Dear Friends,

I have had several people ask me if they should be afraid of Muslims.  That's a loaded question.  I have given a lot of thought on what to say and I have a few words to share.  I think we need two views:  the big view, which is Islam, and the smaller view, which is individual Muslims

The Big Picture

In the FBI investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood a document was discovered called "An Explanatory Memorandum"

You can buy it on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Explanatory-Memorandum-Archives-Brotherhood-Security/dp/0982294719/) or download it for free (https://www.defendingourrepublic.com/_files/ugd/b3254e_6d712f9b4ec946e1a3c3dabc34b45f62.pdf).

Here is a quote from that work.  You should check this out for yourself.  "Ikhwan" means brothers or brotherhood.

4- Understanding the role of the Muslim Brother in North America:

The process of settlement is a "Civilization-Jihadist Process" with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions. .... It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes....

This is on pages 16 and 17 of the paperback book, and on page 21 in the PDF.

This is not an extremist view.  It is a plan for implementing Sharia compliant goals.  A good source for understanding Sharia is Islam's Deception: The Truth About Sharia by John D. Guandolo (https://www.amazon.com/Islams-Deception-Truth-About-Sharia/dp/0988724510/)

The issue is Sharia.  You cannot begin to understand what is happening until you have some grasp of Sharia.  My understanding of Sharia is that the major goal of Islam is that all people will be under Sharia, which is a comprehensive system of totalitarianism.  From this perspective, Islam is an existential threat to all governments and all people on the earth.  All man made laws will be dissolved and replaced with Sharia, including the U.S. Constitution.

A former Muslim spoke in Plano recently and he said that Islam is not a religion but a comprehensive collectivist system.  I wrote about his presentation here:  Dr Yassir Eric on Islam (https://voteforcanright.blogspot.com/2025/12/dr-yassir-eric-on-islam.html)

In November I heard Pastor Elija Abraham, a former Muslim, say that Islam is not a religion. In his presentation, entitled "Rise of Islam as a Political Force," he defines Islam thusly:  "It is a socio-political system that uses deity to advance its agenda".

The Communists are still controlling counties and working inside America to bring us down, so Islam is not the only totalitarian system wanting to overthrow our system of government.  If we count the year 622 as the start of Islam, then Islam has been trying to conquer the world for 1400 years.  Look at the Explanatory Memorandum by the Muslim Brotherhood.  Military conquest did not work, so new approaches are being tried, but the goal of world domination is unchanged:  .

Should you be afraid?  No.  Our God has not given us a spirit of fear.  Our victory will be in Jesus.  I suggest strengthening your spiritual life.  I am reading "A Time to Stand" by James D. Heiser, a Lutheran Bishop (https://www.amazon.com/Time-Stand-Faithful-Presence-Ruins/dp/B0FGPJNJVF/).  Be aware and be informed.

The Smaller View

What about individual Muslims?  We are commanded to love our neighbors, so love them.  But if you are Jewish, then current circumstances show you should practice situational awareness and be careful.  Jewish people were massacred in Australia  on Sunday December 14 by two Muslim men. Here's a NY Times article on it:  Australian Police Investigating Sydney Shooting as Terrorism (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/14/world/sydney-bondi-beach-shooting?smid=nytcore-ios-share). At least 15 people were killed.

On December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, targeted a Christmas party of about 80 employees in San Bernardino. Fourteen people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured. Farook was a Muslim and an American-born citizen of Pakistani descent. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack).  Farook murdered his co-workers.

In Catastrophic Failure by Stephen Couglin, page 20, we read that Major Nidal Hasan gave a PowerPoint presentation to his military colleagues to explain why he was going to wage jihad and kill people.  That was a clear warning sign. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan)  Watch out for clear warning signs.

Even in everyday life we need to watch out for road-rage.  We need to be sensitive to the possibility of people of any ethnicity going into a rage in a store or social event.  As the moral fiber of our nation unravels, we have to watch out for any person near us going nuts. Charlie Kirk was murdered by a left wing extremist.  The Columbine shooters were teenagers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre).

We have problems and threats from many directions.  You should be an informed citizen.  You should be situationally aware. Do not be naive and think everyone is just like you. 

We need a spiritual revival in America.  We need to start with ourselves and strengthen our faith.  Our hope is in Jesus Christ.  Pray.

Thank you for your time.

Robert

Dr Yassir Eric on Islam

 Dear Friends,

I was invited by a friend to attend a meeting on 10/20/2025 at a Church in Plano.  The speaker was Dr. Yassir Eric, a bishop in the Anglican Church who was raised a Muslim and became a Christian.

