Dismantaling the Department of Education: Our current system values all the wrong things

It doesn’t matter what kind of technicality some opposition to the Trump executive order that dismantles the Department of Education hides behind; the reality is that education in the United States needs to change. And no amount of foot-dragging will change the minds of people tired of a losing product. When Trump issued his order to initiate the process of eliminating the Department of Education and returning policy to the states, he did something that no Republican had the courage to do since it was created in the first place. Reagan was supposed to eliminate the DOE in early 1981 or 1982. Then he was almost killed by an assassin’s bullet and was never quite the same. And the George Bushes were part of the problem, and made things worse. So, until Trump came along, nobody had the guts to undo what Jimmy Carter had started, a big government approach to a very intimate concept of education and how society approaches it. Knowing what we do now, competition is the best and really only method of reform, and the way teacher unions have embedded themselves into the education profession, they have done to the minds of children what unions typically do to everything they touch, whether its steel, car manufacture, or even food production and movie making. Unions only benefit the losers at the expense of the good, and that brings down the quality of the entire effort. So, it’s no wonder America is not even in the top ten on most education charts, despite being the wealthiest country. Public education was a noble concept, but the government’s funding of a subpar product has diminished its appeal and has not served our society well. When you examine the literacy rate among graduating students, it’s clear that if we continue on our current path, our society will crumble into dust. And we can’t have that.

And I don’t say what I do in a vacuum. Even as I write this, people are urging me to run for the school board in my community, because the schools there have received a significant amount of funding, yet they are failing in detrimental ways. And I know what needs to be done, but I don’t want to help facilitate a failed system. Joining a five-person school board that defends a system I am ready to scrap isn’t a good way to spend my time. I think a society should have an education system, but I think Dewey was way off in the means of delivery. I would be in favor of a highly competitive model that is more merit-based, similar to the one Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing in Ohio as a future governor. Currently, school boards act like a moderator for government money allocation, and that entire system, in my thinking, needs to be scrapped. And for context, I work with many people who hold PhDs and have multiple advanced degrees, and I do not see them offering a solution for the future. In my opinion, academia has not been very effective and has never been in the history of the human race. While specific knowledge is honorable, it often comes at the expense of general knowledge, which is far more useful. I don’t see people with advanced degrees as any different from the geeks at Comic Con who gain particular knowledge about a topic and then build their lives around that specificity at the expense of logic. No matter what it is, when people lose touch with reality and seek to prop themselves up in a social context with the merit of group acceptance, the results are never positive. And doing that very thing is the goal of our current education system, so in its current form, I see no hope for it.

And Trump doesn’t have the answer either, nor does Vivek Ramaswamy, nor does Mike DeWine; people who are currently in the midst of redefining what public education means in America, and specifically in Ohio. Achieving a high academic honor only benefits the system that created that honor. For instance, receiving an Academy Award for a movie used to be considered an outstanding achievement, but woke politics have undermined the entire enterprise. Now, after years of witnessing Hollywood failure and Democrat political positions, the concept of an Academy Award means nothing to anybody. And the same has happened in all fields, especially the sciences. I was on a phone call just a few days ago with the head of the EPA and a panel of experts who were trying to explain the rules of conduct for a future project. And there were reasonable people involved until there was that one guy who wanted to make sure everyone knew how smart he was and how he had built his entire life around making rules and then explaining to people how to live their lives around those rules, rather than dealing with the grim reality that the world didn’t want to deal with his dumb rules. I am not mad at the guy because he was essentially getting in the way of something I needed to do. But because he was uselessly in the way of things that needed to be done, which he thought had value and merit, when in reality he was the kind of guy who likely had a mom who put a bicycle helmet on him one too many times. And his wife and kids were probably miserable with his views about life. They were built on a bad foundation that the rest of the world could have cared less for. It’s the same kind of people who are always encountered at the patent office. Or with a new scientific discovery, especially with this new news about what’s under the Giza plateau in the form of tunnels and a Hall of Records potentially at the feet of the Sphinx. Academia has become a public validation for individuals who rise in these fields, as they protect their status through stonewalling and bureaucratic rules, believing their social standing is respected. And they are terrified of that status ever changing because, as people, they are timid at the prospect of competition and have built their lives around that insulation, hoping that nobody ever discovers how worthless they are.

The first thing that people think who build their lives around such a social enterprise is that Trump is acting in an anti-educational way, and they are agitated and even hostile to the idea of removing the Department of Education which sets social policy for the bench marks of education achievement in the far away land of Washington D.C. And people who have spent their lives chasing those made up standards want that system to continue because they are personally terrified of competition. As I’ve experienced with high-degree personalities, they are often shocked in a competitive discussion to discover that they are not the most intelligent people in the room. They have a paper that shows that someone told them they were. However, reality has other opinions, and those become apparent in a competitive environment. Every child in America needs a unique set of educational goals to achieve, as the current benchmarks are mainly ineffective. If our schools were producing students like Elon Musk, I would have a different opinion. But what we get are kids who think going to a Tayler Swift concert is a great thing and they grow up to become terrors of the world dropping their kids off at child care while they pursue a life on a second marriage and run like bats out of hell to pay their next car payment and achieve a social status to other people who mean absolutely nothing as well. I want to see an education system that inspires more people to achieve great things in the world at all levels of society. Because what has been produced so far has not been very good, and it needs to change dramatically in the years to come. There is nothing anyone in the world can do to make public education work under the current Department of Education priorities. It can’t be saved, and the sooner everyone realizes that, the sooner we can have an intelligent discussion about what comes next. But saving garbage is not it.

Rich Hoffman

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Marc Elias and Mark Pomerantz Committed Sedition Against America: They have to be punished and more for what they did

It can’t be forgiven or forgotten what Marc Elias and Mark Pomerantz did to President Trump to commit election fraud. It’s not enough to deal with what they actually did, but we have to consider the intent, just as any legal matter would traditionally, and justifiably, be settled. Because unless we punish them, and punish them hard with years in jail, a loss of their incomes and reputation, and perhaps even worse, these people and many others will do it again. We’re talking about what Trump said about them when he gave his recent speech to the Department of Justice. And I’ll go one further: they would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for January 6th and the anger over election fraud. These people had to somewhat play by the rules they intended to break because they were scared of people coming uncorked on them because of what they saw once Trump was removed from office. So they at least tried to give the illusion that they were playing by the rules. But at a minimum what the Democrat lawyer Marc Elias did to support Joe Biden’s election theft of 2020 can only be viewed legally as sedition and a conspiracy against our nation. To further cause massive abuse of the power system in place, Mark Pomerantz left his job as a federal prosecutor and joined the Manhattan District Attorney to go after the Trump Organization itself and destroy the past and future president’s access to income. It should never be forgotten that if Trump had not won the 2024 election, he would have been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison and would have been driven to bankruptcy. Both of these guys went for Trump’s jugular without even thinking about what might happen if he were to win another election and be restored to the White House. They intended to destroy Trump and to send a message to the rest of us never to play in their sandbox of Washington, D.C., again.

