Public Education is Not Accountable to Parents

Alberta’s premier, Ralph Klein, recently mused out loud about implementing a voucher system for education, which lets individual parents decide which school, public or private, will receive their education dollars. Predictably, champions of public education were...

Militant Islam Reaches America

An excerpt from the Introduction of Daniel Pipe’s latest book Militant Islam Reaches America.Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in 1979 with “Death to America” as his slogan, and hundreds of Americans lost their lives to militant Islam over the...

America’s “Friendly” Allies

On the eve of its planned war against the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the United States — led by President Bush — is once again hesitating. Why? Because Russia, France and Germany have declared that they won’t like us and will call us mean if we...

Blacks and Guns

Black Americans have a serious problem with guns. They don’t have enough of them. Despite being victimized by crime at several times the rate of whites, only 30% of black adults own guns, compared to 43% of whites.(1) Blacks are also heavily represented in...

History, Truth and Postmodernism

The writing of history is one of the most enduring cultural activities of Western civilisation. It originated in ancient Greece some 2400 years ago and has continued in roughly the same form down to this day. Its first great practitioner, Thucydides, decided that to...

Killed by Social Services

Angelo Marinda was a cute little baby but he never lived to see his first birthday because he was another victim of a widespread pretense of knowledge that has produced many tragedies. Twelve days after he was born last April, little Angelo was in a hospital being...