Virtual Classrooms: an Exit Strategy from Toxic Public School Culture?
Homeschooling and the computer: a match made in heaven? In many ways, yes. Homeschoolers can access lessons from online sites to successfully complete...
Opinion
Ending Income Inequality?
Benefiting from a hint from an article titled "Is Harry Potter Making You Poorer?", written by my colleague Dr. John Goodman, president of...
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Lessons of History?
It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these...
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All GOP Candidates but Paul Talk Balanced Budget but Won’t Cut Military
Republicans are amazing. It's possible they could lose the 2012 presidential election before 2011 is over. Really, they ought to rename that big...
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U.S. Senate Votes for Indefinite, Unconstitutional Detention
Well, now they have done it. On Tuesday a bipartisan total of 61 Senators voted for and only 37 voted against provisions in...
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Cornell Professor Wants to End Black Friday Madness by Taxing It
On the lookout for perceived injustices in the marketplace, Cornell University professor Robert Frank decided that Black Friday needed his attention and wrote...
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The Great American Debt
The American national debt hangs over the nation’s head like the sword of Damocles, ready to drop and severely damage the American economy....
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Gingrich and Immigration
Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican frontrunners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks...
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The Not So Super Supercommittee
Even if Congress' supercommittee had agreed on how to cut the national debt by $1.2 trillion over the next decade, it would still...
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Newt Gets “Union Leader” Endorsement; Santorum Strikes Out in New Hampshire
The folks who call Ron Paul dangerous — like Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and the Union Leader — can't be counted on to...
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The Socialist Agenda Behind “Whole Language”
We have known for quite some time that there is a socialist political agenda behind the movement to do away with systematic phonics...
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OWS Black Friday Protest Flops; Group Costs Taxpayers at Least $13 Million So Far
The ballyhooed Black Friday protest suggested by the leaders at Occupy Wall Street failed, but OWS has succeeded on two counts. ...
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“Green” Jobs and Real Jobs
The Wall Street Journal virtually called the Obama administration’s efforts to create “green” jobs a joke, decrying the President’s efforts to jump-start the...
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An Effective Campaign to Eradicate Poverty
There are many efforts underway to focus attention on world poverty. In a world of massive government spending that is supposed to be...
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Latest Economic Surveys Show Little Optimism
The Republican Small Business Committee reported on November 8 that small-business optimism “remains extremely low,” and that business owners “simply are not hiring...
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