Moral Bankruptcy in our Schools
To squander the time of poor kids, for whom education is often their only hope of escaping poverty, is truly an irresponsible self-indulgence by adults who should know better, and it...
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Will Dunbar Rise Again?
Dunbar High School in Washington is becoming a controversial issue again — and the controversy that is beginning to develop has implications for American education well beyond the District of Columbia....
Politics Versus Education
Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers' unions. ...
Income Inequality Widened by Liberal Policies
Income inequality is seldom discussed in terms of the actual consequences of liberal policies. When you turn from eloquent rhetoric to hard facts, the hardest of those facts is that income...
The High Cost of Liberalism
Trying to live in the kind of world that liberals envision has costs that will not go away just because these costs are often ignored by liberals. ...
The Fraudulent “War on Women” Political Slogan
The "war on women" political slogan is in fact a war against common sense. It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77...
A Halo for Selfishness
The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens whenever the High Court...
Republicans and Blacks
Too many Republicans seem to think that the way to "reach out" is to offer blacks and other minorities what the Democrats are offering them. ...
“The Triple Package”: A Tiger of a Book
The Triple Package tells us much that we all need to know about America — especially if we want to keep the welfare state ideology from destroying the American Dream. ...
The Left Versus Minorities
If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and the place...
Freedom Is Not Free
There may be something to the claim that all people want to be free. But it is a demonstrable fact that freedom has been under attack, usually successfully, for thousands of...
The “Fairness” Fraud
If equal probabilities of achieving some goal is your definition of fairness, then we should all get together and stipulate that life has never been fair, anywhere or any time in...
Republicans to the Rescue?
The latest bright idea among Republicans inside the Beltway is a new version of amnesty that is virtually certain to lose votes among the Republican base and is unlikely to gain...
The Inequality Bogeyman
Despite the preoccupation — if not obsession — of intellectuals with equality, we are all very unequal in what we do well and what we do badly. ...
Fact-free Liberals: Part 4
One of the things that attracted me to the political left, as a young man, was a belief that leftists were for "the people." Fortunately, I was also very interested in...