We all know attorneys like Marc Elias and cutthroat losers like Mark Pomerantz. They knew Trump won the election, so they openly sought to suppress the evidence and to run out the litigation methods in the courts by using time against the concept of justice, knowing full well what they were doing. And to keep the cover-up going, they had to destroy Trump so he could never afford to run for President again. The message was that they had control of the system, not the voters and that they were going to use the legal system to remove a president from power. There were a lot more people involved than just these two, but they willingly played their part in a coup of a people’s pick in the White House. And at a minimum, they committed sedition against the United States. Sedition by technical definition, is defined as conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or government. It typically involves actions or words intended to undermine or overthrow established governance, encouraging resistance, insurrection, or disloyalty among citizens or officials. Sedition differs from treason in that it doesn’t require an act of war against a state but only a mere advocacy or conspiracy to qualify. And by that definition, Marc Elias and Mark Pomerantz committed sedition against the sitting government, which was the Republican President Trump. Our means of resolving political disputes are elections, and they sought to tamper with them, in one way by fighting challenges in court because the process exceeded the timelines, so Elias could run out the clock in court filings because of the need to put Biden in as president was faster than the courts could process the evidence. Elias also knew that the courts and the political machine itself could not afford to let people know the truth about the election fraud they had used to get rid of Trump. They didn’t like Trump and they all did what they did to remove him from office. They didn’t expect people to know what they were doing and stay angry about it for the next four years. https://youtu.be/3TRkuSGkx9c?si=FXzMhXZLkjmsZ8Mp

And Mark Pomerantz was going to validate what Elias was doing by ensuring that there was never another head-to-head matchup that would show what they did to cheat in the election. In 2020, COVID-19 was used to change election standards, which allowed for massive cheating, which they couldn’t do again in another election. So, the big fear, once Trump survived everything, was to get rid of his ability to run again with court challenges that would destroy him as a person because they had to maintain the coverup of the 2020 election fraud. Once Trump was on stage with Biden for that June 2024 CNN debate, everyone knew, especially Marc Elias, that they would not be able to get 81 million votes for Joe Biden again. They didn’t get it the first time because they had allowed voter irregularities to be counted as actual votes, and those people weren’t real. And with all the eyes on the situation, they knew they had to try something else, so they put Kamala Harris in the role and pushed out Joe because if they had a head-to-head matchup, it would be obvious what they had all done four years prior, and they couldn’t afford that.

So don’t imagine that everyone has suddenly become cooperative and that Marc Elias and Mark Pomerantz are victims looking over their shoulders at a president who named them precisely at a speech at the DOJ where there is a new, aggressive Attorney General. And that it’s unfair to go after political enemies. No, these guys are more than political enemies. They inspired sedition against our country, against our election system, so that they could erode trust in our election system at the most fundamental level. And they weren’t just trying to destroy Trump and his family. They were sending a message to everyone who supported him that we didn’t have control of our government. They were in charge, and if they had been allowed to stand, if they had succeeded in keeping Trump from running again, which they tried everything in their power to do, we would have officially lost our government to this fourth branch Deep State government where lawyers like these two seditious characters ran cover for a corrupt system that steals money from the people and gives it to themselves as the corrupt aristocracy of nonrepresentative government. And they all got caught, and they are only being friendly and cooperative now because they hope their guilt is never revealed. But Trump called these two out because they must be an example. And he will slow cook them, let them sweat it out because they deserve punishment and more. They are evil people, and any capacity for compassion toward their intentions has long expired. And they have to be punished for the sedition they utilized against the United States of America. Not because they went after Trump. But they tried to steal our government from us and then cover up their crime with further crimes. And we can’t have that. So they must be punished in a way that will give pause to the many others lingering in the background, thinking of doing worse if they can get away with it.

Rich Hoffman

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Protestors Aren’t Valued: Threats of violance are not replacements for good debate

I would say it was a fortunate thing for me to see; after all, that’s what I was after when my wife and I recently took a vacation to Washington, D.C. Within a few days, I was able to see protestors up close and personal in places where they cause the most trouble, and they answered questions I had been having by seeing them up close and personal. The first group I encountered was at the Mall in Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The second was just a few days later in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. Later that same night, I saw protestors at the Lakota school emergency meeting on school funding who were there to shout down local political representatives who were called to answer for depletions for school funding. These protestors were the “always more money” types without ever demonstrating why spending more money would ever make anything better but to push a few more of them into diabetic medicine because of their terrible diets. By the looks of their girth around the waist, they could afford to skip a few meals and more money would only make their problems worse. That was the same problem with the protestors in Columbus; they were screaming for more school funding without demonstrating how more money would improve anything. Then, of course, the protestors at the Mall were protesting Elon Musk’s attack on science when, in reality, he is personally doing more to enhance science than anybody in the world. They were all such negative people who were very difficult to have any relationship with because the nature of their existence was below the line, and to my way of thinking, that makes them impossible to work with. You can’t build a prosperous society with below-the-line people by using a business metaphor popular in efficiency discussions. Negative people drowning in their misery need fulfillment that they can’t give themselves, which they misperceive as more of something to cover what is lost in themselves.

I have a lifestyle that moves very fast. I do a lot more during a typical day than most people will do in a month. I don’t say that I want to put anybody down, but yeah, many people waste time talking about nothing, and I am not one of them. I find something else to do when I sense that someone is wasting my time. So I don’t get to see these kinds of protestors very often because I live my life in a way that doesn’t have time for them. I don’t value what their problems are because I see Democrat politics as a political expression of a broken person who has not dealt with their deficient thinking. And broken people are not equal to people who purposefully live good lives. It is not correct or fair to penalize a good person with the thoughts of a bad person. As defined here, an evil person is a person who allows bad decisions to govern their existence purposefully. We aren’t talking about a mistake in judgment here and there; we are talking about purposeful neglect, using victimization status to avoid doing work, solving a problem, or even raising kids. My experience with school funding protestors, for instance, is that they are surface-level people who do not have the self-confidence to raise their children, so the fantasy of state ownership of their children means they can appear to the world to care for their kids but what it does is allow them to blame someone else for the deficiencies of their children’s growth. It’s much easier to blame a teacher or school funding when the real problem is the parents themselves. The public education debate allows them to defer their responsibility in contributing to the problem because if only more money were spent on the children, nobody would notice that the protester is just a bad parent and probably a bad person.

Another aspect of this whole issue is that bad people, such as protestors, have been able to hide their failures behind the value of free speech. In our form of government, where we encourage debate, we have not set a high enough bar, which is now occurring, for the quality of an opinion. Instead, protestors were celebrated for participating in the free speech debate, which is the cornerstone of our Republic, because they stood around like idiots holding a sign, protesting something. Rather than present a reasonable argument about something that could be debated, they fall into the Al Green side of victimization protest, copying what they think worked during the Civil Rights movement. So let me explain something about all that. The Democrats wanted to erase their sins of the past of being slaveholders, and Lyndon Johnson was in the White House looking to bridge that gap and steal the merit away from Republicans who had been championing Civil Rights for people of color all along. The protests of the flower children during that period were not the mechanism that launched reform. It was the cover story of actual guilt that Democrats wanted to rid themselves of through the optics of protest. So, the protests are not what moved the legislative needle on reform. It was only a fake cover story to distract reporters and historians from the Democrat past of alignment on slaveholding as a political party that had been for it but wanted a divorce due to modern pressure to compete with Republicans and maybe even beat them at their own game.

