Getting Nowhere, Very Fast — on High-speed Rail
California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or...
Opinion
“Real Conservatives” and the Next Republican President
There are four Republican candidates left standing in the GOP’s presidential primary contest: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum. But...
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How to Cure Dyslexia
Some time ago I received a letter from England that was written by an intelligent, accomplished and motivated adult who had a “reading...
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“Venerable” Old Politics on the Newt Frontier
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has pledged to work for Puerto Rican statehood if the voters on the island commonwealth approve...
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The Grey: A Story of Survival and Faith
The Grey is a film about survival in the Arctic wilderness when four men are confronted by a pack of wolves. It is...
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“Gender-neutral” Childrearing: When a Sexual Hang-up Leads to Child Abuse
First there was “Pop” in Sweden, then “Storm” in Canada. Now out of Britain comes Sasha, a boy, we hear, who is being...
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Why “No Child Left Behind” Hasn’t Worked
For decades, I’ve been telling my readers that the federal government ought not to be in the education business and that constitutionalist members...
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Unauthorized Biography on Ron Paul, an Unauthorized Politician
Ron Paul: Father of the Tea Party, by Jason Rink, Variant Press, 2011, 255 pages, paperback. ...
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Liberal Greed: Barack Obama and the Real One Percent
Forget Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. If you want to find the real greedy one percent, you need look no further than Barack...
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Schools of Education
Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in...
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Rand Paul’s Stand Against the TSA
The TSA didn’t just “detain” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Monday: it showed us another of the agency’s many uses to Our Rulers. Not...
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A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire
The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia...
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Keynesian Economists Agree: China to Have “Hard Landing”
Mainstream economist Robert Samuelson admitted last week that the case for the ending of the economic boom in China has some substance. Keynesian...
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Reading and the Brain
In a recent article on whether one should be optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future, I quoted the former chairman of the National...
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A Brass Age?
This may be the golden age of presumptuous ignorance. The most recent demonstrations of that are the Occupy Wall Street mobs. It is...
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