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Our Over-Controlled Society is Damaging Children’s Social Skills0
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- December 11, 2015
Have you ever wondered what happened to the days when children could roam through the neighborhood, building forts in empty lots, walking to the store a half mile away, and inventing all sorts of games to play up and down the block? According to Angela Hanscom’s column in today’s Washington Post, well-intentioned caution has caused
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American Students Don’t Know History0
- Culture
- December 11, 2015
As we and many others have pointed out, many policy debates these days devolve quickly into emotionalism. Should we be surprised when too many American students lack the tools with which to engage in public discourse? According to the Nation’s Report Card, produced by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which is considered the
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A Fatal Tendency of Mankind0
- Culture
- December 11, 2015
Here’s what the Library of Economics and Liberty has to say about Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850): “Joseph Schumpeter described Bastiat nearly a century after his death as ‘the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived.’ Orphaned at the age of nine, Bastiat tried his hand at commerce, farming, and insurance sales. In 1825, after he inherited
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This 1896 Text Gives One Clue on Handling High School Discipline0
- Culture
- December 10, 2015
The prevalence of school discipline issues has escalated in recent years, so much so, that last Friday, a Minnesota high school student assaulted a teacher during a fight, leaving him with traumatic brain injury. How do we restore order and handle such glaring discipline issues in our schools? An 1896 article by Chas. L. Biedenbach
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The solution to school debt? Prostitution.0
- Culture
- December 10, 2015
The old joke calls prostitution “the world’s oldest profession”. Alas, in our ever-changing world of words, some of today’s prostitutes prefer a different term: “Sugar Baby”. It’s all about marketing, right? From the NY Post: “After a sushi dinner a few years ago, the date of Sara-Kate, then a college student living in Boston, suggested
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The Ideologies of Capitalism and Socialism0
- Culture
- December 10, 2015
“Capitalism” and “socialism” both are 19th century ideological tags; they delude and ensnare, as do all ideologies. Zealots for “democratic capitalism” seem to have forgotten that it was Karl Marx who made the word “capitalism” a theoretical concept. Surviving enthusiasts for an abstraction called “socialism” impose killing burdens upon themselves by endeavoring to maintain a
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Sharia Law: Accepted in America?0
- December 10, 2015
This week, Pew Research Center released a report with a number of interesting facts on the Muslim religion. According to the report, the Muslim population is projected to overtake the Christian population by the year 2100. Such an occurrence would make Islam the largest religion in the world. If Islam does become the largest religion
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High School Violence: A Sign that Schools Need Stronger Discipline Policies?0
- Culture
- December 10, 2015
Teachers in Minnesota’s St. Paul Public Schools district are considering a strike – but not over pay or benefits. Instead, they’re concerned about their own safety. According to a local newspaper, discipline problems in the district have escalated, particularly since “St. Paul spent more than $1 million on Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco consulting
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Divorce REALLY hurts daughters0
- December 10, 2015
Who has benefited from the war radical feminists have waged against marriage? Certainly not young women. A very large new Canadian study concludes that one of the strongest predictors of depression among young women is the loss of a biological parent. And it is the easy divorces that feminists have pushed for that have typically
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