So, the protests never worked. And they certainly won’t work this time. The vicious attacks against Tesla because Elon Musk is the CEO of the company only remind people of the kind of negative people who turn to protest rather than logical arguments and further root the MAGA movement to a growing audience. The destruction or else form of political debate isn’t going to work. They think that if they threaten to destroy property or even fight you in the parking lot of a public school, you will be compelled to see things their way for your safety and desire to preserve your property. These people caught on camera keying the paint job of Tesla owners is the worst form of grievance jealousy that is attempting to disguise a flawed and broken person behind the value of the First Amendment. But because they can’t articulate a debate, they only have the threat of violence and destruction as a counterpoint. But if they run into MAGA supporters who are better at violence and fighting than they are, well, then they are in real trouble. I certainly don’t have room or tolerance for one bit of bad behavior and below-the-line thinkers. I’ll listen to a reasonable debate, but to be honest, I sniff things out very fast and determine if someone is wasting my time, and I will move beyond them quicker than they can blink. And I’m certainly not alone in this. These protestors will not recreate the past hippie movement protests and get legislative representation. They will be left behind because that is the mode of the world. I would say that it was always that way and that protests in America were more theater than substance. But it’s even more so today, and seeing the early strategy against the Trump administration in general by protestors without an argument, they will not be successful because all they have to offer is violence. And the people they are threatening aren’t going to put up with it.

Rich Hoffman

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Why America is the Best: Understanding Gideon and George Washington

While visiting George Washington’s home at Mt. Vernon, I was very interested in why it is OK for us to say that America is the best country on earth and that we should preserve it very boisterously. And why George Washington? Well, we named our capital city after him and think of him as the ultimate Founding Father, the pacesetter who started something new in the world, and we have measured everything thereafter with him in mind. So, what made George Washington so great? And why do Americans feel like they must always tell the world that they are the best and greatest? Our form of government is by far the best, and it’s an unquestioned reality. But if you’ve ever traveled the world and dined with acquaintances from other countries, and you’re watching a news report in which someone from America comes on and says that America is the best country on earth, it can get a little weird. In that case, it can be a little uncomfortable because the people you eat at the table think the same about their country. What makes it more accurate for us in the United States than for them, whoever they are? That’s happened to me a lot of times. Yet, I think Americans should say such a thing because I believe our form of government is superior to that of anywhere in the world and that we should be proud of it. We should even brag about it like we do. But why? You can understand something instinctively, but to actually “know” it requires much more understanding and perspective, which is undoubtedly the case with this topic. And now that I’ve visited Mt. Vernon with my wife, George Washington’s home, I think I understand it much better.

I think the key to understanding why America is the best country in the world is literally a “key.” The key that George Washinton used to hang in the entry to his house that his friend and long lost adopted son Marquis de Lafayette gave to him that used to be the key to the Bastille’s main gate, once the French stormed it and destroyed it as a symbol of tyranny during the French Revolution. George Washington kept it to show how a country can overthrow tyranny, and even though the French Revolution got well out of hand while the American Revolution slightly before it was much more civil and orderly, the reminder that the people ultimately have the power to rule over themselves was represented in the key, which Washington understood as literally the key to setting up a proper government for the people and by the people. George Washington liked his house so much that he didn’t want to be away from it with commitments to power and was always reluctant to achieve any high office. But as to that as well, why? Then, of course, you would have to understand the Bible, the primary literary entertainment at the time of these revolutions, and the forming of our country. They didn’t have television shows or music to entertain themselves with thought, but they did have the Bible. And George Washington would have shared the Bible with just about everyone pursuing a life of thoughtful understanding. One thing that I have always thought about Biblical studies is that they are narratively, really insightful, psychologically. I’ve read most of the foundation religious texts of the world, and I can say that the Bible is a brilliant enterprise that served as a good guide through the foundation of a new country. It was the first to figure itself out, as the Bible had spent the previous 1500 years being fleshed out as an idea. And the ideas formulated in the Bible essentially laid the groundwork for the creation of America. So George Washington, by way of dinner conversation, would have spent a lot of time reading and talking about the Bible with his dinner guests at Mt. Vernon, which would have happened all the time.

I spent most of the previous year leading up to Trump’s election reading various books about George Washington because I felt that the world would need to understand what was about to happen, and to understand America, you have to understand George Washington. And to understand that, you must understand George Washington’s home of Mt. Vernon. So that’s what my wife and I did to celebrate Trump being back in the White House; we visited Mt. Vernon to unpack why putting Trump back in as President was necessary and why he should be so boisterous about why America was the best country. It ultimately comes down to how George Washington thought and how much the Bible influenced him, especially the Book of Judges and the character within that book of Gideon, the military hero who saved Israel with only 300 men but was the reluctant hero always trying to downplay his efforts. I often see our form of government as a republic as a deliberate attempt to fix the problems in the Book of Judges, where God wanted people to rule themselves. Still, the failure of the regional judges drove the Hebrew people to demand a king to rule over them. The wheels fell off the apple cart, leaving the kingdom to become divided by God’s anger after the death of King Solomon.

I think Washington modeled himself after Biblical characters with his approach to leadership and, most notably, Gideon himself. Gideon’s conquests led to 40 years of peace during the rest of his lifetime. Still, before he died, he had made a gold ephod from the spoils of war that some Israelites began to worship. Once Gideon wasn’t around anymore, idolatry started to poison the minds of the people, and one of his 70 sons, Abimelech, led an uprising that killed all the others and drove them to a fallen society. Thinking about human nature through this story, George Washington was trying not to make the mistakes of Gideon. Rather than become just another corrupt king with multiple wives, like Gideon, Washington stayed loyal to Martha and kept himself grounded at Mt. Vernon all his life before and after the Revolution and his two terms as President. George fought off the hungry temptation to be romantic with Sally Fairfax, the wife of his very good friend William, and the couple for which Fairfax County is named today. But being inspired by Bible stories, Washington wanted to avoid those pitfalls and stayed grounded throughout his life. However, once he was out of office, like Gideon’s sons, it was hard to pull together a republic without everyone fighting all the time, which was undoubtedly the case with subsequent presidents like Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. And like the story of the Book of Judges, leadership always failed. And the way that America set up its republic form of government to resist those temptations, for society to call out for a king and to give them unlimited power, our government was built on the Book of Judges from the beginning to correct it. That was certainly at the core of George Washington’s belief and why he thought the key to the Bastille was so important. It was more important for people to rule themselves and to throw off the oppressors of social order than to conform to it. Because once a person has collected such power, as the Bible shows, they all fail. So Washington and our American form of government set everything up to resist that temptation and to give people just enough power, knowing that the faults of humanity were always very close. And like his temptations with Sally Fairfax, he would keep those lusts cool and always on the back burner, where they belonged. If a leader can’t govern their emotions, how can they govern other people? Because of these concerns, and after several hundred years, they led to President Trump, who found that balance late in life on his own terms. We can say that America is better than all other forms of government because it was built with these concerns in mind, which had previously destroyed every society people had in it. And we have now sustained ourselves for many centuries on a premise of restraint, which George Washinton started, based on the Bible story of Gideon, the reluctant military general whom God worked through directly to save his people, even if only for a short time.

