Opinion

On Teaching and Tutoring (Part 2)

In my previous column I wrote that it is almost impossible to become a good, innovative teacher in today’s public schools. I base...

Sam Blumenfeld August 31, 2012

American Middle Class Being Compressed Out of Existence

Charles Scaliger August 29, 2012

For the last decade, household incomes have been declining steadily, and the American middle class is being squeezed. In fact, barring a very...

Is D’Souza Correct About Obama?

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. August 29, 2012

I haven't seen 2016: Obama's America, but it is based on Dinesh D'Souza's book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, that I reviewed upon...

Entitlement Reforms

Thomas Sowell August 29, 2012

In both Europe and America, there are many people who get angry at those who tell them the truth that the money is...

Insurance: Risky Business

Thomas Sowell August 28, 2012

Insurance is all about risk. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks — namely,...

2016: Obama’s America Makes Impressive Box Office Jump

Raven Clabough August 27, 2012

2016: Obama’s America, an anti-President Obama documentary, finished at number eight at the box office this past weekend. Its unabashed criticism of President...

Platform Chairman Waffles on “Rape Exception”

Jack Kenny August 27, 2012

The chairman of the Republican Party's Platform Committee said Sunday that the GOP is a "pro-life party" that takes no stand on whether...

On Teaching and Tutoring

Sam Blumenfeld August 27, 2012

There is a world of difference between classroom teaching and one-on-one tutoring. I’ve experienced both and know the difference. Classroom teaching is more...

Socializing Incomes Through Denigrating Success

Ralph R. Reiland August 27, 2012

There was nothing new in President Obama’s admonishment that “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that — somebody else made that...

Obama Puts Millions More on the Dole

Wallis W. Wood August 24, 2012

Did you know that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get more people to...

“2016: Obama’s America”: A Powerful Movie

Thomas Sowell August 23, 2012

Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie 2016: Obama's America...

The American Planning Association and Its “Faulty” Handbook

Warren Mass August 23, 2012

With great fanfare, the American Planning Association (APA) reported results of a recent survey the group conducted, (Planning America: Perceptions and Priorities) showing...

Turning Normal Readers Into Defective Readers

Sam Blumenfeld August 23, 2012

Back in the early 1900s, when the professors of education were working overtime to find “scientific” justification for changing reading instruction in American...