Was Andrew Breitbart Murdered?
Is it not a rather strange coincidence that the man who blew ACORN out of the water and threatened to expose the mainstream media for their lies would suddenly...
About: Sam Blumenfeld
Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
Can America Be Cured of Its Marxist Cancer?
When you consider how close we’ve come to the total destruction of our constitutional system of government, one must ask if it is even possible for us to recover...
What America Still Can Be
By all accounts, America at this time should be enjoying its greatest economic expansion and its greatest creation of wealth in its history. The spectacular advances in computer technology...
The High Cost of Dumbing Us Down
It now costs over $10,000 a year to “educate,” or brainwash, a child in a public school, whereas it costs about $550 to $1,000 a year to homeschool a...
How Federal Billions Fund Our Socialist Public Schools
In my book, Is Public Education Necessary?, I pointed out how the public school movement was promoted in the 1830s and ‘40s by the Owenite communists, the Harvard Unitarians,...
Why Are Teens Killing Other Teens in Schools?
The latest school shootings at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio, have reminded us that these school massacres did not end with the horrors of Columbine High School in...
More on Vaccines and Their Dangers
In my previous article on the vaccine controversy, which drew many comments, I made a very simple proposal. I proposed that the easiest way to find out if the...
Dyslexia and the Rockefellers
One of the great ironies of the Progressive Education Movement is that its leaders were able to convince John D. Rockefeller, Jr. that he ought to give his sons...
How Liberals Are Reforming Public Education
To this writer, and a good many of his friends on the Right, the best way to reform the public schools is to get the government out of the...
How California Educators Created an Educational Disaster
California has probably produced more educational failures than any other state in the union. Why? Well, let’s be blunt. They have the stupidest educators and politicians in the country....
Vaccines and Your Child’s Brain
These days, if you want to enroll your child in a public kindergarten, you have to give proof that your child has had all of his inoculations. If not,...
Fed Agents Now Monitor School Lunches
According to the latest news from our bureaucrats in Washington, agents answerable to the U.S. Department of Agriculture will now be inspecting parent-prepared lunch boxes to make sure that...
Public Education: The Sick Dinosaur on Fed Life Support
It is said that the dinosaur had a tiny brain in a huge body, which undoubtedly contributed to its extinction. This huge body also required an enormous amount of...
The New Education Boondoggle: Common Core Standards
The dictionary defines “boondoggle” as: “work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.” And President Obama's Common Core Standards education boondoggle is...
How to Become a Good Teacher
What is a good teacher? How do you recognize that rare individual? One of the problems Bill and Melinda Gates have had in making grants for education reform through...
How to Cure Dyslexia: Part 3
In my last column I stressed the need for the adult, self-teaching reader to be able to break up multisyllabic words into their syllables, so that the reader could...
How to Cure Dyslexia: Part 2
Can a dyslexic actually cure himself of his reading disability? Yes. Anyone who wants to do so can learn how English's 26 letters stand for 44 irreducible speech sounds,...
How to Cure Dyslexia
Some time ago I received a letter from England that was written by an intelligent, accomplished and motivated adult who had a “reading problem.” He had been taught to...
Why “No Child Left Behind” Hasn’t Worked
For decades, I’ve been telling my readers that the federal government ought not to be in the education business and that constitutionalist members of Congress are duty bound to...
Reading and the Brain
In a recent article on whether one should be optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future, I quoted the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts who wrote...