How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama’s extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much touted “remaking America” means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt?
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How can we explain continued public support for Barack Obama’s extremist spending plans, even though it is painfully obvious that his much touted “remaking America” means mortgaging the financial future of young people with trillions of dollars in debt?
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Why did 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex unions? They voted 32% for Obama, twice the percentage of that demographic group who voted for John Kerry in 2004.
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Can you name the three branches of American government, legislative, executive, and judicial?
Continue reading →Why did 18-to-29-year-old evangelicals vote for Barack Obama despite his apostasy on the fundamental moral issues of abortion and same-sex unions?
Continue reading →December first was a special day for the elementary students at Newark, New Jersey’s public schools. All children are now required to wear uniforms.
Continue reading →Many voters didn’t think it important when it surfaced during the presidential campaign that Barack Obama’s friend, the 1960s radical William Ayers, is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Ayers’s preoccupation with inserting his ideas of “social justice” into public school curriculum didn’t seem an issue to make tracks in a national election.
Continue reading →Ayers is a friend of Obama, and Professor Ayers’s expertise is training teachers and developing public school curriculum. That’s been his mission since he gave up planting bombs in government buildings (including the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon) and assaulting police officers.
Continue reading →Democrats learned that attacks on guns and defense of abortion are no longer winning issues for them, and this new awakening is reflected in their 2008 Party Platform adopted in Denver.
Continue reading →The Olympics demonstrated again what competition, hard work and determination can produce, as numerous world records were shattered. American swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Nastia Liukin gave us much to cheer.
Continue reading →The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), attracted 9,000 delegates to its annual convention in Washington, DC over the Fourth of July weekend. Delegates sported buttons with provocative slogans such as “Gay marriage causes Global Warming only because we are so hot”, “Hate is not a family value,” “The ‘Christian Right’ is neither,” and “Gay Rights are civil rights.”
Continue reading →Rush Limbaugh’s 20-year domination of talk radio is a remarkable testament to the durability of conservative ideas as well as to Rush’s skill and courage in explaining controversial conservative principles in an entertaining style.
Continue reading →The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), attracted 9,000 delegates to its annual convention in Washington, DC over the Fourth of July weekend. Delegates sported buttons with provocative slogans such as “Gay marriage causes Global Warming only because we are so hot!”, “Hate is not a family value,” “The ‘Christian Right’ is neither,” and “Gay Rights are civil rights.”
Continue reading →The high-priced corporate lobbyists walking Capitol Hill corridors have a new mantra: innovation. They demand that Congress bring in more guest workers, especially from Asia, in order to maintain American innovation supremacy.
Continue reading →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 →When Hillary Clinton showed television viewers the Christmas presents she wants to give us if she is elected, her most important was Universal Pre-K, following closely after Universal Health Care.
Continue reading →U.S. News & World Report, which has made a name for itself by ranking and announcing the Best Colleges every year, is now ranking and listing the Best Careers for young people.
Continue reading →The media have already designated the frontrunners for the Republican nomination for President and are working overtime to force Republicans to line up behind one of them right now.
Continue reading →The media have designated the frontrunners for Republican and Democratic nominations for President and seem to expect American voters to line up behind one of them right now even though the national nominating conventions won’t take place until next summer.
Continue reading →The bad news is that Shakespeare has disappeared from required courses in English departments at more than three-fourths of the top 25 U.S. universities, but the good news is that only 1.6 percent of America’s 19 million undergraduates major in English (according to Department of Education figures).
Continue reading →Some critics have complained that the issue of education has been conspicuously absent from presidential television debates. But the Democratic candidates did sound off about their pro-federal-government, pro-spending policies when addressing the annual convention of the National Education Association, and the nation’s largest teachers union liked what they heard.
Continue reading →Every few years a new fad sweeps across the public schools. We’ve had self-esteem, new math, whole language, New Age, outcome-based education, school-to-work, mental health screening, school-based clinics, global education, diversity, multiculturalism, and early childhood education.
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