When we list the areas that Barack Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” as he promised before his 2008 election, let’s not overlook his plans for education. They are as fundamentally transformational, costly and dictatorial as ObamaCare.
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August 2012 Political conversation on the media is full of chatter about how to cut spending and debt, but it reminds us of the comment
Continue reading →Political conversation on the media is full of chatter about how to cut spending and debt, but it reminds us of the comment attributed to Mark Twain: Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.
Continue reading →One of the ways to cut the big-spending binge engaged in by the federal government is to terminate the racket of college loans. It’s counterproductive, discriminatory, and a bad investment for both taxpayers and students.
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What is it about bureaucrats and school personnel that they want to pry into the personal life and habits of American citizens of every age? There seems to be no end to the imperial demands by government and schools to require both grownups and kids to reveal personal information.
Continue reading →The charter school movement was presented to the American people as a way to have more parental control of public school education. Charter schools are public schools financed by local taxpayers plus federal grants.
Continue reading →Political Correctness has a double standard when it comes to teaching about religion in public schools. Drop Christianity down the Memory Hole, but give extensive and mostly favorable coverage to Islam.
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How long are we going to put up with the fiction that free trade with China is beneficial to the United States?
Continue reading →When President Obama was participating in a live video chat, Jennifer Wedel asked him, “Why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?” Her husband is a semiconductor engineer laid off three years ago and still unable to find an engineering job.
Continue reading →Moving quietly under cover of presidential debates and the enormous publicity given to the race for the Republican nomination is a plan to change how U.S. Presidents are elected. It would bypass the procedure spelled out in the U.S. Constitution which has been used successfully for over two centuries.
Continue reading →Most Americans are unaware that about $700 Billion a year of federal taxpayers’ money is handed out to non-taxpayers allegedly below a poverty line.
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College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules.
Continue reading →We should reduce federal spending back to the level of the day Obama took office; most people don’t realize how much he increased spending in his first two years.
Continue reading →Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past ten years on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job and the kids were improving.
Continue reading →A national scandal hit the news when Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a 413-page report describing how hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals had been cheating during the past ten years on standardized tests in order to falsely report that their schools were doing a good job and the kids were improving.
Continue reading →E-Verify, a computer process that makes it fast and easy for employers to check the validity of employees’ Social Security numbers to ascertain if they are legal, was created by Congress as a voluntary system.
Continue reading →Elementary school curriculum isn’t just about the three R’s any more. Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic now have to make time for lessons in gender diversity and for nosy questionnaires that lead kids into teen sex and illegal drug usage.
Continue reading →The Obama Administration is now trying to get around FERPA by the subterfuge of having the states build the databases and assign each child a different ID number.
Continue reading →If you are attending college to get teacher certification, you will probably be required to attend classes on “multicultural education.” This is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom and prepare teachers to teach pupils of various ethnic or national backgrounds.
Continue reading →More taxpayer spending to send more students to college will not reduce unemployment or improve the economy.
Continue reading →Contrary to Obama’s political rhetoric, more taxpayer spending to send more students to college will not reduce unemployment or improve the economy.
Continue reading →Federal spending on public schools (which is only a small percentage of their school budgets) was given specific goals in the 2002 law called “No Child Left Behind,” the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Continue reading →U.S. Senator Jim DeMint begins his book on Saving Freedom with the story of the Gingerbread Man, who evaded capture until he came to the river and accepted the offer of a fox to take him across.
Continue reading →Since Obama became President he has increased student aid by nearly 50 percent to $145 billion a year, including an additional $10 billion in Pell grants.
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