Aristocracy vs Wealth Redistribution-- What Did the Founding Fathers Say?
There are many well-documented misunderstandings regarding the opinions and values of the Founding Fathers. One of the biggest and farthest reaching misunderstandings regards the role of government in...
View ArticleIndoctrination vs Critical Thinking: One Take on the Church/State Thing
There is a lot of talk lately about School Vouchers, Faith Based Schools, Intelligent Design, Climate Change Deniers, Loch Ness Monster Disproving Darwinsim (that's my current favorite). It all gets me...
View ArticleEducational Fraud: A Call to Action. Reject Common Core!
The so-called educational reform movement in America is a total fraud. There I said it. No mincing of words, no watered down argument. The movement to standardize all classrooms in America with a...
View ArticleEducation Fraud Part II
Several day ago I posted an article calling The Common Core reform movement in American schools a fraud. I even when so far as to say that “Common Core is not only pedagogically unsound, it is...
View ArticleIn This Campaign One Issue Rises to the Top Tier
Taxes. Unemployment rate. Energy policy. Obamacare. Is it 47% or 30% or 100%? Vouchers for students and vouchers for seniors. The war on women. War with Iran. And occasionally we talk about...
View ArticleLiars Lie. So Don't Believe Them. Period. Is That So Difficult?
The first debate is over and Americans are discussing how Governor Romney looked presidential. We are debating his newfound policies that make him more palatable to the working class. We are wondering...
View ArticleEducation Fraud Part III, Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create...
http://blogs.edweek.org/...Below are some selected quotes from Yong Zhao's article on Common Core.The Common Core Standards Initiative is having a great time, much like NCLB in its early days, with...
View ArticleJoe Hits Clean-up
Drove doubles into the gaps all night long.Drained 3's from way downtown.Kick off return untouched coast to coast.Slam dunked with the defense flatfooted in the paint.Slammed one deep into the left...
View ArticleA Very Graphic Look at Employment
I cannot help but believe that Romney and Obama must be living in two alternate universes that converge like some steroidal Venn diagram that barely touches, much less has any overlapping space. Even...
View ArticleIf We Really Want to Fix Our Schools Let's Be Certain to Get the Correct Picture
I agree that America needs to address some serious deficiencies in the nations schools. But let’s be certain that we are addressing the real issues. If we keep making decisions based on bad information...
View ArticleThe International Student Testing Myth
From: Japan and its standardized test-based education system By Kevin Burns[At age 12] exam hell starts and from which students never really recover. The standardized test-based education system of...
View ArticleMy Top Three Moments of the Debate (that nobody else picked).
#3 When Romney went into his explanation of the Pakistani leadership. Did you see him play that three part shell game thing with his hands?#2 When Romney sarcastically accused the president of...
View ArticleWhy I'm Voting for Barack Obama
It really is pretty simple. I weigh the candidates the same way I choose my friends.Does my candidate follow the Golden Rule? Does my candidate believe he is his brother’s keeper? Not his boss or his...
View ArticleThe Republican Ten Commandments
1. I am the Lord thy God. Even though the Constitution says so, no other beliefs except those in me shall be respected.2. Thou shalt have no other Gods–except the acquisition of great wealth–before...
View ArticleConservatism by Osmosis
Driving south from Spokane on 395, across the part of the country shaped by a whole lot of oozing lava scoured by repeated floods into a tough land of hill and coulee, the dominant features for my next...
View ArticleHas Romney Offended You Yet? Don't Worry, There's Still Time.
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are counting on one of two things: either you don't know or you don't care. If you fall into any other category they have already written you off. Think for just a moment...
View ArticleDo You Have These Offensive Political Signs in Your Town, Too?
This sign greets all visitors to our town.
View ArticleGerrymander for 174
It’s late and I want to write. I am compelled to write. But all I have on my mind these days is the presidential election. And I do not want to write about that. It is depressing. The wasted money by...
View ArticleHell Yes Your Vote Matters! Consider This...
What if George W. Bush had never been elected? What if in any one of those swing states enough people had voted so that the election never even got to the Supreme Court? Just how different might this...
View ArticleMy Own Unscientific Poll
Sitting at home grading essays from my Goverment class. After watching the debates from both the major and minor candidates, and discussing a lot in class for a month, students were asked to choose a...
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