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Teacher Licensure Laws Are Keeping Some of America’s Top Educators Out of Schools0
- Education
- May 18, 2017
My homeschooled children take weekly math classes with a gifted teacher who has been teaching math to kids for more than 30 years from her cozy city home. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), she decided that offering math tutoring and enrichment classes would enable her
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Let’s Hit Left-Wing Colleges Where It Hurts. In the Pocketbook.0
- Economics
- May 18, 2017
Parents, taxpayers, and donors have little idea of the levels of lunacy, evil, and lawlessness that have become features of many of today’s institutions of higher learning. Parents, taxpayers, and donors who ignore or are too lazy to find out what goes on in the name of higher education are nearly as complicit as the
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Female Applicant Rejects Ivy League School After Receiving Gender Neutral Acceptance Letter0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
This story has made the rounds in some major media and much social media. Which means it still stands out in this tense cultural climate with gender ideology pervading institutions, politics and media. And the topic of many of Pope Francis’ addresses. This time, it was Brown University, “one of the country’s most selective undergraduate colleges” according to this Wall
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Bill Nye’s Doomsday Predictions on Overpopulation Get Lambasted0
- Culture
- May 18, 2017
Bill Nye has been in the news a lot lately, mostly as the result of the hyperbolic predictions he is prone to making, many of which are backed up with very little science. Whether it’s on gender identity, global warming, or philosophy, Nye can often be found serving up “a gold mine of fallacies, half-truths,
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Are American Schools Creating a ‘Stupefied’ Generation?2
- Education
- May 18, 2017
In recent months, it has been reported that studying and performing Shakespeare has dramatic effects on the academic performance of young students. In fact, one school in Australia found their exam scores increased more than 40 percentage points after Shakespeare lessons were incorporated into the curriculum. Because of these dramatic effects, I took notice of
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Why Did Comey Say Nothing if Trump Asked Him to ‘End His Investigation’?0
- Politics
- May 17, 2017
Headlines everywhere are declaring that President Donald Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to “end his investigation of Michael Flynn.” The headlines appear to derive from memos Comey took after meetings with Trump—meetings Comey felt were “improper”—as well as anonymous sources who claim to have seen the memos. The evidence of Trump’s possible obstruction, which
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Was ‘Last Man Standing’ Cancelled Because ABC Dislikes Conservative Values?0
- Culture
- May 17, 2017
Turn on Saturday Night Live and you will find Melissa McCarthy dressed as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and making fun of the Trump Administration. Or odds are you will at least see some skit mocking right-of-center America. And that’s not unusual for TV today. That’s why it is so refreshing for conservatives to
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There’s a Simple Reason Why More Women aren’t CEOs0
- Culture
- May 17, 2017
Did you ever read the novel Pollyanna as a child? If so, you may remember the scene where stern Aunt Polly lays out a strict schedule for her niece, Pollyanna. This daily to-do list dampens the effervescent Pollyanna, who exclaims: “Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just
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The President Is Not the Commander in Chief of the United States, Nor Its CEO0
- Education
- May 17, 2017
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” yesterday that “the president is the CEO of the country,” and thus “he can hire and fire whoever he wants. That’s his right.” Leaving aside the question of whether the president can fire everyone in the federal government, she is wrong on
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