Rich Hoffman

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Showing Respect for the Capitol Building: The difference between censoring Al Green, and the J6 protestors

I was standing next to Speaker Johnson’s office door with Steve Scalise when they had departed from the Well due to the censoring of Al Green. And their strategy, the low-life Democrats, was to sing in protest in solidarity for their fallen friend, the leftist radical who protested at Trump’s State of the Union speech just a few days prior. Without a doubt, I would not have been standing in front of that same door just a few months earlier while Nancy Pelosi was in charge of being a speaker in that same position. With Republicans in charge of the House and Senate, I liked the Capitol building a lot more. And I was proud of Republicans for censoring Green for being disruptive and disrespectful. I think nobody should even enter the Capitol building without a jacket and tie, so his goofy ponytail is not something I have any tolerance for. And as I stood there, I thought about the difference between what the Democrats had done to protest Trump and what Trump supporters had done on January 6th of 2021, and I felt more resolved than ever in the differences. In the case of Al Green, Speaker Johnson showed respect for the voters’ decisions and protected the conduct within the People’s House, where the “people’s” business was to be done. While on the January 6th protests that Democrats tried to paint as an “insurrection” against our government where people were harmed and killed through violent actions, the government was working against the people and showing them disrespect in insisting that a process be altered that would have prevented election fraud, and remove the people’s pick for representation. So they were not the same things at all, even though they were both a form of protest. So when Johnson put down the gavel to declare a recess, the protestors were cleared out after the censor vote of Al Green. I was proud of him and his fellow Republicans for protecting civility so good work could be done in that magnificent building.

I do a thing that I think is helpful on a quantum level: when President Trump gives vital and specific speeches that are life-changing, I like to backtrack his steps so that I can absorb the neutrinos that fly through that area and still carry information from the event itself through quantum entanglement. This means that even if years have passed since the event, standing in the same spot where Trump gave a speech can still have information residue from that event, and for me, it helps me see the world the way that Trump saw it when he gave the speech. I have done that at Mt. Rushmore with the big speech Trump gave in South Dakota during the last year of his presidency during the first term. It was a very dark time when I visited the spot where he spoke then, and it helped me to walk in the shoes of Trump and measure the courage it took to deliver that groundbreaking, patriotic speech. And, of course, there was this visit to the Capitol building, which I felt I had to do: stand in the Rotunda where Trump gave his magnificent Inauguration speech for 2025. My wife and I found the place on the floor where he spoke, and we looked out into the room the way that Trump would have seen it, full of people packed tightly together. It looked great on camera, but in person, it was a tight space with incredible historical meaning. And it lived up to the lofty ambitions of the Capitol itself.

Time is not as linear as we would like to think it is; time folds over and reoccurs through particle science, even over thousands of years. The thought is that neutrino particles travel faster than the speed of light and bounce all over the universe constantly, and information is carried quantumly outside of dimensional space that may be located in specific places relative to time. In ghost hunting, we call those hauntings where a person’s spirit or the recording of an event in time still resides on that quantum wave carrying just the shadow of the event itself. But even in places like the Capitol building, where many things have happened over the years, most pass by uneventfully and don’t carry much weight in the scheme of things. But these days, since Trump’s inauguration, there has been a lot happening, and much of it has been considerable and meaningful, and you can feel that overlap of quantum science if you are tuned into it a bit, and it carries with it extra meaning and information. With that said, I enjoyed visiting the Capitol with my wife. We watched the censor activities and looked around in the crypt where George Washington was supposed to be buried, but he abandoned the enterprise, preferring to be buried on his property instead upon his death, which is more of that particle science that I was talking about, something that the Egyptians thought an awful lot about. And we enjoyed the grandeur of the place built to carry human efforts to maximum output. The building was fantastic, but people often don’t meet its lofty expectations.

The spot where Trump spoke during his inauguration

We spent the day at the Capitol, getting to know it the way I thought it deserved to be understood, especially in the context of history. I believe that America is just getting started and that all the intentions of building that building were getting underway instead of what they tell you on the tours, discussing the history of the place. It has taken America a few hundred years to figure out what we should be doing with places like our Capitol building. Closing the doors and prosecuting J6th protestors was not one of them. But censoring the pony-tail hippie protestor, Al Green, was. As my wife and I grabbed a hamburger in the Capitol cafeteria, with other elected officials running around doing the same, many of the people we see on television all the time, the world was a much better place with Republicans controlling the House and Senate. The Capitol building was built to carry America to lofty, ambitious ideas of law and order. Of serious philosophic consideration and historical significance. And Democrats were trying to avoid those lofty concepts with flower child protests and victimization politics, which was disrespectful to the building itself. Speaker Johnson and the majority of the Republicans were paying respect to the process of doing business in our Capitol building, and all was good. But in J6, the people were there to remove those disrespecting the place with physical force. And in many ways, because of that, the Capitol was living up to its historical significance. The Trump speech in the rotunda probably never would have happened, but because it had, the people’s business was getting done, and the tolerance for villainy, and disrespect was very low these days, which I wanted to see for myself and was confirmed. I love our Capitol building and would encourage all who enter there to be lofty and have high expectations for themselves and the business conducted there. You are lucky to have the chance, so live up to it, and do not cry about silly things. And don’t go there looking like a slob with a ponytail to protest whether or not Trump had a mandate by the people to do their work. History will never forget it, but long after many of those protestors are long gone, they and their lack of ambition will carry nothing to be remembered and their lives will be thrown away worthlessly toward ambitions not worthy of such a grand place as the U.S. Capitol building. And for anyone who goes, wear a suit or tie while doing business there. Show respect!

Rich Hoffman

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The Hidden Menace Behind 16th Street: Marxist radicals behind labor unions

First, let me explain what is wrong with labor unions. They allow bad employees to hide behind good employees, and as a collective practice, they water down effectiveness. They view as work the entire enterprise of labor as being for the worker, not the work being done. And it has been a disastrous experiment from the mind of Marxist thinkers. I know in this new big tent MAGA movement that lots of union workers crossed over and voted for President Trump, so debate about labor unions is on the back burner these days, and Right To Work legislation in the states is less of a topic, even though its still a big deal for employers, because business enterprises don’t want to be stuck taking all the risks only to have a radical Marxist enterprise of low performing workers take control of labor management with a bunch of dumb, ineffective rules. For Ohio to be a proper pro-business state, employers will need the assurance of a Right to Work state like Indiana has just to the west. Otherwise, it’s not an apples-to-apples offering. From my point of view, I don’t see anything good about labor unions. They are the heart of the problem of school funding and have been a disaster since they were introduced in the middle of the 19^th century, right along with Marxism. The two things are tied together and have been horrible for the world. So, with all that in mind, I wondered about the Black Lives Matters plaza painting on the ground on 16^th Street in front of the White House before President Trump had it removed this past week. I wanted to see it before it was gone forever, and what I found there was even worse than I had imagined. The root cause of the problems was, of course, labor unions.

