Say you're accused of a sexual offense and you're forbidden to confront your accuser, have an attorney present or cross-examine witnesses. Where are you? A) IraqB) IranC) CubaD) Columbia University If your final answer was "D," you're right, but don't expect $1...
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What Non-Profit Colleges Hate More Than Academic Censorship: For-Profit Colleges
YOU MAY NEVER HAVE HEARD of the University of Phoenix, but it has more students than Harvard, Yale or Notre Dame ---- combined. There is a reason you probably have not heard of the University of Phoenix. It represents a new development in higher education and one that...
Santa Claus: The Anti-Christ
Santa Claus is also a symbol of good will, and thus is the appropriate holiday symbol of America, a country that, because of its material prosperity, can inspire good will in all of its citizens.”
Spontaneity versus Whim Worship
What's the fundamental difference between being a whim worshiper and being spontaneous? A whim worshipper acts on whatever urges move him, at the moment they first move him. He does not stop and use reason to evaluate what he's doing. A spontaneous person is capable...
The U.S. Child and Family Services Gestapo Targets Parents
This Christmas season, take a moment to say a prayer for the many innocent people sent to prison by injustice. You can safely say, "There, but for the grace of God, go I," because the myriad causes of well-intentioned people have made it possible for anyone, no matter...
UNICEF Kills the Little Children…
"Breast is best." No, it's not the new slogan for Hooters restaurant. It's the mantra of breast-feeding advocates who promote their cause with a cult-like fervor around the world. Their extremism must be condemned. I have nothing against breast-feeding. After weighing...
How to Find Your Hero or Heroine
With persistence, people almost always find the romantic partner they want. This is one of the surprising things I've learned from years of being a therapist. I spend countless hours talking with lonely people who wonder if they will ever find the romantic partner...
The Magic Solution for Feeling Low
Try to do some activities that you have reason to believe will help you feel better…right now!
Dr Laura: Moralistic Busybody
Dogmatic commandments are not enough.
Children of the Damned: How We Are ‘Saving’ Our Children by Raising Them to Become Serfs
For almost a century the Soviet Union preached the doctrine of service to "the people." Toil, sacrifice, and suffer, the Soviet propagandists told their subjects; it is all being done for the good of "the people." As time went on, of course, the people found that they...
Why Children — and Adults — Love Harry Potter
A Review of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling Just what is it about Harry Potter? He and his lovely author have incited a reading revolution at a time when reading has been considered on a perpetual decline. Why do children love him so?...
Divorce is not the real issue that harms kids psychologically
Some interesting new research suggests that it's not divorce itself which harms kids psychologically; rather, it's the way parents interact with each other that affects children the most. This finding is totally consistent with my years of experience as a...
Politically Funded Education Enshrines Mediocrity
A new poll claims that a large majority of American parents are very happy with their child's public school. This is certainly not my experience. I am a family therapist in Montgomery County, Maryland -- the location of one of the "best" public school systems in the...
School Choice Wars
All politicians come out 200 percent in favor of education, especially when an election is coming up. What that usually means is that they are prepared to dump more billions of taxpayer dollars down the bottomless pit of our failing public schools, whether or not that...
Pass A Law: Al Gore’s Solution to High School Dropouts
Al Gore promises that, if elected, he will make it illegal for all teens to drop out of high school before age 18. (Currently they may drop out at 16). In other words he wants to use the guns and threat of police force to physically force students to not drop out....
Faith Over Freedom
Vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman recently called for the United States “to reaffirm our faith and renew the dedication of our nation and ourselves to God and God’s purposes.”
Teacher’s Union Lies
Many people hear only one side of the story of our public schools, because only the teachers' unions have both the incentives and the millions of dollars required to produce sustained advertising campaigns about education. These campaigns intensify during an election...
Freedom in Education: Pro Choice or Pro Monopoly
It is amazing how many people who are "pro-choice" when it comes to abortion are against choice when it comes to education. Indeed, that is the official position of the Democratic Party. Despite Al Gore's rhetoric at the Democrats' convention in July about being...
The “Feel-Sorry-For-Me” Olympics
Throughout the Olympics, athletes from around the world who had worked their entire lives to reach the pinnacle of their abilities gave many great performances. Let us remember, celebrate, and reward them for their virtues and not for their suffering.
One Solution for Education’s Woes: Home Schooling
To counteract the damage caused by Progressive Education, Woiceshyn put together a rigorous program of core academic subjects designed to motivate learning, build a solid foundation of essential knowledge and basic skills, and train logical thinking.
Australia’s “Original Sin”: Why Prime Minister Howard Should Not Apologize to the Aborigines
The 2000 Olympics opened last Friday (15.Sept.00) in a "splendidly diverse and inclusive" (New York Times, editorial, 17.Sept.00) portrayal of Australia. The symbol of the aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman carrying the Olympic flame in its final stage "shined a...
My Home-School Experience Demonstrates the Benefit of a Rational Approach to Education
It was painful to watch. Our bright 9-year-old son was rapidly losing his love of learning. Dissatisfied with his private school, the best we could find, I decided to postpone my second career as a writer and home-school him--a choice many Americans are forced to make...
Johnny Can’t Think But He’s a Great Guesser
“Unable to deal with words or with numbers — having no means of knowing, but only of guessing — the child loses confidence in his mind.”
Discovery, Capitalism and Distributive Justice by Israel M. Kirzner
The heart of Professor Kirzner’s argument is that every discovery of a new opportunity is the appropriation of that which had not existed before a human mind had seen the potential in that object. And, hence, the profit earned by bringing that opportunity into existence justly belongs to the creator and discoverer.
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