Life without FEMA?
If you wonder what life would be like without a particular government agency, it is not enough simply to subtract the agency from...
Opinion
Republicans at Their Best and Their Worst
Thanks to the liberal Independents Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Democrats have controlled the U.S. Senate since the...
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When 16-year-olds Can Vote
A desire to extend suffrage to younger adolescents is nothing new. A few nations have already made the move, and approximately half of...
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The Education Reform Racket
Education reform in this country has essentially been a giant racket, deceiving the American people into thinking they are getting better education for...
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Enough Spent on Welfare in 2011 to Give Every Poor Household Nearly $60,000
According to an October 16 memorandum prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government spent $746...
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Campaign Claims: Who’s Telling the Truth? Is Anyone?
“Well, the liar won!” That’s what half the country will be saying the night of the election or the morning after, no matter...
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Some Thoughts on Frankenstorm
I note the ways in which Hurricane Sandy dovetails perfectly with our political situation. ...
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Wrestling with Vampires
My American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines "vampire" as: 1. A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave...
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“Cooling Out” the Voters
The belated release of State Department e-mails shows that the Obama administration knew, while the attack on the American consulate was still underway,...
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Bad Lunches Cooked Up by the Central Planners
The big news out of Sweden is that lunch lady Annika Eriksson has been shut down. Eriksson was an exceptionally creative and hardworking...
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If 51 Percent of the Congress Were Women…
Why accept contraception as a women’s issue? After all, there’s male contraception, too, and any insurance plan that didn’t cover birth control for...
Read moreWho’s Behind the Common Core Curriculum?
Like so many education reform initiatives that seem to arise out of nowhere, the Common Core State Standards is another of these sweeping...
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Obama the Classless
Barack Obama recently called Mitt Romney a bull******* in an interview. This, of course, tells us more about Obama than it does about...
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Americans Should Reject Obama-Romney Foreign Policy
It’s been noted, mostly by humorists, that Romney continuously expressed his agreement with Obama across a range of issues: drone warfare, Iran, Afghanistan,...
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America’s Best Kept Educational Secrets
One of the best-kept secrets in American education is that the 26 letters of the English alphabet stand for only 44 sounds. Learning...
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