1. “Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good.” 2. “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” 3. “The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.” 4. “Most people
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The State of the Union has become an occasion for political showmanship and partisan display. But it wasn’t always that way. It was originally instituted by the Constitution as an opportunity for the President to “recommend … such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.” But most presidents didn’t take the opportunity to appear
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Apparently, the man behind the ACORN sting videos is now set on taking down a new foe: the Common Core Standards. Today, O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a video showing conversations with Dianne Barrow, an accounts manager for textbook publishing company Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt. Here it is: Significant quotes from the video include the following:
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Recently, Russia announced that it will create three new divisions along its Western flank and five new nuclear missile regiments along its Western flank. Uh oh… This latest action could mean one of two things—or more likely, both: 1) Russia wishes to ramp up its campaign in Eastern Europe. The new divisions help Moscow highlight
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“Man, they didn’t have toys like this when I was a kid!” We’ve all uttered this line while marveling over the talking gizmos and gadgets which rule today’s nurseries. But while many of these talking toys purport to advance language and childhood development, a recent study published by The Journal of the American Medical Association
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So my wife and I are coming up on 15 years of marriage. We’ve got the kids, the dog, the house, the people-mover vehicle, and a wealth of experience to prove it. While she comes from a home in which her parents soon will be celebrating 40 years of marriage, I came from a home
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