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3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books 0
- Family
- May 4, 2016
Over the years, I’ve heard a number of teachers and parents say a variation of the following: “I don’t care what the child reads, just as long as he is reading!” This statement always makes me uneasy. I can see the need to give a child interesting material, but I question the wisdom of letting
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Instead of Socialism, How About Making EVERYBODY a Capitalist?0
- Economics
- May 4, 2016
Debates about models of political economy typically polarize between advocates of laissez-faire capitalism and full-on socialism. It’s as if the only choices were (a) “every man for himself” in the free market, with little or no social safety net, or (b) government owning or running the most vital sectors of the economy, for the sake
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Childless Women Now Want ‘Me-ternity’ Leave?!?0
- Culture
- May 4, 2016
An interesting article from the New York Post was brought to my attention the other day. The article, written by Anna Davies, declared that single and childless women should be entitled to lengthy, excused absences from work, a concept akin to maternity leave without the children. Davies calls this leave a “meternity.” The reasoning behind
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Student Detained For Using $2 Bill to Buy Lunch 0
- Education
- May 4, 2016
Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the public school system. Imagine sending your child to school with money to buy lunch, and then being told that the child was attempting to use “fake” money to buy said lunch. (And that your child had “admitted” it was fake.) Well, that’s what reportedly happened
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Audrey Hepburn on Life under Nazi Occupation 0
- Culture
- May 4, 2016
On May 4th, 1945, future British actress and Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn celebrated her 16th birthday. Although a girl’s 16th birthday is often a special occasion, turning 16 was even more special for Hepburn, for the day also marked the liberation of the Nazi-occupied Netherlands—the Nazi-occupied Netherlands under which Hepburn had lived since 1939. The
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Would Hillary Clinton really be the first female president?0
- Education
- May 4, 2016
A cornerstone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been that she would be America’s first female president, and it has been a theme her supporters consistently have trumpeted. “When folks talk about a revolution,” Sen. Debbie Stabenow said earlier this year. “The revolution is electing the first woman president of the United States.” This makes political
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3 Simple Criteria for Choosing Books 0