Opinion

Don’t Celebrate That Tax Refund

Arghhh! It just happened again. No, I’m not referring to the billions of dollars hard-working taxpayers will have to send to Uncle Sam...

Wallis W. Wood April 13, 2012

Bernanke Admits Borrowing and Spending Are Disastrous for Economy

Raven Clabough April 13, 2012

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared this week that too much borrowing and spending will eventually destroy the nation’s economy. Of course, a...

Games Humanist Teachers Play

Sam Blumenfeld April 12, 2012

Values clarification is a humanist program that seeks to carry out Prof. Benjamin Bloom’s supposed purpose of education: “to effect a complete or...

Our Marxist Tax Code

Laurence M. Vance April 10, 2012

Tax season is winding down once again, but the progressivity of the tax code is still with us. Most Americans who had more...

Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene

Thomas Sowell April 10, 2012

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by...

Media Unreliability in Zimmerman-Martin Case

Ralph R. Reiland April 10, 2012

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar," said Mark Twain. ...

How to Evaluate Your Child’s School (Part 3)

Sam Blumenfeld April 9, 2012

The mastermind, or architect, behind the humanistic reorganization of the American school curriculum, by dividing it into the “cognitive” and “affective” domains, was...

Do the Media Want a Race War?

Wallis W. Wood April 7, 2012

It’s no surprise that Al Sharpton and his fellow rabble-rouser, Jesse Jackson, are doing everything they can to stir passions to the boiling...

Easter Message: On Avoiding — and Evading — the Obvious

Jack Kenny April 6, 2012

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men — George Orwell....

Hey! Mullahs! Leave Them Iraqi Emos Alone

Ralph R. Reiland April 6, 2012

No posse of morality cops ever smashed Bob Dylan's skull with concrete blocks when he changed America's music from "When the moon hits...

How to Evaluate Your Child’s School (Part 2)

Sam Blumenfeld April 6, 2012

In trying to find out about your child’s school, the most important thing is to ask the right questions. But first you must...

Commentators and Character

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. April 6, 2012

The decision to become a cultural commentator or pundit, like any other decision, comes at a cost. Perhaps not unsurprisingly, scarcely any commentator...