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, in Blacksburg, Virginia, 40 miles southwest...
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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 surveillance tools originally intended for intelligence-gathering...
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 their education goals, but with a...
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 Ellipse and Washington Monument toward 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 Stephen Breyer in 2008 —...
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 Capitol Hill insiders, that the Freedom...
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: The survey measuring fourth- and eighth-grade scores...
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, many state governors, the teacher unions,...
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 Washington Times’ headline disclosed on August...
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 “stun gun” on her way to...
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 multimillionaire lawmakers in Congress and administrations...
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 you look at last week's launching...
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 of “market socialism,” is so named...
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 message was that aggressive sexuality is...
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 students aren’t ready for college —...