Chance Litton

My daughter is coming into an age in which she is absorbing knowledge and ideas like a sponge.  This has made me keenly aware that there are many competing ideologies out there among children’s books and television programs.  Most people see cartoonish pictures of animals, cuddly dancing monsters and simple lessons on numbers and the [...]

Homeschooling as a concept was completely foreign to me until I went to college.  I met a few kids there that had been homeschooled and my general impression was that their parents must have been hippies or religious zealots.  Of course, I made these judgments without any data whatsoever.  Then, while I was on my [...]

I sent the following letter to the RNC Chairman at http://www.gop.com/Connect/ContactUs.htm.  I encourage everyone to send one of their own.
Mr. Chairman,
As the Republican leadership considers why we lost the election, I hope you will consider the following points:
1)  George W. Bush won in 2000 running on traditional Republican principles such as limited government, free market [...]

The voters have spoken and Senator Obama is going to be our next president.  The debate over what the Republicans need to do in order to be competitive in two years is already raging.  The big question is: should the Republicans abandon free-market capitalism, individual liberty and limited government or return to those core conservative ideals?
Those that blame [...]

Here is a video version of a powerpoint/keynote presentation I made to summarize the key points of Ron Paul’s The Revolution: A Manifesto.  The presentation has several extra slides that aren’t in the video that cover more issues like the income tax and the environment.
Here is the powerpoint file if you’d like to give it [...]

Recently, in our world of political ideas, words like Socialist and Fascist have made a resurgent comeback.  Some people hurl them at domestic opponents and foreign enemies alike in order to rouse emotional responses.  Others seek to redefine them to make them more avoidable or even acceptable, and still others seek to make them taboo [...]

Isn’t voting a pain in the ass?  My vote is just one little ballot in a sea of millions; statistically meaningless, yet it feels so important.  The 2008 presidential election has caused me more intellectual grief and ideological heartache than all of my previous voting experiences combined.  Finally, just a couple of weeks before the [...]

Once every few centuries a person comes along that takes the world by the scruff of the neck and shakes it like a dog that just peed on the floor.  When others say can’t they say can, when the going gets tough they get going, when others stand in their way, the give ‘em a [...]