I do not like Thee, Governor Romney

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. The reasons why I cannot tell. But this I know and know full well: I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. B.S.  I can say and have said why. But I will support you as the Republican candidate.

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Enlightened Self-interest and International Relations

In theory, it may beat commonly praised alternatives. But to what extent can we rely on it in practice?

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Academic Lynching: Botched Hiring Reveals Faculty Bias

Academic freedom is given lipservice at Hamline University in Minnesota where a GOP gubernatorial candidate for the faculty is blackballed because of his political views. Why are we not surprised by such blatant bias on campus? [...]

Sending the Education System Back to School

In Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy, Andrew Rosen, CEO of test preparation material giant Kaplan, Inc., argues that institutions like Rosen’s Kaplan University, DeVry Institute of Technology and the University of Phoenix are educating Americans that the mainstream post-secondary system has long ignored as “not college material.”

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America’s Indestructible Thanksgiving Tradition: A Timeless Memorial for all People

U.S. citizens, patriots, and non-biased historians who cherish their country's national heritage are not likely to stand by and watch the first symbolic thanksgiving get muddled by revisionists and fault finders.

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Political Protest 101: Indoctrinating Fourth Graders in Wisconsin

"Hi hi!  Ho ho!  What did you learn in school?"  The three "Rs" of course, reading, writing and arithmetic.   Plus another if you're a nine-year old in  Portage, Wisconsin:  How to protest at the Capitol in Madison.   Will the left stop at nothing, nothing at all, to indoctrinate our young ones?   Read and weep:       [...]

Duly Noted – Kindergarten Sex

When romantic fiction exploits politics to reshape real life. [...]

Economics and the “Occupy Wall St.” Manifesto

Examination of the list of demands purportedly issued by the “protestors” leaves us wondering whether or not they understand how an economy works. [...]

Union Thuggery in Wisconsin: Death Threats, Anyone?

'Credible, specific death threats' are ignored by mainstream media.  Republicans take cover.  Weird things are happening in the Badger State.  Something's rotten there, and it's not the cheese. 

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Shh, Don’t Tell Anyone. Obama Is Increasing The Cost Of Going To School.

What?  President Obama raising costs on families?  That cannot be right can it?  I mean, he is all for the "little people" isn't he?

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The Search for Stimulation

Modern educators praise the advent of musical and film exposure for infants, thereby acknowledging their need for mental stimulation, but the average family in this culture is blithely unaware of it, except to get its unoccupied children off its neck. What does the near-ubiquity of this modern disability tell us of the state of boredom  [...]

Archbishop Timothy Dolan blasphemes married men

The head of the U.S. Catholic Church blamed married men for child sexual abuse on 60 Minutes.  Pro-marriage groups expect a retraction and correction.

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Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools

K-12 schools in Tucson are defiantly teaching Mexican-American studies despite a law that was passed this year banning the classes. The classes are not just about teaching Latino youth their history, the materials blatantly teach the students that the U.S. oppresses them and must be overthrown.

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Michigan Professor Advocates for Tehran Regime

Why is Professor Juan Cole such an apologist for the Iranian government?

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Un-College Funds

Working as a cog in some vast organization is the grim fate of most young Americans. Why not offer an Un-College Fund instead of the typical college scholarships through which young men and women could open a small business in some field that interests them?  Even more than that, an Un-College Fund would protect our [...]

The Plague in American Education

The solution for American education is not a longer school year for children in a failing system or more federal government control over education as President Obama promotes in his strategic plan for American education.

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What Was So Special About the Glenn Beck Program (and What Should FOX NEWS Learn From It)?

Though I have been a huge fan of Rush for years, and I like Hannity and O'Reilly, it was Beck that came in and took a hard look at the history behind the Democratic/Liberal ideology.

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A Day to Weep For Joy

The Woman's Right to Know Act has become law in North Carolina. It requires clinics to inform women that there are more choices than just abortion. In states where this law has been passed, the abortion rate has dropped. 

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The Bad Education News is Even Worse

American education in even worse shape than the public realizes. A report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation discloses that at almost 80% of the Atlanta elementary and middle schools investigated, students were helped to cheat on the annual state performance tests.

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Whither Goes California

California has just become the first state in the nation to require public schools to add lessons about "gay" history to social studies classes.  

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Your Choice: Marriage or Bankrupt Big Government?

Marriage-absence is the most pressing economic structural problem of our time, In less-affluent groups, it drives bloated government, endless social spending, budgets that cannot be balanced by consensus, and calls for more taxes.  The Center for Marriage Policy has the policy answers. [...]

Atlanta School System Scandal: Liberalism On Parade

That those students would pass through a critically flawed system, never gaining the proper level of academic training from it, and be thereafter consigned to face life at an intellectually diminished status was of little concern to Atlanta School Superintendent Beverly Hall and her cabal. [...]

Education Reformation – Returning Excellence to Teaching our Children

United States education performance has been degrading over the last 50 years, and no single change will reverse the damage done. Throwing money at the education system has not fixed the problems. A complete philosophy change is needed to return to student-centered education.

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The Secret Knowledge

 David Mamet's foray into political philosophy is a triumph, or is that too modest a word?

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Food Fascism Lays Groundwork For Additional Control

Once today's young skulls full of mush, as Rush Limbaugh calls them, become acclimated to such detailed micromanaging of their existence at such a young age, expect that kind of command mentality to manifest itself in an array of other issues.

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