What to do when your candidates are hypocrites
Full marks to Sandra Tsing Loh for honestly expressing her disapproval of the fact that both of her candidates (that would be Obama and Biden) abandoned the public school system when it came to their...
View ArticleI side with the Muslims (and Christians) on this one *UPDATED*
The article only interviewed Muslim parents, but it’s clear Christians were involved as well. These were the parents in England who pulled their young children out of school rather than have the...
View ArticleSan Francisco School Board cuts academic programs to fund gay rights at school
Two days ago, I brought to your attention the fact that the San Francisco School Board — despite facing a $113 million dollar budget shortfall over the next two years, despite its admission that it...
View ArticleDouble paying in Britain for health care
When I lived in England, those who could afford to escape from government medicine by paying twice did so. I addition to their high taxes, they bought a private insurance that I remember rejoiced in...
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Appropriate or inappropriate? Public school sends out Kaiser Obamacare...
The principal at the kids’ public high school routinely sends out emails notifying parents about upcoming events, exposures to diseases such as whooping cough, sports victories, etc. Today’s email, in...
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American schools are becoming segregated as a result of “culturism,” not racism
A friend asked me what I thought of an Atlantic article pointing to the fact that, sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, America’s schools are once again becoming segregated, as whites (and...
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Public schools — un-educating Americans, one student at a time
I was livid this morning. One of my children asked me to quiz her about rhetorical fallacies, which she was studying for a test. The teacher had put the examples together himself and they included such...
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On DACA, Marin County public schools take sides in a political fight
With DACA going before Congress, Marin County public schools are abandoning any pretense of political neutrality and are siding with illegal immigration. Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin...
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With school gun protests, Proggies make a mockery of civil disobedience
Civil Disobedience is powerful because those engaged it in willingly accept the penalties the law imposes. That’s not how Proggies play the game, though. Martin Luther King in Birmingham, once upon a...
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Stephen Colbert echoes my claim that socialized medicine is like public...
As I did, Stephen Colbert analogizes socialized medicine to public school, but he misses that this analogy reveals how bad socialized medicine will be. A little background: On Friday, Scott Adams did a...
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No. 31 Bookworm Podcast: Sophisticated South, woke teachers, Leftist...
In this Bookworm Podcast, I enjoy the lovely Southeast, examine woke teachers, dream of talking back to Leftists, and look at class and college costs. My latest podcast is up and running. You can...
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I’m finding mystifying the left’s war on re-opening schools
Teachers’ unions do not want to re-open schools. I can think of some benefits for them from this stance, but mostly I think closed schools will hurt them. I can think of three short-term reasons for...
View ArticleThe Wuhan virus has accelerated existing trends
The Wuhan virus has sped up existing processes, such as hastening inevitable deaths, changing the business world, and exposing the left. You’ve probably read that 94% of Wuhan virus deaths happened to...
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