 

His talk was amazing on very many levels.  I will give you some highlights in summary.  He was born in Sudan.  He was raised to hate both Christians and Jews.  In his school there was a Christian boy and the speaker and his friends beat the Christian boy so badly that they thought he was dead when they left him.  Dr. Yassir Eric eventually converted to Christianity and he adopted the name "Eric" in honor of the man who converted him.

Dr. Eric's grandfather was the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan.  His uncle was the chief of the secret police.  When his uncle went to murder a priest, the priest preached the gospel to the chief of the secret police, touched his heart and converted him to Christianity.  Yassir's grandfather had his uncle executed for becoming a Christian.  Later Yassir was converted.  He was imprisoned for two years.  When he was released, this family declared him dead and buried an empty coffin and put up a tombstone with his name on it.  He fled the country, going to Germany where he was educated in theology.  He is now the Right Reverend Dr Yassir Eric.

He explained Islam to us a bit, explaining that it is nothing like our idea of religion.

He explained that in the West, religion is only a part of our lives.  In Islam, their lives are only a part of the Islamic system.  Islam is a collectivist system.  There is no "I" in Islam, there is only "we."  Islam is all encompassing.

Islam is an economic system, a judicial system, a military system, Islam is everything.  Here in the West we really do not understand Islam.  Remember that his grandfather was head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan.  Dr. Yassir Eric knows what he is talking about.  Islam might be a threat, but Muslims are people we should love and pray for.

Dr. Yassir Eric talked about Muslims converting to Christianity.  I was very surprised to hear that our Lord Jesus Christ is appearing in dreams to Muslims and calling them to Him, and they are seeking Jesus and becoming converted.  The stories he told of conversions were amazing.  

Jesus Christ lives and he is personally seeking the lost in the middle east and drawing them to him.  Dr. Yassir Eric said that the fastest growing Christian Church in the world is in Iran.

He spoke for hours and was amazing.  I only provided a few highlights from his talk.  He emphasized how important it is that we cling to Jesus and preach the message of Jesus.

I was so amazed, I was so moved, that I cannot express the feelings I experienced nor convey properly how important it is that we really practice our faith in Jesus Christ.  A Christian church should not be just another social club.  Christianity contains the power of transformation and salvation, and too often people forget that.  Dr. Yassir Eric  not only opened my eyes to Islam, but fanned the flames of my faith.  It was a moving night and I am so grateful to Christ Church on Legacy for bringing Dr. Yassir Eric to Plano.

I hope you found my account of the presentation of some value to you.

Robert 

Comparing Venegoni and Kallas for JP4

 Dear Friends,

The incumbent judge in the Justice of the Peace Court, precinct 4, JP4 for short, is Vincent Venegoni.  He is being challenged for this position by the First Vice-Chair of the CC GOP, Stephen Kallas.  Let's do some comparisons.

Comparisons

Vincent Venegoni is a successful retired businessman.  He owned and ran a security consulting company with hundreds of employees and worked for significant customers.  In interviewing him, I discovered that we had both done work for the same government agency.  I have signed so many secrecy contracts that I don't want to mention the name of that agency, but I can say that world class work is done by that agency and I am impressed by the caliber of work that Vincent Venegoni has done in the private sector.  

Business is hard.  If you have ever tried to start a business, you know how hard it is to be successful.  I don't see evidence of this type of success in the history of Stephen Kallas.  One precinct chair who was doing her own vetting discovered this on the internet and shared it with me:

You can read the details at this website and make your own decisions:

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/dodge-city-of-mckinney/mckinney-texas-75070/dodge-city-of-mckinney-stephen-kallas-scott-spindle-gus-rodriguez-lie-cheat-shade-tree-720807#comment_1

You can say, "that is just a fluke."  There is a more detailed example of a major failure by Mr. Kallas in this article "Kallas's failure" (https://voteforcanright.blogspot.com/2025/10/kallass-failure.html). The gist of the article is this: he was given an important assignment and the assignment ended in failure.  All the work that went into the "Temporary Election Review Committee" (TERC) went down the drain.  How can Stephen Kallas manage the decisions of a Justice of the Peace Court if he could not manage the Temporary Election Review Committee (TERC) report?  A report for heaven's sake!

