D.C. Resident Complains About Nonstop, Noisy Protests
As union leaders and “community organizers” ratchet up the noise level of assorted demonstrations and protests, using microphones, megaphones, and even drums that can be heard for blocks, some...
About: Beverly K. Eakman
Posts by Beverly K. Eakman
The PBS-NPR Debate’s Unmentionable Dilemma
As House Republicans pushed to eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this month, Democrats fought back with a vengeance. Barack Obama even upped the ante...
Sex and the “Study”
In an era of trillion-dollar budgets and out-sized deficits, the U.S. government continues to finance studies that nobody needs. The latest goofball “research analysis” hit the news on Thursday,...
Education’s Implosion Abetted by Unionization of Public Employees
The State of Wisconsin is a microcosm of everything that's wrong in public education, including education policy at the federal and state levels, as well as with the unionization...
Normalizing the Surveillance Society
The District of Columbia, like other metropolitan areas, has been using traffic cameras to catch motorists who speed or run red lights. It has even deployed surveillance cameras in...
Why Police “Don’t Get No Respect”
The shooting rampage in Detroit last week has spurred a re-thinking of so-called “community policing” — a method of making law enforcement appear accessible, friendly, and open to neighborhood folk....
Whatever Happened to Mommy?
The Washington Post called it “a sign of the times” when 3-year-old Zoe Rosso was suspended from her elementary pre-school for a month because she didn’t quite make it...
Are Christians Becoming Nonbelievers?
Last week (December 9, 2010), Janice Shaw Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute, a think tank for Concerned Women for America, wrote a piece on the grim...
Book Review: Sapping Americans’ Shrewdness
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry, by Lenore Skenazy, Jossey-Bass Publishers (a Wiley Imprint): San Francisco, Calif., 2009, 256 pages, hardcover,...
U.S. Supreme Court Begins Debate on “Schwarzenegger v. EMA”
On election day, of all days, the U.S. Supreme Court took on a California case challenging a law prohibiting the sale and promotion of violent games to minors. ...
School Sex Surveys Circumvent Parents’ Wishes
On Friday (Oct. 15), FOX News reported that a middle school in Washington, D.C., got itself in hot water with parents after having distributed one of today's ubiquitous sex...
Stealth Socialism: The EPA Takes Aim At Home Appliances
Your car and your light bulbs were not enough.The Environmental Protection Agency needs to throw its considerable weight around some more, in an end run toward the finish line...
Barack Obama’s $4.35 Billion “Race to the Trough”: School year 2010-2011
California may be broke, and politicians in the nation’s capital may be drowning in trillion-dollar deficits, but none of that has turned off the spending spigot in every level...
State Department Ties Its Big Spending to “Good Governance”
Reporters for the Washington Times newspaper clearly took a measured, analytical view when they learned that a U.S. State Department agency most folks never heard of, the Millennium Challenge...
“Federal Funding” by Any Other Name: Charter Schools
When it comes to expectations of the federal dollar, Shakespeare’s famous quotation about a rose still being a rose no matter what you call it (Romeo and Juliet: "That...
Biological Psychiatry – Following the Money
This final installment in the series focuses on the financial sleights-of-hand that serve both to feather the psychiatric nest and promote legislation that aids and abets the cause of...
Psychiatry’s Brave New World
After some 40 years of psychiatry-based "parenting," free societies are experiencing behaviors by out-of-control children virtually unknown in the 1950s — first-graders biting and kicking their teachers; adolescents blowing away...
A Breakthrough for Schizophrenia? Part II – Medicalizing and Treating Thought Disorders
Part I of this series opened with a recent study on schizophrenia that has sparked renewed controversy on the legitimacy of pre-screening for and treating psychological afflictions, most of...
A Breakthrough for Schizophrenia? Part I: Speculation Surrounds Babies’ MRIs
With brave new “apps” on the market every few weeks, high-tech hearing aids that use radio signals instead of microphones, DNA diagnostics for horrible diseases, and titanium replacements for...
Normalizing Perversion, Traumatizing Kids
Once upon a time, in a country half a century away, obscenity laws were enforced, parents forbade their kids (especially girls) to date until they were 16, sex was...