Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Monday, July 28, 2025

Why I believe that critical race theory is unscientific

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Scientific theories must be testable. But if both results are believed to “prove” one right … Suppose I told you that something really crazy...
Monday, July 14, 2025

The “French Revolutionary Wars”: A great European cataclysm

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“Do you hear in the fields The howling of those fearsome soldiers? They are coming into your midst To slit the throats of your sons and con...

Gerald Ford: Owing his presidency to the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

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“In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation , the Vice President shall become President. Whenever th...
Friday, July 4, 2025

In defense of the American Founding Fathers

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“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our ...

In defense of the United States of America

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“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant , to step the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe , Asia and ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Forgotten battlegrounds of World War One: The Balkans and Eastern Europe

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A war that killed at least 15 million people began with two quick gunshots in the Balkans . The fighting of  World War One  began in the  B...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A review of “The Salem Witch Trials” (History Channel)

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“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” – The Hebrew Bible, “The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus,” Chapter 22, Verse 18 (as translated b...
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Jeffrey Sparks
By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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