Keeping Our American Identity
01/09/2009
Can you name the three branches of American government, legislative, executive, and judicial?
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Can you name the three branches of American government, legislative, executive, and judicial?
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A survey of British teenagers recently reported that a fifth of under-twenties kids believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lionheart and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur were real people.
Continue reading →A survey of British under-age-twenty kids recently reported that more than a fifth of them believe Winston Churchill, Richard the Lionheart and Florence Nightingale were fictional characters, but that Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes and King Arthur were real people.
Continue reading →Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the Federal Government needs some accountability for the billions of dollars the taxpayers pour into university education. That’s right, we do; but her plan, to set up a national database to track students, plus a system of testing like No Child Left Behind, is not the solution.
Continue reading →Each year the Supreme Court grants fewer and fewer petitions for “cert,” or review. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just told Mike Wallace on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that “The Court receives over 8,000 applications for review each year.
Continue reading →The largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), held its annual convention this summer in Los Angeles displaying its usual favoritism toward the gays and the feminists, hostility to parents, and support of liberal causes.
Continue reading →The flap over the Department of Education consigning 300,000 copies of “Helping Your Child to Learn History” to the dumpster is evidence anew that the Federal Government should have no role in education. Illiteracy and low scores in public schools are a national scandal, but it’s hard to see how federal spending improves anything.
Continue reading →In rare moments when Congress isn’t preoccupied with the war, taxes or prescription drugs, Congress is worrying that American students don’t know any American history.
Continue reading →The liberals have been going all out to protect the privacy of individuals against government efforts to ferret out al Qaeda sleeper cells that might be plotting to kill us. But there is one thing I don’t understand: why aren’t they just as solicitous to preserve the Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens who attend public school?
Continue reading →“Gods and Generals” opened in movie theaters this past weekend, and at last we have a movie that presents truthful history rather than fiction or politically-correct revisionism.
Continue reading →If there ever were a time when the American people need heroes, that time is now. Fortunately, we don’t have to invent a hero. The man who should be honored as our greatest American is the Father of Our Country, George Washington.
Continue reading →President Clinton is pressing ahead with his plan to nationalize public school curriculum through national reading tests for 4th graders and national math tests for 8th graders. Congressional opposition to national tests has been led by Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) and Congressman Bill Goodling (R-PA), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee.
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