During the hostile 2020 election year with all the Covid lockdowns and radical Soros backed color revolutions that were trying to burn down the church at the end of 16^th Street, and vandalize Lafayette Square while the FBI, CIA, and many fourth branch of government Deep Staters plotted the destruction of the people’s pick for President, Trump, lunatics from the known Marxist group Black Lives Matters painted their logo on the street in giant letters to let the White House know that the aggressors of political destruction was on the doorstep of the White House. All this activity was evident from inside the White House, and it was meant to intimidate Trump and his supporters into bowing down to a proposed fight that was highly aggressive. Later, I learned that this was not just a painted road but that the letters “Black Lives Matter” were actually embedded into the blocks of the street itself, so just painting over it wouldn’t get rid of the message. We also later learned that the taxpayers were on the hook for the vandalism that cost over 8 million dollars and was personally endorsed by the mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser. The painting was an intended message of aggression attempting to hide actual terrorism behind some guilt-driven sentiment left over from the years of slavery, which were always a Democrat issue. Republicans freed the enslaved people and do not harbor guilt in maintaining the institution. One of the most excellent Republicans in the history of politics was Frederick Douglass, who was very well-known during President Grant’s reconstruction period after the Civil War, a very prominent person of color and proud Republican member of history’s politics. Democrats have tried to capture the issue over the next hundred years to attempt to erase their guilt from it, creating many of the modern tensions we see today.

Republicans have learned a lot from the experience and are pushing back, led by President Trump. As my wife and I visited the city recently, it is being cleaned up everywhere. Trump has set a high bar that should have always been in place, and other Republicans, such as Representative Andrew Clyde, are pushing to withhold federal transportation funds unless Bowser gets rid of the Black Lives Matter painting and renames the plaza “Liberty Plaza.” So, a lot is going on that I wanted to see for myself, and upon arriving, a clarity that had not been explained in the news reports became very clear. Because all through this, my thoughts were, “What do these businesses in the area think about this stupid, Marxist painting? I wouldn’t want to look out my windows down onto the street and see such a think with crazy radicals looming from the shadows to take over the city on a moment’s notice essentially.” And that’s when I saw that there on 16^th street were many of the big unions, the Labor’s International Union, the AFL-CIO union, and the Motion Picture’s Association of America. These are all radical Marxist groups and the reason we haven’t heard about them is because many of the people who are in the news reporting industry belong to an entertainment union of some kind, especially the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, (AFTRA) which is part of SAG, (the Screen Actors Guild), so they can’t be too critical of labor union activity. This allows these horrendously radical progressive groups- and when we say “progressive,” we mean “communist” in their sentiments to cause trouble in the background without recourse. Now we know why nobody talked about the kind of businesses that allowed for that painting to be painted on the street in the first place.

The real fight, clearly on display on 16^th Street looming over the President’s house, that we put our representatives into, is that massive international unions are fighting for power and are proclaiming that they are in charge. They used the George Floyd issue to blow into the Marxist minds of the fans to hide violence and intimidation behind a race war; they were trying to get Trump out of office and to remove any influence that voters had over the city of Washington, D.C. The unions were in charge, and they let everyone know about it. But the key to fighting them is not confronting them directly, as we have in the past. Labor unions consume a considerable amount of tax money to exist. So the way to beat them, which is why President Trump has not worried about them too much and even appeals to their members, is to take away their power, which is fed by confiscated taxpayer money. That’s ultimately what got Muriel Bowser’s attention, pulling away her federal funds for sponsoring acts of terrorism disguised as race concerns. Democrats caused race concerns in the first place. That painting has been like a planted flag in front of our house for years and is only now being removed. But before it was, I had to see it for myself, so my wife and I visited it a few days before the road crews came in and ripped it out of the ground. But those labor unions are still hiding behind the public noise, waiting for another chance to strike. They are the fuel in the background that stirs up these terrorist acts, just as they are all over the world. And are the root cause of most of our problems of domestic terrorism in American society. And to deal with them, we must remove their funding so they have nothing to work with. Because the longer they exist, they will always be causing trouble toward America’s destruction, which is their objective. They will never be our friends; as a general rule, they should be illegal in every form they present themselves in.

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George Lang Tried to Tell Them: Woke politics is why Lakota is losing money

To answer the question that was asked at the March 12^th special meeting of the Lakota school board, why were they losing around 9 million dollars out of their quarter of a billion dollar budget to Ed Choice vouchers and could they sue the state for money they assumed was guaranteed to them, a little fog has to be removed from the subject. I was in Columbus for Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech, and there were education protesters in the rotunda making a lot of noise and looking horrible doing it. Legislators were working on the new budget, and the fear was that public schools would lose money, which is the trend across the country. Now, I warned everyone this day was coming, that Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education would be dismantled, and education funding would be built in a more competitive direction. What we have been doing has not been working. People worried about the future should be happy that Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be the next governor of Ohio, wants to pay teachers more. He is a lot nicer on the issue than I am. And for that matter, my personal friend Senator George Lang is too. They believe that public education can be saved in some way, whereas I do not. I think institutional learning is beyond help, but that’s why there are debates in government and education. Employees should at least be happy that Vivek and Lang are of like mind and want to preserve public education somehow. Yet the protesters at the Statehouse were not the kind of people that made you want to dig deep into your pockets and give them more money. They all looked pretty ragged and as though they needed to skip a few meals. They sounded like entitled losers demanding more money in the budget from Ohio taxpayers who have not been given a good product that makes society better.

So I was outside the Representative’s Chamber talking to several of our area politicians of Butler County and they were asking me if I was going to the emergency Lakota meeting where the plan was for them to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit against the state because Lakota was losing funding due to parents choosing to use the voucher programs already in place to give education options to their children. When they asked me, I was already thinking about it; my phone had been lighting up for the previous 24 hours from people asking me to go because it was an emergency. Lakota was already trying to build the foundations for a tax increase to pay for a facility project they were planning to vote for soon, for many millions of dollars for what was turning out to be a pretty crappy product. And the kind of people who plan to work against that tax increase wanted me to see for myself just how ridiculous Lakota schools had become. I was reluctant; I have not paid much attention to Lakota schools since they ran off just the latest conservative school board member the previous year. I have worked to give Lakota a school board of reasonable people to deal with the coming education challenges, and their reaction was more radicalism like the idiots I saw in the rotunda, so I wasn’t too keen on the idea. I was talking to Representative Jennifer Gross and Thomas Hall, among other people who were equally concerned about the invite they had to join in this special meeting. And as we discussed in Columbus, my comment was that it was a hit job by the school board to set up our representatives so they could have an excuse to blame them for why they had to join the lawsuit. I will credit them: Senator George Lang, Representative Thomas Hall, and Representative Jennifer Gross all attended the meeting by phone because they were either still in Columbus or, in George’s case, out of the state. But they lent their voices in surprisingly effective ways. I decided to return from Columbus and attend the meeting in person because it seemed like a good chance to see the new school board and administrators. After all the mess over the former superintendent, Matt Miller and a purge of personnel since then my attitude toward public funding of schools was that Trump was going to be re-elected, he was going to dismantled the Department of Education and all education issues were going back to the states where people like Vivek Ramaswamy was going to have to figure out how to compete against other states. The teacher’s union-run public education system was a thing of the past. I tried to warn everyone, but they didn’t listen.

And I was right about the meeting. Our area representatives did a nice job providing comments about whether or not school vouchers were here to stay in public education or whether it was a fad that would fade away. After the remarks were given, the school board did what they went there to do: they voted to join the lawsuit to get money from taxpayers they had not earned. It’s the case that will lose in court a few years down the road because people can’t be compelled to purchase a bad product, and public education has shown itself to be deficient in every way it is measured. The school board’s plan was to blame the politicians who had not secured funding for their bottomless pit approach to school budgets. However, the representatives did so well that it wasn’t easy to blame them for the existence of school vouchers such as the Ed Choice program.

