The Bielski Forest
When Germany invaded Poland in WWII, the Polish Jews that the Germans did not immediately kill were jammed in ghettos, there to await...
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Teachers Paid to do Nothing
In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet...
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Paying It Forward From Pittsburgh to Chicago
The concept of “paying it forward” — doing a good deed while asking only that the person helped would in turn help someone...
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Final Ruling in Strip Search Case
The Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the strip search of a 13-year-old Arizona girl by school officials in pursuit of drugs...
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Satellite Spying on Americans
When the Associated Press leads a story with the headline that “Homeland security kills domestic satellite program,” can you rest easily that your...
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The Standards of Our Standard
On our first day in school, most of us stood beside our desk, put our little hand over our heart, and repeated (with...
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Freedom and Progress
For more than two centuries, freedom has been the catchword of Western Civilization. What began as an abstraction from the pens of Locke,...
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VA Hospitals Botching Treatments
The Department of Veterans Affairs is at the center of a growing controversy over the improper treatment of veterans at VA hospitals. On...
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Ford Takes 5.9 Billion Government Loan
Ford Motor Company was supposed to be the only major U.S. automaker not in need of a bailout, but this week Ford accepted...
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Obama Pushes Healthcare Plan on ABC
On June 24, ABC TV gave President Barack Obama interview time with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America, a prime-time special with both...
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From Copenhagen to Hopenhagen
The ubiquitous “hope and change” theme Americans know, oh, so well — one that has become totally meaningless, a result of its overuse...
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“Unequivocal Warming”
In what might be the most anticlimactic study in history, the New York Times reports that the U.S. Global Change Research Program predicts...
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The America We Knew and Loved
A well-used copy of Consumer Reports dated March 2009 caught my eye in the doctor’s reception area. The cover story: “Great old appliances.”...
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What? Even Charter Schools Got “F’s”?
After decades of hand-wringing over nonexistent or, at best, mediocre gains in student academic achievement, the most noticeable thing to come out of...
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The New Jacobin Elite
The Socialist Party of Great Britain is celebrating the reissuing of Peter Taaffe’s book, The Masses Arise: The Great French Revolution 1789 -1815....
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