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As a parent, one of my pet peeves is the parent haters. These are the people who would prefer that children never be seen nor heard in public, and they’ll jump at any chance they get to let parents know how much they’re inconveniencing them. They are quick on the trigger to chide parents
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Tom Woods is a historian and political commentator. A New York Times Best Selling author, he received his BA from Harvard and his PhD from Columbia. I’d never heard of Woods until yesterday, when a libertarian friend forwarded to me a letter Woods sent to his readers. It began like this: Harvard University has released
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch.” The order requires his budget director, Mick Mulvaney, to complete a plan recommending specific spending cuts based on input from federal agencies and outside scholars. This is a promising initiative. It will be up to Congress to enact the administration’s
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With the increased emphasis on transparency in recent years, it has become easier for parents to get some idea of the quality of education their child is receiving. But while such transparency is good for parents and children, it’s not so great for our country’s education system. Much to the chagrin of Americans across the
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The Democratic leadership, and its leftwing intellectual base, are feeling implausibly smug these days. They figure it this way: the Trump era is going to inspire a blowback. Trump will make a terrible mess, destabilize income security and health care access, and skew social power in favor of fat cats, and all of this will
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Last year, following a rash of student violence in a Minnesota public school district, one teacher made a startling statement: “[T]eachers feel powerless to discipline. I am not exaggerating. We are told to never under any circumstances touch a student as a behavioral intervention. We have no way to discipline. If a child is running
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