School bells are ringing again for the opening of school, but parents and students in Okaloosa County, Florida are in an uproar over a new course in the middle schools. Called “Bridges,” it is given for the first 20 minutes every morning, using New … [Read more...] about “First Aid Kit” in Florida Schools
Privacy Rights for Students
One of the largest school districts in the nation has just adopted a “Rights of Privacy Policy” which should be a model for all 15,500 school districts across the country. It was unanimously passed by the Montgomery County Board of Education, which … [Read more...] about Privacy Rights for Students
Giving Parents Real Options
AT&T recently made headlines by signing a pact with its two unions that includes what the press called an “unprecedented breakthrough” for a “family benefits package.” The centerpiece is a $5 million fund to subsidize daycare, and the … [Read more...] about Giving Parents Real Options
The Feminization of the Military
The same week that Middle East terrorists and the hostage problem dominated the news, the New York Times featured a front-page story headlined "West Point Picks Woman to Lead Cadet Corps." The position of first captain of the Corps of Cadets, the … [Read more...] about The Feminization of the Military
Privacy-Invading Survey Stirs Up Storm in Chapel Hill
Here we go again with another impertinent, obnoxious, privacy-invading questionnaire, devised by so-called education “experts” in a state university and administered to a captive audience in the public school classroom by personnel who apparently … [Read more...] about Privacy-Invading Survey Stirs Up Storm in Chapel Hill
The Injustice of Raising Taxes
The night hardly passes without television newscasts and newspapers embellishing some story with a “spin” demanding that President Bush agree to raise taxes in order to increase aid to the poor (or the homeless, or the students, or the elderly, or … [Read more...] about The Injustice of Raising Taxes
So That’s Why the Feminists Are So Bitter!
Ever since the feminist ideologues burst into our national consciousness in the mid-1960s, I have wondered where they got their peculiar notions about men. Feminist “gospel” according to Simone de Beauvoir, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Kate … [Read more...] about So That’s Why the Feminists Are So Bitter!
How Illiteracy is Concealed
Secretary Lauro Cavazos’s figures are staggering: “13 percent of our citizens are illiterate, 27 million are functional illiterates, and another 40 to 60 million could be called marginally illiterate.” Instead of responding with a plan to start using … [Read more...] about How Illiteracy is Concealed
The Dangerous Process of Gorbomania
All those who are caught up in the dangerous process of Gorbomania should come down to reality by studying an important speech given this year by Senator Malcom Wallop (R-WY) at a NATO conference in the Hague. It had almost no news coverage in this … [Read more...] about The Dangerous Process of Gorbomania
Captive Nations Week’s 30th Anniversary
An observer asked the old man, “Why in the world are you wasting your money buying a lottery ticket? Don’t you know your chance of winning is only one in ten million?” To which the old man replied, “Ah, but each ticket gives me a week of … [Read more...] about Captive Nations Week’s 30th Anniversary