George Lang told them that the cause of parents wanting to leave Lakota schools through a voucher was the fault of the school itself for accepting woke politics that those parents didn’t want their kids exposed to. It was a blunt statement, but it was given with as much love as could be provided in that circumstance. And the large audience attending, representing the teacher’s union mentality, the same kind of people protesting at the Statehouse rotunda earlier that day laughed and heckled George with boisterous sentiment. As Doug Horton wanted to put on a show to fight George, as did another school board member and the new superintendent, the comment was the truth behind the matter. Increasingly, Lakota schools would have to compete for every kid enrolled there, and their funding approach was dependent on their ability to be an education destination instead of funding attached to the zip code. And the bottom line was that people who wanted to take their kids out of Lakota schools and drive them across town to another school was because more and more parents didn’t want to share space or time with the kind of people who were giggling at George Lang. We just watched that same school board run off Darbi Bobby, the previous school board member representing a percentage of the Lakota population. And she was just the recent. This has been the practice of Lakota’s school board, to control the message by eliminating dissenting opinions because the system isn’t designed to deal with actual management. And if only 4 to 12% of the total Lakota population found they didn’t want to deal with transgender politics, or essentially the Democrat party platform which comes with just about all public education enterprises, then given a choice, which is only going to expand under President Trump and future governor Vivek Ramaswamy, parents would take their kids out of Lakota so not to deal with people like Doug Horton and the rest of the school board. Their desire to fight George Lang over the truth that he tried to give them, bluntly, was the same thing driving away the dollars they thought they were entitled to have in the form of a budget. Just a preview of that court case: the courts will not favor these collective schools joined under the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit because you can’t compel people, such as taxpayers, to buy a bad product. And public education has become a lousy product over time with gross mismanagement everywhere. We also saw examples of bad management at that Lakota school board meeting with clueless people and their very liberal politics. Parents don’t want to share space with people who don’t share their values, and they are picking up and moving to other options because of woke politics. The blame for that falls on the people who dug in and retained that system, which never worked—and instead insisted on throwing more money at a failed approach. Rather than looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for the issue, they tried to blame everyone else for why they were being rejected under a competitive approach. And that of course, won’t solve the school funding problem. You can’t pave over the problem with more money. You have to actually solve the problem, which are the people in public education themselves. Parents want to reject having to deal with people who don’t share their values. And if Lakota wants to survive into the future, it is going to have to make itself more competitive in attracting dollars, like everyone else in the world has to.

If you listen to the school board meeting from March 12, 2025, included here, you will hear the audience get into an uproar whenever George Lang spoke, as he became the target of the teacher union types due to his opening statements about wokeness in Lakota schools. George was speaking his opinion on the matter, and those people in the audience, and some of the school board members themselves, fed into that communication. So for Doug Horton and the rest of the mystified cast of characters at Lakota schools, that is your answer as to why parents are looking for School Choice options. Think of the soccer mom who voted for Trump at a Friday night football game. Or a Republican is at an art show for their child at school, and they are interacting with these liberal radicals advocating for transgender bathrooms. Do you think they want to be made fun of like that audience did to George Lang? Senator Lang is a professional who is used to that kind of thing and likes it. But does the average family attending schools at Lakota want to deal with people like this? Of course not. Do they want to fight with people like that? They saw what they did, including that school board, to Darbi Boddy and other conservative school board members from the past. Rather than fight those people, they look for a school voucher and take their kid to a school they think is nicer and better for them and their children. That is why people are fleeing the Lakota district, and George was trying very nicely to tell the Lakota school board that to survive in the future, they need to make it so people want to attend Lakota. But not that people who have different ideas about things are going to be beat over the head with Democrat politics and that they have to take it because there are no other education options. Parents want options and don’t want to deal with political radicals who do not share their fundamental social values. That’s why Lakota lost that 9 million dollars out of their budget and why they are projected to lose a lot more than that. It’s because they have mismanaged the district with the assumption that the children were theirs and not managed by the parents who want the best opportunity for their children. And by choice, parents have reasoned that Lakota is not it for them. It’s Lakota’s job to convince them otherwise. Not to sue for money they did not earn.

The trend of today, with D.O.G.E. and the massive cuts to the Department of Education, and the election of Trump and others to office positions, George Lang included, as well as the future of Vivek Ramaswamy, are because the employees of government, such as Lakota schools, failed. Protesting against voters’ choices will not solve the problem of how people came to feel the way they did. Government employees, including school teachers and administrators, did not provide a good product, and people have come to admit that their service was not worth the money. That is the environment in which Lakota schools and many other school districts find themselves. And it won’t get better for them. They thought that the politics of guilt would last forever and the entire levy structure of using children to acquire more tax revenue to feed greedy, liberal unions would always continue. But the truth is, as we know it today, public education is a thing of the past, and it’s never coming back. People, if given a choice, will not choose to spend their time around people who are hostile to them. The way these radicals shut down opposition at school board meetings in general is why the Trump administration is opening up School Choice options and sending their management back to the states. The radicals had five decades to figure it out, and what they gave us is embarrassing at best and certainly not worth the money we’ve spent on it. So, who is to blame? Attend a school board meeting and witness the quality of the people screaming for more money, and the answer will quickly become apparent. The current school structure, where money is attached to a zip code rather than the child, is like the Berlin Wall trying to kill people attempting to escape to the West. The mentality is the same, and the more the teachers’ unions dig in, the more people want to be as far away from them as possible. And the people they vote for in office are those who will give them options away from those radical government employees.

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DeWine’s State of the State Speech: Lakota schools plots their own demise

Oddly enough, while I was in Columbus to attend the Governor’s State of the State speech, it was Lakota schools that everyone was talking about, and they wanted to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit. But in many ways, that wasn’t surprising, and it was confirmed again in Mike DeWine’s speech that day. Years and years of kicking the can down the road in all these public schools were catching up to them, and the bill was due, and nobody knew what to do about it. Governors like DeWine have done for decades what they were now doing at Lakota schools around 91 miles to the south in Butler County, Ohio, they were writing tax payer checks for a product and service that fewer and fewer people wanted, and now with Trump in the White House, the warnings I have been giving everyone about what was going to happen are coming true. Instead of getting out in front of these funding problems, Lakota schools dug in and became more woke. Senator Lang tried to tell them on a call later that day after the Governor’s speech, but the school system had dug in the opposite direction. Others and I have tried to give Lakota conservative board members a chance to deal with this issue, and their response as a school board was to run them all off, and that extends beyond Darbi Boddy, the most recent that they found some way to push out of management. And like things are where liberal types run things, everything costs too much money, and now Trump was cutting back the Department of Education and gubernatorial candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy was talking about significant reforms in education with merit pay, leaving schools like Lakota to join lawsuits with other schools having the same problem, hoping that some sixties flowerchild protest might recover for them a silly little 9 million dollar loss that has come out of their budget due to students utilizing Ed Choice vouchers that are now expanding under the Trump administration and flowing down through the states. For perspective, Lakota schools in Butler County, Ohio, has a quarter of a billion dollar budget, and that’s still not enough money to fund education the way they want to.