You need to understand that the Justice of the Peace does more than sit in judgement.  The Justice of the Peace (JP) manages the court, which has employees and a lot of processes and procedures to follow.  The JP is a manager as well as a judge.  Judge Vincent Venegoni has successfully managed his security consulting company.  We don't see evidence of this level of success in Mr. Kallas's career.

The Judge in Action

I spent a couple of days in the courtroom, observing how the court works.  You must understand that the JP is a judge and makes decisions that affect people's lives.  Here is Judge Venegoni in court.

What I saw in visiting the court was that there is a lot of paperwork associated with each case and Judge Venegoni had studied all the cases and was prepared. At the beginning of each day's work, the judge explained to all the defendants how the court worked, what were the key issues of the cases that they as a group were facing, and what their options were if they were unhappy with his decisions.  He was respectful and informative to the defendants, most of them representing themselves.

I was impressed at how complicated some of the cases became as they unfolded.  The court cases are people's lives and they sometimes become complicated.  Judge Venegoni dealt with the complexities by asking detailed questions of the defendants and the plaintiffs.  I was very impressed by his knowledge and by his humane behavior to the defendants.  Even if a defendant had a case that seemed "open-and-shut," Judge Venegoni listened carefully and asked questions.  The defendants were heard by the whole courtroom, they were listened to attentively by the Judge so that the defendants' side of the story was clearly understood.  The judge was respectful and sensitive to the defendants.

Vetting with Other Precinct Chairs

I told you how one precinct chair discovered the "Ripoff Report" on the internet when considering Mr. Kallas's candidacy for JP4 and shared it with me.  The precinct chairs share information with each other. Over coffee one day I heard a precinct chair describe Mr. Kallas as a bully and a thug.  I have to say that I was stunned when I heard this description.  

I searched my memory and I think it was the April 8, 2024 Executive Committee (EC) meeting when either Colleen Epstein or John Donovan made a motion to vote on the calendar so that the precinct chairs would know when the EC meetings would be held so they could arrange their business travel plans in order to attend.  Stephen Kallas took the microphone away from them and tried to end the meeting without a vote on the motion.  When John Donovan tried to use the microphone, there were many eyewitnesses who say that they saw Stephen Kallas push John and Colleen, and there were videos of the incident.   Maybe this incident was why the PC called Stephen Kallas a thug.  That's a harsh word that I would not have used, but I understand that viewpoint.

When have I seen bullying behavior by Mr. Kallas?  At a Rules Committee meeting I heard a member of the TERC ask the Rules Committee if they could force Mr. Kallas to follow the rules for issuing a majority report.  Mr. Kallas told that lady that she was off the committee because she disagreed with him.  The majority of the committee disagreed with Mr. Kallas, which is why there were two reports, the majority report and Mr. Kallas's report.

Is trying to throw a lady off the TERC because she disagreed with him an act of bullying?  How about if he yelled at her when he was trying to throw her off the committee?  Was ignoring the rules of committees and issuing his personal report as the official report an act of bullying?  Business becomes chaotic and unclear when you don't follow the rules.  Comparing Mr. Kallas's behavior towards the majority of the TERC I am reminded of these words from the Ripoff Report (grammar and spelling is unchanged):

"I brought my vehicle to have it services although I had a service plan Stephen argued with me for 30 minutes that I did Not.  After I called 2 other ligitimate [sic] Dodge Stores they pulled it right up in the Dodge System."

Are illegitimate arguments bad logic or bullying or just bad form?  Mr. Kallas seemed to use bad arguments at the car dealership and with the Temporary Election Review Committee.  That looks like a repeated pattern of either bad judgment or bad reasoning.  I shudder at the thought of Mr. Kallas sitting on the bench as a judge and making decisions affecting people's lives.

Judge Vincent Venegoni is a successful retired business man who is Justice of the Peace because he is civic minded and wants to serve the public.   We are lucky that he is willing to continue to serve.

Thank you for your patience,  

Robert

Vote on the Constitutional Amendments

 Time is running out on the vote for the proposed changes to the Texas Constitution.  Today is the last day to vote.  If you have not voted, copy the suggestions in this post and hurry to your voting place.

I have reviewed a couple of sources that I respect, put their recommendations into a spreadsheet, and added my own recommendations.  The amendments are called "propositions".

Because most of the votes are Yes,  I have highlighted the No's in yellow to make it easier to mark the ballot / sample ballot.

Here is where you can find your sample ballot for your precinct, you must know your precinct: https://www.collincountytx.gov/Elections/sample-ballots?electionID=67

On proposition 11 I differed from Texas Policy Research and Texas Eagle Forum because I think the older folks should get their tax relief.  

