The President in Tucson
President Barack Obama went to Tucson on January 12th to take part in the memorial service held at the University of Arizona at Tucson to express the nation’s solidarity with the...
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The President in Tucson
[Edited by J] President Barack Obama went to Tucson on January 12 to take part in the memorial service held at the University of Arizona at Tucson to express...
Who Wrote Shakespeare? An Exercise in Critical Thinking
Educators and homeschoolers these days are teaching their students how to exercise their critical thinking skills. In other words, students must be able to look at a problem or controversy, take...
The Shooting Rampage in Arizona
It was obvious that no sooner did the media learn of the horrible shooting rampage on Saturday, January 9th, in Tucson, Arizona, that seriously wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six...
Is Compulsory School Attendance Compatible With a Free Society?
Is America still a free country? We like to think so, even with ObamaCare. Yes, we can get into a car and drive wherever we want. We can go to the...
Let the (Tea Party) Counter-Revolution Begin!
The first American Revolution officially began on July 4th, 1776, when the Thirteen Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. And it didn’t end until 1781, when General Cornwallis surrendered at...
Why the Palestinians Don’t Really Want a State
The most obvious indication that the Palestinians do not want a state is their constant demands for Israel to make far-reaching concessions which they know the Jewish state cannot make. The...
The Omnibus Bill: Typical Democrat Abuse of Power
It was typical of the Democrats to dump the mammoth Omnibus spending bill before the lame-duck Congress a week before Christmas. Lame-duck Congresses do not usually take up two-thousand-page bills that...
From Rhodes Scholars to Alinsky Disciples
In the past it seemed that the best way to become President was through several well-established routes: by climbing the power ladder in either of the two political parties, by having...
America Without Government Schools
As an advocate of full educational freedom, I am occasionally asked what America would be like if compulsory school attendance laws were done away with and the government got out of...
YouTube: The New Media of Record
YouTube, in just the few short years of its existence, has become the new Media of Record. In other words, if you want to see and hear a particular politician make...
Stupidity at the Top
My dictionary has several definitions for “stupid.” But the one I like best reads: “showing or resulting from a lack of normal intelligence; foolish; irrational; also used colloquially as a generalized...
The Banks and How They Come and Go
Back in the days when I was a youngster, my parents put their savings in a bank that went belly up during the Depression. As recent immigrants, they were not very...
The Difficult Choice: Comfort or Self-Reliance
Are the American people willing to give up the comforts of the Nanny State in exchange for self-reliant individualism? Before the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Americans did indeed rely...
The Meaning of Christmas 2010
This coming Christmas promises to be a little more joyous than the last, which reminded me of Christmases during the Great Depression. Although the holiday is as commercialized as ever, we...