Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My 9th grader asked for help today with a required reading about Mexico. Before helping with this assignment, I’d never heard of Brown University’s Choices Program. Having seen just a bit of its “lesson” on Mexico, I’ll be on the lookout for it. In just a few pages, it pretty
Continue readingOne of my children told me an interesting story about something that happened at her high school yesterday. Because of questions from the students, a teacher gave a brief explanation of Obamacare, which included the information that it would insure everybody and that young people would be forced to buy
Continue readingThis came out when I was on vacation this summer, but it will always be timely, as long as Leftists control educational systems:
Continue readingThe school year has started again and, with it, the insanity that is Zero Tolerance in America’s public schools. The Washington Post, which originally reported the story, helpfully explains that our nation’s schools have been busy little bees for the past year when it comes to criminalizing child’s play. I
Continue readingI wrote a prolonged grumble the other day about English teachers. In it, I mentioned an English teacher I happen to know and admire. He thinks smart thoughts and writes in beautiful English. Honestly! How lucky can his students get? In any event, he’s also humble so, rather than soaking
Continue readingMy two favorite Shakespeare plays are Julius Caesar and Much Ado About Nothing. I’m also quite partial to Richard III. My least favorite Shakespeare play is Romeo and Juliet. Sure, I know that R&J has some of the most exquisite prose and poetry in the English language. Indeed, I think
Continue readingEver since my kids hit public school, I go through this every single Fall — “this” being the discovery that their English teachers are often border-line illiterate. I know that there are wonderful, literate English teachers out there (Mike McDaniel springs instantly to mind), but my children haven’t been lucky
Continue readingThis may be the best “welcome, freshmen, to your new school” speech I’ve ever heard. It’s too bad he gave it to a completely bewildered, minimally responsive audience.
Continue readingTwo things come together in this article by Christina Hoff Sommers about the war that schools routinely wage against American boys. First, it’s written by Christina Hoff Sommers, a writer I’ve deeply admired since I first read Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women. I give her a great
Continue readingMy older child is taking AP English this fall, and has to do some reading and write some essays even before school starts. I was intrigued by two of the essays: Francine Prose’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Cannot Read : How American high school students learn to loath
Continue readingAt National Review, Katrina Trinko has a nice post about the media’s palpitating desire to see Chelsea Clinton run for office, despite the fact that Chelsea, so far, hasn’t seemed that interested. Trinko focuses on the media, not on Chelsea, and Trinko clearly has no intention of attacking Chelsea. Indeed, she
Continue readingLet’s start with that acronym — LGBTQ. It stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning. There are also adjectives that can precede LGBTQ, such as “Of color,” Black, African American, Asian, Hispanic, Disabled, etc., all of which create their own little sub groups within the LGBTQ group, which is
Continue readingDo you remember the show Good Times, the one that made Jimmy “J.J.” Walker a star? It was a spin-off of Maude which, in turn, was a spin-off of All in the Family — all Norman Lear productions. The show revolved around a black family living in the Chicago housing
Continue readingStill working on coordinating my stiff, unresponsive brain this morning, so I have nothing interesting to say. I mean, my dog is perfect, and that’s always of interest to me, but it makes for very limited blog posts. Fortunately, as is always the case with the internet, even when my
Continue readingI’ve written before about one of my favorite writers, Paul Fussell. He wrote a wonderful essay entitled Thank God for the Atom Bomb, about the righteousness of dropping the atom bomb. He was in the Army when Truman dropped the bomb, so Fussell wholeheartedly approved — and had the data
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