I was tempted to go against their recommendations on Proposition 3, about denying bail, even after reading what the experts said.  But then I read what JoAnn Fleming said and she  persuaded me to vote Yes on Proposition 3.  Here is what JoAnn said:

 

 

If you would like to read for yourselves the explanations for their recommendations, you can look here.  I have reviewed them and only differed on one point because I want that tax relief that they thought was unfair.

Texas Policy Research

https://www.texaspolicyresearch.com/texas-2025-constitutional-amendments-explained-ballot-guide-vote-recommendations/

 

Texas Eagle Forum

https://mcusercontent.com/0a6e189a54bb42a6b52b5729e/files/9f20686d-0717-fb1b-69b3-c9c7c5fd3f78/2025_NOV_PROPS.pdf

 

Hustle to your voting place.  If you can get inside by 7  pm then they will allow you to stay and vote.

Kallas's failure

Dear Friends,
This year the CC GOP sponsored a Leadership 101 class at the party headquarters.  It is almost as though the party realized that the previous party chair, Shelby Williams, was such a flop that we needed an explanation of leadership.  I can give you a good example of leadership in the CC GOP:  Lee Breckenridge-Moore, the HD89 caucus chair.  I need to explain her leadership to everyone because even precinct chairs who were in the meetings where she exhibited her leadership probably did not understand what they were seeing.  One problem in understanding is that the events showcasing her leadership dragged out over several months.  Another problem in understanding is a lack of knowledge of parliamentary procedure.

Let me give you an example of knowledge needed to understand an observation:  when watching a chess game, knowledge of chess is necessary to understand what is observed.  One needs to know opening, middle-game, and end-game theory as well as strategy and tactics.  Without knowledge, one can see without understanding.  Parliamentary procedure is a bit like that:  without knowledge you do not understand what is happening in front of you.

I will tell you an interesting story of a battle between right and wrong.  I will present to you the story of the conflicting reports from the Temporary Election Review Committee (TERC).  This committee was formed by CC GOP chairman Abraham George after the May 2023 local elections.  This committee was created in the May 8, 2023, Executive Committee (EC) meeting, but the reports were not presented until the October 9, 2023 EC meeting.  Yes, it took 5 months for the committee to complete its work and present its report.  There was a lot of conflict involved in presenting the report.  It is important to understand the conflicts and maneuvers in order to understand what was happening in the Collin County Republican Party (CC GOP).

Here is a fact that everyone needs to understand: per Robert's Rules, 51:2 “a report of a board or committee can contain only what has been agreed to by a majority vote” (page 479 in the latest edition).  But Stephen Kallas, the Chair of the Temporary Election Review Committee (TERC), wrote his own personal report and then tried to pass his personal report to the Executive Committee (EC) as though it was the committee report. Lee Breckenridge-Moore was a member of the committee and she believed that the rules should be followed and the report presented to the EC should be the report endorsed by the majority of the committee.  Lee tried so hard to get party leadership to enforce the rules, but party leadership played dumb. Then Lee reached out by email to the entire EC to put the problem out in the open.  Stephen Kallas, the committee chair, then issued his own email to the EC. Here is what he said in his email to the EC:  "I want to assure you that despite what you may have seen or heard, only one authorized report from that committee is the one I authored as the Chairman."  Because he wrote the report it is "authorized"?  What nonsense.  The committee chair Stephen Kallas should have known the rules well enough to have known that his report needed to be termed the "Minority Report" because the Majority Report is what was endorsed by the majority of the committee.

The dueling reports came to a head at a very special EC meeting.  In the October 9, 2023, EC meeting CC GOP Chairman Abraham George resigned to run for Candy Noble's seat in HD89.  All the candidates challenging the Collin County State Legislature incumbents were introduced and spoke.  Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke.  Big events broke out into the open that night, and that is when the report of the Temporary Election Review Committee was presented.  Both the majority report and the minority report, authored by Stephen Kallas, were presented, but it was not done properly. A minority report is supposed to be identified as the minority report and Stephen Kallas was avoiding that label.

Stephen Kallas presented after Lee and he finished by making a motion that his report be accepted by the EC.  At this point I, Robert Canright, stood and called "point of order."  Mr. Kallas objected saying that he had a motion on the floor. I said that a point of order is an interrupting motion.  The new Temporary Chairman of the party, John Myers heard me out.  John Myers consulted with the parliamentarian who said that accepting the report would put us in violation of our own Rules and Bylaws.

