False compassion... is a pity that is shown, not to the mugged, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer; not to the woman who was raped, but to the rapist..."
Sixty-one years later, this is the Democratic party platform.
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🚨NEW: Our critique of a major "brain sex" study is now published.
@AdamRochussen, @NeuroSGS, and I evaluate a central premise of gender activism and medicine: that trans-identifying people have brains that are shifted away from their sex and toward their "gender identity."
The "brain sex" concept is so central because it purports to provide an empirical scientific basis for the notion that a child can be "born in the wrong body" and would therefore benefit from body-altering medical procedures to align their body with their mind/brain.
The problem is that this concept is pure pseudoscience and propped up by deeply flawed methods and badly misinterpreted data.
One of the most prominent studies is Kurth et al. (2022), published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, which claimed that the brains of transgender women are shifted away from their sex and toward their "gender identity." The paper became one of the journal’s most accessed articles and has been cited in major media outlets, scientific papers, legal arguments, and policy discussions involving pediatric gender medicine and sports.
We point out that the paper's headline conclusion rests on a series of serious methodological problems.
Each group contained only 24 participants. The authors used poorly justified parametric methods, one-tailed post hoc tests, made no correction for multiple comparisons, and omitted important robustness checks. Once accounted for, the main finding is no longer statistically significant.
An even more glaring failure of the study was that it failed to account for sexual orientation, despite its known association with neuroanatomical variation and despite the authors having the relevant participant data needed to examine it!
We each repeatedly requested the anonymized participant-level data from the paper's lead author so we could independently evaluate the findings.
We received no response.
The evidence simply does not justify the sweeping "brain sex" conclusion for which this study has become famous.
Our full critique in @Theory_Society is open access. Read it at the link below, and please cite it and share it whenever you encounter the false claim that trans people have brains that more closely resemble the sex they identify than their own sex.
🔗link.springer.com/article/10…
Danny Brackett, Ed.D. retweeted
Filename says Elon. It’s not Elon.
It’s the Babylon Bee — a time traveler from 2025 showing up to kill Hitler… and then realizing the checklist overlaps: force people to follow “great ideas,” silence the dangerous ones, “undesirable” groups, segregated spaces with modern excuses, gun control for the wrong people, Margaret Sanger, socialized medicine, vegetarian.
She came to assassinate evil. She leaves complimenting a painting titled “an empire without Jews” — and says it sounds beautiful.
Satire. Ugly on purpose. And that’s why it sticks.
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NO LIBERALS, I didn't vote RED because I'm “in a cult.”
I voted RED because THE DEMOCRATS have taken us back to the darkest days of the Roman empire:
13-year-old BOYS wearing women’s clothing and dancing (and doing God only knows what else) for MEN.
GAY PORNOGRAPHY AND SEXUAL INSTRUCTION in our kid’s’ school libraries.
Mounting racial bullying and violence against white children in schools.
Homeless drug addicts urinating and defecating on our sidewalks.
The “G” in LGBTQ has come to stand for GROOMERS OF KIDS.
Natural-born females can no longer win in sports because MEN IDENTIFYING AS WOMEN are breaking all the records.
And the country is overrun with MILLIONS of non-English-speaking illegals who place an enormous drain on resources that we taxpayers pay for and deserve!!!
If democrats retake the House and the Senate, our society & culture will be upside down and DOWN THE DRAIN.
That’s what I voted AGAINST in 2020.
That’s what I voted AGAINST in 2024.
That’s what I'll be voting AGAINST in The Midterms.
Who's with me on that?
Danny Brackett, Ed.D. retweeted
The dumbest smear i get is 'you don't actually care about women's sports.'
I was an elite athlete until i was 19 years old. I was a 7x national gymnastics team member. I dedicated my life to sports. I moved away from home at 14 before it was a thing for parents to put everything into their kids' sporting career. I had zero childhood, only training.
I was the first whistleblower about abuse in gymnastics. I endured harassment and being demonized for calling out abusive coaches and a culture that promotes it and covers it up. I didn't stop speaking up, despite the endless harassment, precisely because I care about female athletes.
I had the first meeting with Senator Feinstein about the need for the Safe Sport Act. Which happened about a year after that meeting.
I wrote a book exposing abuse in the Olympic movement. I named names.
I made a documentary film connecting the crimes of Larry Nassar to a broader culture of abuse in sports.
Seriously, find another smear.
I'm a lot of things -- smear me for those. But the idea that I don't care about female athletes and women's sports is so dumb I can't even really find the words. You would actually be hard pressed to find someone who cares more and has done more to show it.
Find another smear.
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In 1910, you could buy a bicycle for $11.95 from Sears.
Entry-level wages were $0.11 an hour, meaning it took unskilled workers 108.6 hours to buy a bicycle.
Today, an entry-level worker can buy a bike at Walmart after working for just 5.2 hours.
humanprogress.org/the-steep-…
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What an honor for S4A! Gabbie Bishop, Gatorade National Player of the year for Track&Field/CrossCountry gifted the $10,000 nonprofit gift to S4A. #service @ArkansasOnline @DemGazPhotos
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
- Plato
Plato was born around 428 BC in Athens, Greece. A philosopher and teacher, he explored some of the most fundamental questions about justice, knowledge, morality, politics, and the nature of reality. He became one of the most influential thinkers in ancient Greek philosophy and founded the Academy in Athens, one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the Western world. His ideas continue to influence philosophy, ethics, education, and political thought.
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
The meaning behind this quote is deeply philosophical and speaks to a basic part of human nature. Plato contrasts a child’s fear of darkness with something more profound: an adult’s fear of truth and understanding. A child fears the dark because they do not know what might be hidden within it. But when someone fears the “light,” that fear can come from confronting reality as it truly is.
The light represents truth, knowledge, self-awareness, and understanding. People sometimes choose comfortable beliefs over uncomfortable truths because accepting reality may require them to change, admit they were wrong, or confront something they would rather avoid. Plato’s message is that ignorance may be understandable, but deliberately turning away from truth when it is within reach is the greater tragedy. Becoming wiser requires the courage to step into the light, even when what we find there is difficult to accept.