And you know what makes me the angriest about all this? I didn’t get any of Fran’s cookies this year. Fran is Mike DeWine’s long-time and very dedicated wife, who typically gives them out to attendees of her husband’s speech in the rotunda. This year, activists were there chanting for more money as they felt the pinch from a social disconnect from the standard old traditional funding model of public education. To avoid the activists, DeWine was ushered away underground to safety, leaving the rest of us to watch their bizarre and out-of-touch rituals with curiosity. The Lakota situation was the topic of conversation because they are one of the largest districts in Ohio, and so went them, so went everyone. And that was kind of a proper metaphor for DeWine’s State of the State speech. A do-gooder Governor tosses money at public education and hopes that everything will work well for the kids. But its these crazy labor unions with woke politics that have screwed up the funding model because people don’t like the product. And school vouchers, much less restricted these days and growing more so, are giving parents the choice away from their zip code schools where they pay enormous property taxes to fund a political movement they hate essentially. And Lakota schools were right in the middle of the spectacle leaving DeWine to give just another empty speech about the value of education, and sending books in the mail to students to help with literacy, when the real problem was significant and ominous, and far beyond at this point just passing out cookies in the Statehouse Rotunda to ease tempers. Legislators were in the middle of the budgeting process for public education at the time of this speech, but the government unions want to cry and protest for money that just isn’t there and aren’t willing to deal with the reality of the coming changes. And those legislators were mad at what Lakota was thinking of doing then, which they did later that evening. So it wasn’t a good move by the Lakota School Board. But I tried to warn everyone, and they didn’t listen. Much more on that to come.

The main thing in DeWine’s speech was that the Governor came to the speech like an old grandpa that went out to dinner the night before to eat barbeque ribs and still had on a bib from that experience the next day when he thought he was showing up for dinner in a nice suit and tie. DeWine was out of step and slightly behind the rest of the world for his sixth year in office, most of which had not been very good, especially during the COVID-19 years. But watching him speak, I thought of him as a nice guy who has been constantly suckered by the same kind of losers who protest education funding, like the people who greeted him upon leaving the State of the State peech. The old flowerchild strategy of crying like some baby bird until mother government drops a worm in its mouth has long been exhausted, and DeWine never understood it. He’s a good man from a political generation that caused all these problems and doesn’t know what to do about it. We have to wait another year or so before we get Vivek Ramaswamy and tackle some of these key issues because just throwing money at problems is not what voters will do in the future.

The best thing about DeWine’s State of the State speech was the expansion of business enterprise in Ohio, specifically the Andruil factory just south of Columbus and the Intel facility to the north. There was a lot to talk about, and for DeWine’s credit, many people have been working in the background to make Ohio a much more business-friendly state. At least DeWine hasn’t stood in the way of those efforts; he’s been willing to tag along. We’ll get a lot more with Vivek Ramaswamy as Governor, but since DeWine was able to part ways with Amy Acton, the stringy haired hippie who used to be the Health Director during Covid, Ohio has grown more business friendly to make up for their position of lockdown politics that so crippled just about everyone. Over the last couple of years, DeWine has at least not shut the door to companies like Intel, even though it has largely been members of the Senate that paved the way. That’s how government works, and it’s very fascinating. But once the good news was talked about regarding Ohio and DeWine’s speech, the topic went back to the tired old view of the world, and the chants outside could be heard in the chamber, and the reality of places like Lakota schools was coming to fruition. The days of easy money stolen from taxpayers to fund woke causes were over. And many people at the State of the State speech in the Ohio Statehouse were struggling with the ramifications of decades of trying to appease the screams of the teacher union types. But reality has a lot more in store for them than they realize. The result will be more anger at the people running public education and politicians like Mike DeWine ending their terms dismayed while much more innovative people replace them with reforms that will change all the rules. The Lakota School Board, in its current form, is just not prepared to deal with it.

Rich Hoffman

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Capitol Hill is the Most Intelligent Place on Earth: Correcting humanity where they fell short in the Book of Judges

For the first time in my life, I was ready to give Washington D.C. a fair shake, only because Trump was in the White House, and Republicans now controlled the House and the Senate, and the Supreme court has a general 6 to 3 majority toward the thinking I think is necessary in our American Republic. And I would say at no point before this precise moment would I say otherwise, because there has always been something wrong with our system of government which I affiliate with George Washington himself and his attachment to the Bible’s Book of Judges and the character of Gideon. With those political conditions fulfilled, I wanted to return to Washington with a fresh perspective and allow myself to see it the way it was designed to be, not to the level that humans failed to live up to the lofty expectations that established the capital of America to begin with. We typically view these kinds of things by how people fall short of the goals to achieve high honor. But looking at Washington D.C. from the perspective of centuries, not days, weeks, months, or decades, I saw something coming together with Trump that I think our young nation was designed from the beginning to achieve, and now we have arrived at that moment. So, with that in mind, my wife and I allowed ourselves to see Washington from a scholarly perspective and to love it. To come to terms with it. And to help lead it to this next phase of America’s fascinating story and in what I would say was the purpose all along, to restore to humanity the intention established in the Book of Judges to create the kind of government God wanted for the world, from the beginning.

So before my wife and I could do what we intended to do, which was go and spend a few days specifically on Capitol Hill in the legislative corridors itself, then the Library of Congress, as well as a whole day at the Supreme Court, I needed a few days at the Museum of the Bible, and a day a George Washington’s home of Mt. Vernon. We spent significant time on the Mall just reading and thinking and getting away from the noise of the current world and dug deep into the Masonic references that were all over the layout of the city that Pierre L’Enfant had intended with all of George Washington’s Master Mason friends from Alexandria just to the south. To step beyond the conspiracies that have not understood the purpose from the very beginning, which had come into fulfilment through a lot of blood and sacrifice, to what kind of government we now had, with Elon Musk and President Trump up Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, past Ford’s theater where Lincoln was shot, past the Trump hotel that has the steeple of the Old Post Office that points to celestial references on August 12^th from the vantage point of the Capitol steps, to the truth of the matter. And I mention those names, President Trump, and Elon Musk who are new best friends in all sincerity, only America could have produced people like that to do what they are doing now. To see it, I needed to dive deep into Washington D. C’s history, to walk and touch things myself. Over a couple days I bought 56 new books and read most of them by the middle of the following week in a fury because I was looking for an answer and upon visiting Capitol Hill with a fresh perspective and the context of 5000 years of human history, I felt I understood it in the way it was always intended. And I can honestly say that I love the place for all its lofty ambitions.

