Author Archives: Jeffrey

Why the Cotton States Seceded and Formed the Confederate States of America

Great Seal of the Confederacy featuring George Washington, Father of the Confederate States of America

President George Washington warned that political parties should always be national and not sectional, so they could govern with the good of the entire country in mind. He warned that a political party representing only one section would destroy the country because it would allow that one section to dominate and tax the rest of the country for its own benefit.

But money and power are mighty enticements and the North’s population exploded in the 1850s. The new Republican Party realized that the North could outvote the rest of the country and rule for its own benefit, so the Republican Party became the first sectional party in American history: The party of the North. If they could just rally their votes they would have power, wealth, control. They were snarling and drooling like a pack of hungry wolves surrounding a lamb before tearing it to bits. Continue reading →

Benson: America’s Education – From the Unitarians to the Chinese Communists

Over the years many have written about the Unitarian and socialist foundations of public education in this country. Authors such as theologian R. J. Rushdoony and author Samuel Blumenfeld have done yeoman duty in this area by exposing the dubious foundations of public education in America.

Now, Ashley Carnahan, writing in Campus Reform has noted that nowadays many of our universities have been undermining all efforts to resist the Chinese Communists. Carnahan has observed that “A new U.S. State Department report outlines how America can respond to China’s rise as a global superpower, and the communist country’s threat to ‘revise world order,’ and states that America’s institutions of higher education are being used to achieve China’s mission.” Is anyone really surprised at this? Had you followed our educational situation in this country you wouldn’t be. The State Department report is entitled The Elements of the China Challenge.
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Back to School…

No my friends… contrary to what the image shows… this is NOT a rewrite of the old 1986 Rodney Dangerfield movie.

I have discovered manuscripts which I had begun to prepare some years ago for the publication of my third book of the series, AMERICA: The Grand Illusion. I chose to no longer publish the series of books, as I felt that what we had to share was greater used by those who I was privileged to serve here – at the Metropolis Café. Many of the new historical posts can be found in the category of Mr. Adair’s Classroom, but also you will find the links with brief introduction through Words & Deeds, within their respective date categories.

…and so we begin to add to our library once more.

AMENDMENT XIV to the Constitution

~ Prologue ~
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbids states from denying any person “life, liberty or property, without due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Continue reading →

Reconstruction of the South (1865 – 1877)

After the Civil War, attempts were made to solve the political, social, and economic problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the eleven Confederate states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. President Abraham Lincoln planned to readmit states in which at least 10% of the voters had pledged loyalty to the Union. Continue reading →

Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

I awoke early on a December morning and was shortly put into a state of shock – and great sadness. It has taken me nearly thirteen days before I could bring myself to publish this tribute to a GREAT human being – by another man, who I feel as strongly about – Thomas Sowell. Both men have had a tremendous impact on my life for this past quarter-century plus. R.I.P. Mr Williams. As with music that has been left to me by many artists throughout my life, I also will be left with your wisdom through your writings. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Publisher

Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

Walter Williams loved teaching. Unlike too many other teachers today, he made it a point never to impose his opinions on his students. Those who read his syndicated newspaper columns know that he expressed his opinions boldly and unequivocally there. But not in the classroom.

Walter once said he hoped that, on the day he died, he would have taught a class that day. And that is just the way it was, when he died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020.

He was my best friend for half a century. There was no one I trusted more or whose integrity I respected more. Since he was younger than me, I chose him to be my literary executor, to take control of my books after I was gone.

But his death is a reminder that no one really has anything to say about such things. Continue reading →

My personal story from the collapse of the Soviet Union

When I was a kid growing up in the Soviet Union, it was essentially forbidden to make a better life for yourself.

You couldn’t just decide to go back to school, start a business, or switch careers to a thriving new industry, and it didn’t matter how hard you worked – you were most likely NEVER going to be promoted. All the top jobs in the Soviet Union were reserved for party loyalists. Continue reading →

Woke Iconoclasts Expunge Founders From Schools

A DC-area school board votes to rename schools named for Thomas Jefferson and George Mason.

In the Washington, DC, suburb of Falls Church, Virginia, the local school board recently unanimously voted to rename Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and George Mason High School because of what have become all too frequent “woke” considerations. As one board member explained, “Our schools must be places where all students, staff, and community members feel safe, supported, and inspired.” The board member forgot to mention that such sentiments apply to everyone except those who hold conservative views on free speech and love this nation, but we digress. The names of two men whose incredible contributions to human history included crafting the founding documents of the greatest nation on earth but who also owned slaves clearly don’t comport with the sensibilities of modern social justice warriors. Continue reading →

From Your friends at BIG Pharma

… creating mindless little drones who passively accept all infringements upon their rights and liberty without question.

