Is Our Children Learning?
Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by how much each spent per pupil in public schools in 2005, New York ranked first; D.C. third. The state spent ...
Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. In a ranking of 50 states and D.C. by how much each spent per pupil in public schools in 2005, New York ranked first; D.C. third. The state spent ...
Scott McConnell has now responded to the many criticisms of his decision to run John Lukacs's outrageous review of The Unnecessary War. It is interesting that he does not even mention that Pat Buchanan helped found the ...
I’m not a ballet fan, although I admire like hell the pain these poor guys and gals have to go though to reach the top. Pop stars have it easy. All they have to do is write some very bad lyrics or make some horrible noise ...
"He is plainly some crazed moral retard". That stuck it to him. Or not. Yet on the night of 9/11, as I sat in a BBC Radio studio helping to dissect the bleak events of that day, it was the only response I could ...
When Kim Jong-Il finally test launched a missile this week, I knew it was only a matter of time before some neocon would cry out for the resurrection of the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war. Sure enough, reported The Raw ...
if Muslims really did make innovations in aerodynamics, astronomy, and other fields long before Europeans did, what happened then? Why were the Europeans the ones who made use of these discoveries for technological ...
We have had an outbreak of golden orioles at my house in France. There are, of course, far worse outbreaks to have, but it is a little frustrating that these beautiful birds (the male especially, the female is less ...
My all-time favorite example of electoral interference came in 1997, when Zimbabwe’s former president the Reverend Canaan Banana was scurrilously accused of several acts of homosexual abuse, leading to the truly ...
Here is something no one in the media is reporting as Vice President Kamala Harris continues to duck and weave like Muhammad Ali in the ring to avoid any questions about her economic plan. The American Business Defense ...
Flies are like sheep: They seem to follow their leader, without it being clear which of them is their leader. This was my conclusion from watching flies approaching the flypaper I hung in my bedroom recently. Our house in ...
Why has Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) declared war on credit cards? Americans are in love with paying with plastic. Perhaps too much so -- given that credit card debt now exceeds $1 trillion. But paying with plastic has ...
In my local role here in Charleston, South Carolina, as a personality for 1250 AM WTMA talk radio and a columnist for the Charleston City Paper, my listeners and readers tend to fall into one of three camps: Dedicated, ...
My paleo friends must have laughed themselves silly at the sight of Mark Levin and David Frum going at each other like Tybalt and Benvolio in the streets of Verona. Ah, but what of Rod Dreher, who now sides with Frum ...
Word reached these shores last week that Professor Noam Chomsky—the celebrated public intellectual, activist, linguist, philosopher and all-round “left-wing” critic of U.S. foreign policy—had been ...
Children can sometimes be very cruel—but also very inventive. When I was a schoolboy myself during the 1990s, there was a performatively “suicidal” girl who constantly used to make millimeter-deep scratches in her ...
The Two Minutes of Hate began in Ballston before the movie even began, when the previews of Oliver Stone's W. hit the screen. My brief speculation as to the political leanings of the crowd dissipated, as the ...
Obama has taken a beating from gleeful conservatives over his comments about bitter working class Pennsylvanians clinging to God and guns. Today David Brooks says people resent the comments because it shows Obama does ...
When Tim Russert asked Mitt Romney about the Mormon Church's politically incorrect record on race, a teary eyed Romney urged that we should look at the actions of his father, former governor George Romney, rather than that ...
10 Picks for the Week A Patch on My Evil Eye, May 6 - May 26, The Arab-British Centre, London A showcase of paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture by young artists from the Middle East and Britain. A Patch on My ...
The Week’s Most Narrowing, Harrowing, and Cupid-Arrowing Headlines HURTY GURDY It was the worst week for Sweden since that time the Muppet chef made ribbestek and nobody ever saw Miss Piggy again. First, there was ...
Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union. Arkansas and Alabama were defying ...
The key thought that underlies Obama's recovery plan is simple. The cure for severe recession lies in trying to "grow the economy." Spending and investment have fallen off; the government, accordingly, must take up ...
It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now available and affordable to almost all ...
Lindsay Lohan is taking public embarrassment to absurdly new heights. At a party celebrating young Hollywood, she was lambasted by Perez Hilton, but barely seemed coherent enough to realize the insult. She then got ...
