Harrisburg, PA- House Bill 1456, a bill to provide over $259 million to Penn State University, failed to reach the two-thirds majority threshold required for final passage in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives following an investigation by the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus that uncovered the prescription of experimental puberty blockers to children as young as five years-old.
Hoo ray for our Pa. Legislators they should take a bow. Now stop all tax payer money going to all other institutions, ie Childrens Hospitalin ,Pia. who do the same thing. No puberty blockers, gender surgeries.
Had I been Rep. Rowe, or any other Legislator who had participated in the successful effort to refuse to provide public funding to Pennsylvania State University, for the 2023/2024, I probably would not have invited nor encouraged Pennsylvania State University to "[continue] the dialogue" regarding matters related to the 2023/2024 State Budget.
Positions have been defined and made clear; decisions have been made; and actions have been taken.
The Fiscal Year ends in 6 days; and the Constitution apparently requires a that balanced BUDGET [i.e., "a spending-plan TOGETHER WITH a revenue package"] be passed by both Houses of the Legislature and submitted to the Governor, for signature] within that time.
Rather than inviting an unsuccessful applicant for a "no-strings" State grant to "[continue] the dialogue", I might have evaluated my understanding of the dignity of the office of State Legislator, in light of both my understanding of "my" District and my memory of my own campaign(s) for public office, in that District, and either:
1) allowed "the moment" to pass without comment from me; or
2) observed that, while an independent nature has been considered to be a cherished, American virtue, for the last couple of centuries, actually BEING independent is "a different animal, altogether", from merely "declaring independence".
The work of governing is, similarly, "a different animal, altogether", from that of "seeking truth" in an apolitical, free-wheeling, unrestrained "quest for knowledge".
The Greek philosopher Plato might have imagined that the "philosopher-king" would be of benefit to the nation.
But, the beneficiaries of the policies of Solomon [of Israel-and-Judah] and of both Marcus Aurelius and Julian the Apostate [both, of Rome], also, proved unwilling or unable to hold onto that with which those "philosopher-kings" had provided them.
So, of what value was the ascendancy of philosopher-kings? Perhaps they who seek wisdom in the cool, green glades that lie within the Groves of Academe might be able to provide a well-documented, admirably-cited, impeccably-formulated answer that is untainted by "perspective", "interpretation", or "story-telling".
It not, perhaps it might be worth considering, that the same sort of "wall of separation" that distinguishes Church from State, in the USA, might, someday, be erected, between the State and the sacred Groves of Academe.
Perhaps, if there were fewer opportunities for academics to chafe under the exercise, by "benefactors" (public or private), of "the power of the purse", "academic inquiry" might be freer; and they who are currently required to publish, lest their careers be assumed to have withered and atrophied, might have less cause to deem themselves oppressed or ill-used.
Hoo ray for our Pa. Legislators they should take a bow. Now stop all tax payer money going to all other institutions, ie Childrens Hospitalin ,Pia. who do the same thing. No puberty blockers, gender surgeries.
Thank you
Nicely done!
If only we had legislators in CA who fights for children. Sadly that’s not the case.
Had I been Rep. Rowe, or any other Legislator who had participated in the successful effort to refuse to provide public funding to Pennsylvania State University, for the 2023/2024, I probably would not have invited nor encouraged Pennsylvania State University to "[continue] the dialogue" regarding matters related to the 2023/2024 State Budget.
Positions have been defined and made clear; decisions have been made; and actions have been taken.
The Fiscal Year ends in 6 days; and the Constitution apparently requires a that balanced BUDGET [i.e., "a spending-plan TOGETHER WITH a revenue package"] be passed by both Houses of the Legislature and submitted to the Governor, for signature] within that time.
Rather than inviting an unsuccessful applicant for a "no-strings" State grant to "[continue] the dialogue", I might have evaluated my understanding of the dignity of the office of State Legislator, in light of both my understanding of "my" District and my memory of my own campaign(s) for public office, in that District, and either:
1) allowed "the moment" to pass without comment from me; or
2) observed that, while an independent nature has been considered to be a cherished, American virtue, for the last couple of centuries, actually BEING independent is "a different animal, altogether", from merely "declaring independence".
The work of governing is, similarly, "a different animal, altogether", from that of "seeking truth" in an apolitical, free-wheeling, unrestrained "quest for knowledge".
The Greek philosopher Plato might have imagined that the "philosopher-king" would be of benefit to the nation.
But, the beneficiaries of the policies of Solomon [of Israel-and-Judah] and of both Marcus Aurelius and Julian the Apostate [both, of Rome], also, proved unwilling or unable to hold onto that with which those "philosopher-kings" had provided them.
So, of what value was the ascendancy of philosopher-kings? Perhaps they who seek wisdom in the cool, green glades that lie within the Groves of Academe might be able to provide a well-documented, admirably-cited, impeccably-formulated answer that is untainted by "perspective", "interpretation", or "story-telling".
It not, perhaps it might be worth considering, that the same sort of "wall of separation" that distinguishes Church from State, in the USA, might, someday, be erected, between the State and the sacred Groves of Academe.
Perhaps, if there were fewer opportunities for academics to chafe under the exercise, by "benefactors" (public or private), of "the power of the purse", "academic inquiry" might be freer; and they who are currently required to publish, lest their careers be assumed to have withered and atrophied, might have less cause to deem themselves oppressed or ill-used.