Do We Really Need Three Liberal New Yorkers on the Supreme Court?
The nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court by President Obama seems to ignore the democratic notion that members of the Supreme...
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Have Government Schools Become a Criminal Enterprise?
There is no doubt that American educators are engaged in a criminal conspiracy to dumb-down the American people. Charlotte Iserbyt, in her definitive...
Ritalin and Russian Roulette
It is estimated that in the United States between 4 million and 8 million children are on Ritalin, the drug being used to...
Krakatoa and Eyjafjallajokull: Should Al Gore Be Worried?
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (I-jaf-jalla-jokull) volcano on April 14, 2010, is being compared to Krakatoa’s famous eruption on August 27, 1883 which...
Illiterate Brits
Jay Leno, in his amusing Jay Walking adventures, interviews young Americans whose appalling ignorance of history, geography and other areas of basic knowledge...
Why Big City Newspapers Are Dying
The announcement about a year ago by the New York Times that it might close down the venerable Boston Globe, unless the paper...
Homeschooling and Socialism
Is homeschooling compatible with socialism and vice-versa? Apparently not, for homeschooling means parental control of education, and that is anathema to socialists. ...
Skeletons Inside the Democratic Party Closet
History is not taught very well in today's public schools, and that is why the history of the Democratic Party is totally unknown...
The Russians Laugh at America
Would you believe that Russia has become more anti-Marxist than the United States? Actually that isn’t hard to believe since the Russians suffered...
Is Humanism a Religion?
The question we ask is important. For humanism is the world view of our educational leaders, of the textbooks they write, of the...
One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
If you saw or heard President Obama’s opening remarks at the Republican Caucus meeting in Baltimore, you witnessed an expert leftist taking that...
Multiculturalism: Cultural Insanity Run Amok
The philosophy of Multiculturalism has been around since the 1970s and it now infects every aspect of American life. Its latest nefarious manifestation...
How Conservatives Can Use “Education Reform” as a Campaign Issue
All candidates for office promise to “improve education,” but when they are elected, they haven’t the faintest idea of how to proceed from...
Yes, Virginia, the System Didn’t Work and May Never Work
The fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old al-Qaida operative from Nigeria, was able to board an American airliner in Amsterdam with bomb-making...
U.S. Postal Service Goes Multicultural
In its efforts to be politically correct, the U.S. Postal Service has decided to issue holiday stamps to accommodate the beliefs and non-beliefs...