I was standing outside Speaker Johnson’s office with Steve Scalise when they recessed due to the disruptions in the Well during the censor of Al Green, for the mess he and other Democrats made of themselves during Trump’s State of the Union speech just a few days prior. And I was thinking of that even in the context of the history I referenced. The place itself, Capitol Hill, was dedicated to the best and most intelligent perspective that human beings could strive to unleash, and that was the point of the censor. It wasn’t political as much as an insistence on a specific level of sincerity as a representative republic. As I stood there, I thought of the J6 protestors overwhelming the security and what they were rightfully angry about. The place had failed to live up to the expectations of “The People,” and they were letting the political characters know that they had failed and weren’t entitled to the gifts of Capitol Hill by default. I had been to Washington D.C. on other occasions, but this was the first time with this perspective. After much research, I could honestly say that I understood it as intended. To that point, I had never been to the Library of Congress, even though I’ve had a lot of interactions with it over the years. I was impressed with the Capitol building, but I was astonished at the beauty and splendor of the Library of Congress once we took the tunnel from the Capitol cafeteria after eating some lunch down there with many recognizable characters that are on television all the time, and emerging directly into the basement of the Library of Congress. My first thought was that this was a place intended to be Heaven on Earth, which is what my idea of Heaven would be. The foyer was laced with gold and high ceilings of white marble, which was a purposeful statement about lofty American ambitions. Why isn’t this place promoted more to the outside world? It was every bit as impressive as anything they have in Europe. I would have to say that the Library of Congress is my favorite place on Earth because I love books so much. It is such a collection of intelligence placed into the context of Heavenly ambitions that seeing it in person, then going into the reading room, was as good as Heaven. I could spend an eternity there and never get tired of it.

From there, my wife and I spent the day at the Supreme Court, next door. I asked a lot of questions, so many that we were able to get into places that visitors aren’t typically allowed to go, and of course one of those places was the courtroom itself. But I wanted to see the world the way members of the Supreme Court did. Thinking of the Bible and the laws that successfully made their way into the creation of all Western Civilization, and were the foundations of the American Constitution, here was a place in the Supreme Court that was trying to do what the Israelites couldn’t in the Book of Judges, and that is have a prosperous self-governed society without screaming for a king to rule over them. We sat on the Supreme Court’s steps after much reflection and looked over at the Library of Congress, then the Capitol building right in front of us. I was thinking of Steve Bannon doing his famous podcast behind me over on A Street and all the intelligence happening on that little hill in Washington D.C., and it was the most intelligent place on Earth. Many people don’t live up to that expectation, but the place was built to evoke in people the best they could utter. From my perspective, I could see that it was working, and working better than any place in the world. And finally, after many years of striving, it is evident that the American experiment in republic government, meant to correct humanity where they had failed in the Book of Judges, was succeeding in ways that were always intended. But that it had taken a few hundred years to come into bloom. And it was wonderful to see.

The spot where Trump gave his Inauguration speech

Rich Hoffman

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Why the Museum of the Bible: To understand good government you have to understand what “good” is

Why the Museum of the Bible? Well, that’s a long story, but as I always say about good government, whether managing a family, a business, a community, or a country, you have to understand what good is. And there has been no more extraordinary human achievement than the Bible emerging out of Western Civilization to define goodness as it applies to mass society and personal integrity. I’ve read all the significant works of the world’s religions and studied them in some detail, and I am pretty confident in saying that the Bible and its history have achieved more along the lines of defining good government than any other work to emerge from human culture. So, once Trump was elected back to office, my wife and I wanted to return to Washington, D.C., and give it another chance with fresh, knowledgeable eyes. I have never been a no-government guy or an anarchist in any way. I would say that I have always loved government. But what I didn’t like were the people who were drawn to it. And years ago, during the Clinton years, I took my family to a literary conference at the Smithsonian, where I was a big part of their presentation, and the trip was a disaster. Everywhere we went, there was some horrendous evil that ruined the trip for my wife and kids. So any interactions I have had with Washington, D.C. over the years had to be without her because she refused to give it a chance after the city let her down so badly in the past, which was unfortunate for me. After all, once I saw the Museum of the Bible open in 2017, during Trump’s first term, I really wanted to go and check it out. But I did not have a cooperative spouse willing to go and see it.

But once Trump won in 2024, before his speech was done acknowledging his election victory late on election night, my wife turned to me and said that we should celebrate by going back to Washington D.C. That’s all I needed to hear, so I started planning and we decided to go once the weather broke in early March of 2025, so we could walk around in comfort. Since that first Washington trip, we have been to some of the world’s biggest cities and seen plenty of evil in all of them. But what hit home regarding Washington, D.C. was that it was our city and our government, and we couldn’t stand to see how corrupt it all was. So it was a lot more personal; other cities were other people’s places. But with Trump back in office, a key constitutional element had been fulfilled: we did have a Republic that could correct evil by merit of votes, and the system could work and did. Looking at the city itself from a long perspective, we see that it had the mechanisms to do everything it was designed to do, and we had survived a significant challenge never yet achieved within the human race. And that deserved a celebration. So for me, that means something that involves lots of books and time to read about topics many people find boring. But I get very excited about it, which is the foundation of all law and order. Specifically, one of the Bible’s main themes is how government should be set up. In the Book of Judges, the Israelites were supposed to have self-government, but the judges kept letting everyone down, leaving the people to cry out for a king. So God eventually gave them one, and they let everyone down too. And God became so angry with them that he allowed their destruction by their enemies. A lot like what had occurred in the American city of Washington D.C.

The Founding Fathers, especially Washington himself, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, a whole host of characters were trying to create in America a restoration of the Book of Judges, in my view based on the reportings of their voluminous studies, which I think is a very noble effort and one that does take many thousands of years to figure it out. I felt that the election of Trump during this second term was the first real opportunity for that lofty idea to take hold. And I think the Green family had a sense of this early in the last decade as Trump was still doing The Apprentice television show and thinking about running for President when they were looking for a place to put their idea for a museum dedicated to the Bible. The place for it to be would be Washington D.C. along with all the other fantastic museums they have there. But this one would be the most important because the Bible is the foundation of all Western civilization and the pursuit of good government. The Bible is the foundation of all law and order, starting with the Ten Commandments. Such a concept has been successful, and Washington, D.C. was the direct result of that long-established pursuit. So, if you are thinking about such things, which I do very frequently, when there is a Museum of the Bible, I must see it. So, upon our visit to America’s capital city, we made the Museum of the Bible our first stop for a long week, and we ended up spending two days there because there was so much to see.

I’ve been to many museums, including some of the best in the world, such as the British Museum and the Louvre in Paris, and I consider the Museum of the Bible to be among the best there is. It’s right around the corner from the Capitol building itself and was exceptionally well done. The whole place was put together with much love and passion for the topic. It was very scholarly and was the perfect way to start a trip to Washington D.C. because once you understand what our government is supposed to be doing, you can’t avoid the Bible in that discussion. So, a museum dedicated to the history and value of the Bible in human culture is the first criterion for understanding the need for good government at any level. I could write an entire book about the value of the Museum of the Bible, but to sum things up as concisely as possible, I knew it was a special place when I entered a traveling exhibit they had called the Mosaic of Megiddo which came straight from Israel and was a large floor found in an early Roman building acknowledging Christ as a god around 200 A.D, over 100 years before Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. To see something like that outside of Israel and so significant only established how vital the Museum of the Bible was in the scheme of things. As I always say, my favorite thing in the world are my Biblical Archaeology Review magazines I have read since I was a little kid. And going to the Museum of the Bible was like stepping into that quarterly magazine and living in that world three dimensionally. It is an incredible place, and I don’t think it will be the last time I go there. My wife and I are members and must find more reasons to return. It is a fantastic place worth multiple visits, and a lot of time spent there each time. It is undoubtedly one of the world’s best and most significant museums on a topic that is the foundation of all good government, and because of that, it is infinitely important to the human race.

Rich Hoffman

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