What wrecked American education in the 20th century? We hear so many excuses, so much outright lying, it’s hard to stay focused on the essential history. In so far as you can blame one person for a large historical shift, John Dewey is the guy who mugged public education and left it bleeding in a […]
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Parents’ Rights Violation: Students Forced to Answer Intimate, Sexually Suggestive Surveys Without Parental Knowledge or Written Consent FITCHBURG, Mass.— The Rutherford Institute is demanding that a Massachusetts school district cease its practice of requiring students to complete surveys asking overtly intimate and sexually suggestive questions without their parents’ knowledge or written consent. In a letter […]
Congressional Report Details AARP’s Financial Gain From Health Care Law, Questions Tax-Exempt Status Washington, D.C. – Today, three Members of Congress released, “Behind the Veil: The AARP America Doesn’t Know,”a new report exposing the conflict between AARP’s drive for profits, the best interests of its members and the organization’s tax exempt status. The report, which […]
Okay, folks, place your bets. Was it clueless incompetence on a cosmic scale? Or, was it John Dewey’s collectivist wet dream turned Clockwork Orange? One of these ways or the other, we became a country with 50,000,000 functional illiterates, people who can’t read a cereal box, never mind instructions on a pill bottle when that […]
The negative consequences of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act already are cascading through the health sector, with millions of Americans in states across the country learning that their health insurers have withdrawn from the market, making it increasingly difficult for them to find affordable coverage. And this is happening despite President Obama’s repeated […]
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The Miseducation of America
The last two years have been another reminder that education is not equivalent to competence, intelligence or experience, let alone wisdom, as an administration of people who have hardly held actual jobs outside of academia have proven that they are very good at assigning blame and conducting internal rivalries, and absolutely terrible at everything else. […]
In the heat of the Ground Zero mosque debate, New York public high schools are pushing a test that slams the history of Christianity while exalting the spread of Islam. Some NY teachers were so upset when reading the Regents exam on Global History and Geography that they have complained to the press and even […]
Interesting reading. Be informed before you vote. This is astounding. Many have no clue about the changes coming our way in 2011 and beyond. The new tax impact on the average taxpayer as outlined below is hard to imagine. Not to mention the shock wave that will ripple through every part of the economoy.
Now that the healthcare bill has passed and been signed into law, one must inquire: How will the federal government keep track of the millions of persons in America now (supposedly) required to operate according to the federal government’s healthcare program? Now that the federal government is responsible to ensure that millions of people’s health […]
An Analysis of the Senate Democrats’ Health Care Bill by the Staff of the Center for Health Policy and the Staff of the Center for Data Analysis Heritage Foundation Backgrounder #2353 Abstract: The Senate health care bill would overhaul the entire health care sector of the U.S. economy by erecting massive federal controls over private […]
April 25, 2009 prophezine.com The Swine flu virus that has had an outbreak in Mexico has crossed the boarder. Cases have been reported in California and in Texas. “It has pandemic potential,” Margaret Chan, the director-general of the World Health Organization, told reporters during a telephone briefing. “It is infecting people.”
January 19, 2009 CFIF.org As Taxpayers Struggle, Congress and Obama Extend Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants, and Raise Taxes on Lower-Income Americans While an increasing number of Americans face layoffs, benefit cuts and difficulty paying their bills, the last thing that President-Elect Obama and Congress should be doing is devising ways to make taxpayers’ lives even […]