Virginia Tech Massacre #2: I Wanna Be Around When They Pick Up the Pieces
I was out grocery shopping when the news on the giant store monitor hit: Once again, there had been shootings at Virginia Tech,...
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Surveillance Technology Takes a New Twist, Morphs Again
It was reported in Tuesday’s Washington Times, among other places, that surveillance technology has taken yet another turn, this time bringing military-grade, high-tech...
Virtual Classrooms: an Exit Strategy from Toxic Public School Culture?
Homeschooling and the computer: a match made in heaven? In many ways, yes. Homeschoolers can access lessons from online sites to successfully complete...
White House Shooting Suspect Sparks Anti-Christian Diatribes
On Veterans Day, November 11, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez fired shots with a Romanian Cugir SA (semi-automatic rifle) from the general direction of the...
Surveillance Skeptics/Debunkers Get Rude Awakening
Not long ago, factions on both sides of the political aisle — from Republican Senator Charles Grassley in 1994, to liberal Supreme Court...
Justice Dept. Targets Freedom of Information Act
With the U.S. Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder continually under fire these days, it was something of a surprise, even to...
New Education Dept. Statistics Beg Questions on Race, Ethnicity
The U.S. Department of Education’s statistical and testing arm, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), released its latest “progress” report November 1st:...
Anti-bullying Amendments to Education Act Undercut Academics (Again)
All summer long, news sources reiterated complaints about the once-vaunted No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act as being unachievable. Education Secretary Arne Duncan,...
Education’s Armageddon
Just as young people were headed to universities across the nation and the K-12 back-to-school season was percolating in parents’ minds, a front-page...
Can Kidnap/Assault Victim Jaycee Dugard Successfully Sue the Feds?
Nearly all the pundits and attorneys are calling Jaycee Lee Dugard’s federal lawsuit a “long shot.” Ms. Dugard, who was abducted with a...
A “Humanitarian” Expenditure Americans Can’t Afford
With the U.S. debt having surpassed 100 percent of gross domestic product August 3, to $14.58 trillion, it’s crudely entertaining to see how...
Obama’s “Attack Watch” Website Urges Citizen Snitching
The Washington Post called it the "laughing stock of conservatives." The Washington Times dubbed it just plain "creepy" (albeit "amateurish"). But any way...
Candidates Cluelessly Pitch “Free-market Socialism”
Unbeknownst to most Americans listening to 2012 campaign rhetoric, what’s being pitched is “free-market socialism." An oxymoron? Not exactly. “Free-market socialism,” a version...
5 “Pole” Tax: A Decadent Society’s Cure for Sexual Victimization
First there were this summer’s “Slut Walks” featuring young, scantily-clad female exhibitionists bearing signs such as “I’m a slut. Don’t assault me!” The ostensible...
An “Extreme Makeover” for U.S. Education — Can We? Should We?
This is the seventh and final segment in the series on K-12 education. A front-page August 16 Washington Times’ headline screamed: “Scores show...