The public education monopoly can’t stand the thought of “unqualified” parents teaching their own children. That is why they are cracking down on home schooling, even as a new study shows that thousands of public school teachers themselves are shamefully unqualified to educate the nation’s students. In California, the state’s hostile education department is tightening [...]
Archive | October, 2002
Allowing Israel to Destroy the PLO Helps Defend the U.S.
Andrew Bernstein (2002.10.01 ) Politics
It is time that the United States recognize the true nature of Yasser Arafat and his regime. The PLO has been engaged in a terror campaign against Israel for decades, and today supports fanatical suicide bombers, who deliberately target and murder innocent civilians. The murder of the Israeli minister of tourism, Rehavam Zeevi, was made [...]
Q & A on Going to war with Iraq
Michael J Hurd (2002.10.01 ) Politics
A reader from a major news network writes in: Reader: Going to war with Iraq is so stupid for so many reasons that I can’t take the time to address them all. Needless to say, there is NO evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Hurd: So it doesn’t count that weapons inspectors have found [...]
Latest Version of Old Ploy
Thomas Sowell (2002.10.01 ) Politics
California’s Governor Gray Davis has gotten himself some front-page headlines, not only in California but across the country, by signing into law the first mandated provision for paid leave from work (at half pay) for people who say that they have family problems to deal with. In one sense, this is something new but, in [...]
The Purpose of a World Trade Center Memorial
Dianne Durante (2002.10.01 ) Politics
Memorials proposed for the World Trade Center site include slabs of stone whose lines would correspond to the shadows cast by the Towers when they were attacked; a well 911 feet deep with two towers hovering above it; and a grass-covered mound 650 feet across. For those of us who loved the sight of the [...]