What was so different in the Kallas report?  Mr. Kallas proposed taking away from the EC the power to endorse Republicans in local elections and giving that power to donors and "kingmakers."  Here is exactly what he put into his report:

Recommendation 4:  Investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an endorsing convention.
Benefit:  Including the PACs and Clubs builds the team and allows for better fundraising opportunities.

Lee Breckenridge-Moore protected the power of the precinct chairs in the EC.  She battled for months to get the true report heard. By not "accepting" the Kallas report, the Candidate Committee was saved.  Lee showed leadership and Stephen left me puzzled on how a man so knowledgeable on Robert's Rules appeared to not know that a committee report must be approved by the majority of the committee.

Did the party under Chairman Shelby Williams try to leverage Lee's leadership skills?  No.  Chairman Williams forced a second election for HD89 Caucus Chair, seeming to want her gone from a leadership position.  The fallout for Mr. Kallas in botching the TERC report was that Mr. Kallas was promoted to chair of the Rules Committee.  Chairman Williams seemed to get everything backwards.  No wonder the party had a Leadership 101 class.

And the work of the TERC?  All the hours of testimony?  After the effort failed to let wealthy king makers choose the party endorsements, our leadership's interest in the committee report disappeared.  All that work was ignored.  It seems to me that Stephen Kallas led the TERC into failure because their work was ignored.

Thank you for your patience.  This is an episode in our party that is worth remembering and understanding. There are, of course, others in the party who also exhibit leadership.  Matt Thorsen in HD 67 for example led the successful effort to censure Representative Jeff Leach.

Some people tell me to forget about the past.  What is past is done, so forget about it.  But how can you make decisions today without knowing what  bad events in history might repeat?  For example, how can Stephen Kallas manage the decisions of a Justice of the Peace Court if he could not manage the Temporary Election Review Committee report?

Thank you for your patience.
Robert

Key Point:  The rules pertaining to committees and their reports provided us protection.  When Shelby Williams turned many committees into "teams," he stripped us of the protections we have in committees.  Turning committees into teams stripped us of rights and privileges, diminishing the EC.

footnote: on page 483 of Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised, 12th Edition, we have these pertinent paragraphs regarding committee reports.
51:13 Motion to Adopt an Entire Report
51:14 Equivalence of Terms, Incorrect Motions
51:16 “Another error – less common, but dangerous – is to move … that it ‘be accepted’ …”
Precinct chairs should have a copy of Robert's Rules and read pertinent parts, otherwise you can get swindled.

https://www.amazon.com/Roberts-Rules-Order-Newly-Revised/dp/1541736699/

Why listen to Canright?

 Friends,

I was thinking about how I voice opinions and you might wonder why you should listen to me.  I think that I should share some of my background with you.  You should have some foundation to assess my statements.  That is what I hope to accomplish with this communication.  I will be sharing examples from my life regarding (1) my skills in drilling past obstructions to discover truth.  (2) I will share examples of my speaking truth to power.  And I will be giving examples of (3) my competence and my ability to assess competence in other people.

Truth to Power

Here are a few examples from when I was a student in college.  To self-test my competence when I took a class in Digital Control Theory, I derived the formulas in a table of Z-Transforms.  I discovered an error in our textbook.  One of the transforms in the textbook was wrong.  I went to the library and found another textbook that supported my version of the Z-Transform.  For truth to power, I went to my professor and pointed out the error.  He agreed with me and instructed my classmates to correct their textbook.

When I was a college student I designed and built an analog computer that I used to prove to my professor that the requirements he gave us for a design project were impossible to achieve.  This truth to power was fine because he agreed with me.  I asked him why he gave us impossible requirements.  He said that the real lesson was that we might get impossible assignments at work.  Notice that I went to extraordinary lengths to discover the truth, designing and building an analog computer.

At work, when I was working on compact supercomputers I challenged every rule of thumb that was used without justification.  I drilled past a lot of "old wives tales."  In my research I discovered an equation that was missing in a famous book:  "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism" by James Clerk Maxwell, published in 1873. The author published one equation and I knew that those types of equations came in pairs.  So, as a mathematician and engineer,  I derived the missing equation.  Then I wondered why Maxwell printed just one of the two equations.  I decided that he printed the easy one and skipped the hard one, leaving it as an exercise to the reader.  Next I realized why he printed the equation at all: because it made some measurements possible that some contemporary scientists thought were impossible to measure.  I published these equations and explained how they could be used for measurements, see reference 1.

