Recently, President Barack Obama was mocked for saying: “The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed than it’s ever been. It is more educated than it’s ever been.” Although these comments received criticism, he was absolutely right.
Free market benefits aren’t only measured in dollars and cents.
But America’s upcoming birthday on the Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this country America.
Perhaps we should be grateful that Obama has not done more damage to the nation than he already has.
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there.
Americans fall easy prey to charlatans of all stripes because of the education establishment’s success in dumbing down the nation.
Capital accumulation and more production, not egalitarianism and its absurd theories and programs, are the foundation of rising living standards in general and rising real wages in particular.
It may be that it’s I who is getting old and out of touch, having been educated during ancient times when nonsense was less acceptable.
Some people act as if the answer to every problem is to put more money and power in the hands of politicians.
The average parent has no idea of the devious indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. What follows are some of the lessons of the conference.
Ayn Rand convincingly demonstrated that our survival and thriving depends on identifying and consistently applying valid principles, no matter how “extreme” they may be considered by those clinging to the majority consensus.
Be very suspicious if government says it’s bringing the perfect gift to the wedding.
Why are college campus rapists not reported to the police and prosecuted in a court of law?
Too many of today’s “educators” see students as a captive audience for them to manipulate and propagandize.
After being abused by Moslems in Somalia, Ayaan Hirsi Ali moved to the Netherlands. She became an outspoken critic of Islam and wrote a screenplay for Submission, a 2004 movie that specifically critiques Moslem treatment of women.
Fulford’s characterization of capitalism is inaccurate and non-essential and therefore worth analyzing here.
According to conventional morality, pride is a sin. According to Aristotle, it is the crown of all virtues.
Objective observers see a bureaucratic, inefficient, and hopelessly out of touch ivory tower that is bleeding the country of its savings, and more tragically, its intellectual acuity.
What is different about the history of Dunbar is that, from its founding in 1870 as the first public high school in the country for black students, until the mid 1950s, it was an outstanding academic success.
Teachers’ unions and others who defend the public school establishment decry competing schools, on grounds that they are somehow undermining the public schools.
Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers’ unions.
Where are the feminists outraged by the Brandeis decision?
How did Adolf Hitler and the Nazis gain the power that they needed to commit such horror?
Captain America: The Winter Soldier, beautifully portrayed on every level by Chris Evans, depicts what ought to be America’s shining response to evil.
Charter schools take power from politicians and bureaucrats, letting parents decide where their children will go to school. That is obviously offensive to those on the left, who think that our betters should be making our decisions for us.
There is little that the political and education establishment will do about the grossly fraudulent education received by many black youngsters, and more money is not the answer.
The foundation of BB&T’s success is its principles.
The danger is that the outrage undermines perspective. It creates a false impression of how risky the present is, and it fuels unnecessary, freedom-killing regulations.
Ayn Rand called envy “the hatred of the good for being the good.” Instead of hating and envying the good, let’s love and thank the good for being the good.
Common Core, like public school, public housing, the U.S. Postal Service, the Transportation Security Administration, etc., are all one-size-fits-all government monopolies. For consumers, this is not a good thing.
As someone who used to read translations of official Communist newspapers in the days of the Soviet Union, I know that those papers’ attempts to degrade the United States did not sink quite as low as Howard Zinn’s book.
While there’s widespread teacher test cheating to conceal education failure, most notably among black children, it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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