Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • BEWARE AMERICA:

    Originally posted on DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing: The Authoritarian Personality Type: To have an authoritarian personality doesn’t just mean to be the one who dictates. In 1950, Harper and Row published a book that had all the earmarks of a blockbuster in the field of psychology. The Authoritarian Personality was an attempt by a group of researchers to explain the…

  • Our Blog Poet on Accountability

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Some Dam Poet writes about accountability: “Accountability” Accountability is for students For janitors and teachers For those who flip the burgers For those who clean the bleachers For those who wash the dishes For those who build the roads For those who catch the fishes And do the laundry loads For those who do…

  • Kill Shot: a Walk in the Park

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: This is a work of fiction based on the experiences of its author, Robbie Rea, a qualified sniper, who served in the U.S. Marines for four years before joining special forces and training as a medic. He fought in the Middle East as a Green Beret. His forthcoming completed memoir is called “Next…

  • Ted Cruz Attacks the U.S. Constitution – Nothing New There

    There is a disturbing trend among Republican Presidential candidates, who are making claims—if elected—that goes against what the Founding Fathers wrote in the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

  • Antonin Scalia Was a Terrible Person, and I’m Glad He’s Dead

    Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog: Wow! It feels so good to say that aloud! Come on. Admit it. You feel exactly the same way. I know. I know. Everywhere you turn, people are going out of their way to talk about the ramifications of the 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice’s death without passing judgement on him. “Let’s keep it classy,” they say.…

  • Ten Examples that help define American Exceptionalism

    The United States has more billionaires, produces more pornography, sells more weapons, and fields more aircraft carriers than any country on the planet.

  • Will the U.S. Cultural Revolution Rival Mao’s in Suffering and Loss?

    What happens when for-profit corporations take over fighting America’s wars, and who do you think will end up doing the fighting?

  • Book Promotion for “The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova” on Sale for $0.99

    American clubs like the one in this novel have been the center of a cultural struggle pitting the forces of hedonism, revelry, and sexual liberation against those of socio-sexual stability and control.

  • Corporate driven public education reform is destroying OUR children’s health and future

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: I was reading the latest issue of National Geographic Magazine when I saw the following paragraph and realized that the test obsessed corporate public education reform movement is threatening the health and future of most of America’s children. Daniel Stone wrote, “Hard on the Eyes: Rates of myopia have increased around…

  • Book Promotion for “My Splendid Concubine” on Sale for $0.99

    Originally posted on iLook China: “My Splendid Concubine” is based on a true story. A larger-than-life bronze statue of Robert Hart, ordered by the Emperor of China, was placed on the Bund in Shanghai, China to honor this Irishman, and it stood for several decades before the Japanese removed it during World War II and turned the metal into bullets. It took…