In this case telling the truth blew up on me.  Instead of getting a pat on the back for good work, I was punished because I embarrassed an important man.  This man had said that the measurements were impossible to make, but my equation made those measurements possible.  My paper contradicted a well known professor.  Yes, you can get hurt by telling the truth.

Here's another example.  I decided that I needed an accurate and simple equation to do some of my work.  There were expensive computer programs that my project could not afford, so I developed an equation that I could use for analysis and design, and I published the equation.  When I saw that another researcher had published an equation that did what my equation did, but his equation was inferior from a couple of perspectives, I wrote a letter to the editor in order to bring this oversight to the reader's attention.  The other paper was also flawed by not mentioning my prior work.  Researchers should know the current state of the art. This drew the attention of a couple of professors in Italy.  They studied both of our closed form equations by using a precise computer program and they agreed with my assessment.  In this case telling "truth to power" worked out.  Experts in Italy supported me, see reference 2.

I have given you four examples of my digging down, past faulty logic and past oversights, and revealing underlying truths, telling truth to power.  I learned that "telling truth to power" can have blowback.

Competence

As examples of my competence, besides my work in research and development (R&D), I was involved in the design of some very complex systems.  One system that I worked on was the weapons systems in the Apache helicopter.  The Apache AH-64 is still in operation after 40 years (Ref. 3).  The targeting and navigation systems are more complex than most people can imagine.

Another weapon system I worked on that is still operational is the Javelin Anti-tank missile.  It is still operational after 30 years and has been very successful in the Ukraine, destroying Russian tanks (Ref. 4).  Again, the design is more complicated than most people can imagine.

A third military system I worked on that is very complicated is the RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft.  Some of my systems in that aircraft are life-and-death systems, some are mission critical.  I was able to work until I chose to retire because I was competent.  You might have seen this aircraft in the news recently.  President Trump deployed this aircraft at our southern border to spy on the drug cartels (Ref.5).

Incompetence

At one place of employment I refused to accept two men onto my projects whom I thought would jeopardize the success of my projects.  Both of these men were eventually let go because they could not perform to our standards.  At another place of employment, as part of an interview team, I spoke against hiring a Ph.D. from Cal Tech.  I told our management that I had worked with enough Ph.D.s to recognize that the applicant's achievements did not measure up to the typical achievements of Ph.D.s in engineering.  My managers were so excited to hire someone from the California Institute of Technology, a premier school, that they ignored my advice, hired the man, and ended up dismissing this man for poor performance some months later.

Summary

Because I have had many decades of experience in drilling past obstructions to discover the truth, I have some confidence in my "baloney detector."  I realize that the truth is not always welcome and that there can be repercussions from revealing an unpleasant truth.  Because of my decades in engineering, designing and delivering challenging and important products, I can tell whether an organization is on track for success or failure.  I can also spot incompetent or sub-par performance.

If I reveal unpleasant truths to you, or I make judgments regarding competence, you have some sense of my experience in these matters.  I hope this can be a help to you in assessing some of my statements.

Thank you for your time.

Robert Canright

References

Ref. 1: Capacitance: Relationships and Measurements, Robert E. Canright, Jr., Proceedings of the 40th Electronic Components and Technology Conference, Vol. 1, 1990, pp. 163 – 168.

Ref 2: Comments on “An Analytic Algorithm for Unbalanced Stripline Impedance”, E. Costamagna and A. Fanni, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technique, Vol. 41, No. 1, January 1993, pp. 173 – 174

Ref. 3: The AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Still Reigns Supreme By Brent M. Eastwood, February 1, 2025
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/the-ah-64-apache-attack-helicopter-still-reigns-supreme/

Ref. 4:  FGM-148 Javelin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin

Ref. 5: US Steps Up Intelligence Flights for Border Mission with RC-135 and P-8 Spy Planes
Feb. 4, 2025 | By Chris Gordon, Air & Space Forces Magazine
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/us-intelligence-flights-border-mission-rc-135/

Credentials
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
B.S. in Mathematics
M.S. in Electrical Engineering
Licensed Professional Engineer in Electrical Engineering

Other Perspectives
My email describes me from the perspective of an engineer.  I read my first book in political science when I was in Middle School.  I started self-studying history and philosophy while in High School.  I still read a lot of books.  I ran for Plano ISD Board of Trustees in 2006.  I have been involved in local politics for the last 20 years.  I have many of experiences that I draw upon when making judgments, just like you do.