Prozac-Discovered by Eli Lilly in 1972 and entered into use in 1986, I believe. Listed by the World Health Organization as an ‘Essential’ Medicine for its treatment of a wide range of disorders. The 31st most prescribed drug in the United States.

Now wonder the people can’t think these days; we’ve become a nation of doped up junkies. Continue reading →

Our Schools Have Failed The Test And Bureaucrats Have Been Exposed

Montgomery County, Maryland is a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. Like many such jurisdictions, Montgomery County remains tightly locked down. Its public schools are closed, and all students are required to participate in “distance learning.” The results have been disastrous –particularly for minority students.

Since the advent of the great “War on Poverty” liberal educators in Montgomery County and elsewhere in the nation have trumpeted their efforts to close the “achievement gap” -the yawning chasm that exists between the performance of white students and minority, particularly black, students. Quite rightly educators have focused on the fact that in an increasingly high-tech world, students who come out of school without the requisite education are doomed to a lifetime of poverty and are much more likely to end up institutionalized. Continue reading →

The REAL ‘Village of the Damned!‘

In this video we examine how public schools and the mainstream media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of tyranny. We then look at the role anti-authoritarians play in a free and flourishing society.

...just more reasons to remove our children from the Dens of Iniquity!

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Math: the old fashioned way!

Any math teachers out there… do yourself and a future generation a favor… use a tape measure to teach fractions… teach the kids HOW to read and use a tape measure!

Knight’s Crossing… and remembering a friend

I have not slept well this past night, and so chose to just get out of bed and do some desktop fishing. I began going through some old emails and decided to do something just a bit interesting this morning – post a major piece of work from a now deceased Southern Brother – a man who I came to know quite well over a number of years. As a writer – with one exception – he was known as, J.D. Longstreet. His real name was Bill Ghent. There are some of you who may have known him, or of him. Let me begin by sharing a brief biography of him… and THEN prepare yourself for over 200 pages of his love of the history of the Southland.

J. D. Longstreet was a conservative Southern American (A native sandlapper and an adopted Tar Heel) with a deep passion for the history, heritage, and culture of the southern states of America. At the same time he was a deeply loyal American believing strongly in “America First”. Continue reading →

Crossed Signals: Dangers of Wifi

You can’t see it but it’s everywhere. WiFi connects computers to the internet, no cords required. Now kids are using it in wireless classrooms across the country. But is it an invisible danger? Carolyn Jarvis investigates why some parents say wifi in schools is making our kids sick…

…and yet with Homeschooling – forced (Corona-19) or otherwise – our children are all affected – as are we. ~ Ed.

‘Oxygen Deprivation Causes Permanent Neurological Damage’

Teacher’s, Parents and Students… WAKE UP!

The delusional madness of forcing children to wear face masks blatantly ignores expert warnings: “The child needs the brain to learn, and the brain needs oxygen to function. We don’t need a clinical study for that. This is simple, indisputable physiology.”

This well-known German neurologist and neurophysiologist, Dr. Margarite Griesz-Brisson, warns of a tsunami of dementia years down the road because of oxygen deprivation from wearing masks today. Are you willing to risk your brain to scientifically unfounded, politically-motivated mandates. ~ Editor

Dr. Margarite Griesz-Brisson MD, PhD is a Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist with a PhD in Pharmacology, with special interest in neurotoxicology, environmental medicine, neuroregeneration and neuroplasticity. This is what she has to say about facemasks and their effects on our brains:

“The reinhalation of our exhaled air will without a doubt create oxygen deficiency and a flooding of carbon dioxide. We know that the human brain is very sensitive to oxygen deprivation. There are nerve cells for example in the hippocampus that can’t be longer than 3 minutes without oxygen – they cannot survive. Read full story…

The Powerful Brain

Can anyone read this? C’mon…. be HONEST!

An interesting test for your students…

For YOUR Consideration

Last Lines: After all, tomorrow is another day.

Illustration by Britt Spencer

Sometimes we know what a novel’s last line will be from the beginning, we just don’t know that we knew. It’s a trick readers of Less – a recent comic novel of lost love and world travel by Andrew Sean Greer – will recall: Less’s last line is “Less!” Right Ho, Jeeves would end on the line, “Right ho, Jeeves,” if Jeeves didn’t then reply, “Very good, sir.” Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? occupies its last lines with that titular concern—hoping that, all told, we can. And in the last line of Rabbit, Run Rabbit Angstrom (you guessed it) runs: “out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs.”

Last lines of novels may leave you with no idea of what’s next — or they may simply act as though there’s no end in sight. Some even seem to say something new with every rereading. Continue reading →

The ACLU and College Professors are Encouraging Book Burnings

November 20, 2020 ~ Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.

ACLU and Professor Team Up to Encourage Book Burnings

Abigail Shrier has committed the ultimate sin: she has a different opinion than the woke mob. And that is an unforgivable transgression. Continue reading →

Sagan on Schools