Who Poses the Greater Threat?
Bill Gates is the world's richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? Can he force your kid to go to a school you do not want...
About: Denise Behreandt
Posts by Denise Behreandt
Global Warming Update
Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered...
The Census and the Constitution
The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it the costliest census in the nation's history. Suppose...
Haiti’s Avoidable Death Toll
Some expect Haiti's 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter...
English Instruction: Where? When? Who Says?
I recently came across some notes that I had taken during English class my senior year at Ypsilanti High School. People often ask how I became so so knowledgeable; so capable;...
Is Judge Sotomayor a Secret Right-winger?
Is Judge Sonia Sotomayor really a secret right-winger? Wait! Before you decide I’m a stark-raving lunatic, hear me out. ...
They Stole That Election Fair and Square
One of the dirtiest campaigns ever conducted for the U.S. Senate is finally over. And to the dismay of anyone who cares about decency and decorum in “the world’s most exclusive...
Obama Promotes Division
One of the police supervisors in the Cambridge Police/Crosby/Gates press conference suggested that Obama, himself, may be unwilling to accept our post-racial America. That speaker hit upon something extremely important and...
Council On Foreign Relations
During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama consistently promised Americans “change.” Such promises aren’t new to the voting public. ...
Driving Us to Destruction
Item: Writing in the online Newsweek for June 2, Daniel Gross observed: “It’s been a long time since American devotees of Marx … have had much to cheer about. But with...
Oklahoma’s Proclamation for Morality Petition
On Thursday, July 2, State Representative Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City) and over one hundred political, religious and business leaders gathered at the Oklahoma state capitol to present the “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality Petition”...
The Bielski Forest
When Germany invaded Poland in WWII, the Polish Jews that the Germans did not immediately kill were jammed in ghettos, there to await their execution by the Nazi SS. Though the...
The Standards of Our Standard
On our first day in school, most of us stood beside our desk, put our little hand over our heart, and repeated (with varying degrees of accuracy) the words we know...
What? Even Charter Schools Got “F’s”?
After decades of hand-wringing over nonexistent or, at best, mediocre gains in student academic achievement, the most noticeable thing to come out of all the "studies" aimed at improving schools is...
English as the Official Language Has Broad Appeal
There are 322 languages spoken in the United States, but the people have selected one lingua to rule over them all. ...