Economic competition lowers prices, offers increased selections, and results in more features. Think of desk-top, lap-top, and tablet computers, automobiles, smart phones, televisions, and delivery of entertainment (cable, satellite, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, etc.). But when it comes to education, the State wants its monopoly and you and me to

The Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles, Calif., a temple to the religion of evolution, displayed a plaque that read as follows: “The Nature Lab is a gift to Los Angeles to celebrate all of God’s creatures and enable NHM to broaden our understanding of the natural world through

Pope Francis has stepped in the deep end of the political pool with his attack on capitalism. As with any translation into English, maybe we’re reading him wrong. I haven’t seen anything that corrects any misunderstanding of what the Pope was saying. President Obama got in the act and agreed

MSNBC has a new host. He’s Mia Farrow’s son, Ronan Farrow.1 Ronan is a smart guy. He graduated from college at 15. He graduated from Yale Law School. He subsequently studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2012. It seems that all his learning has left him bereft

Conservatives are upset that when President Obama read the Gettysburg Address for Ken Burns he did not include the phrase “under God.” Actually, I’m glad Mr. Burns had President Obama read the original written address and not a later edited version. More about this in a moment. God was not

There’s a great deal of discussion about the new Common Core Curriculum. Unfortunately, Mike Huckabee has gotten behind it. It’s not difficult to develop a curriculum if you’re not trying to propagandize children to love and obey the State. Private schools, church schools, and homeschools have no trouble turning out

Pennsylvania lawmaker Republican Rep. Rick Saccone is calling for “In God We Trust,” the same motto on the nation’s currency, to be placed on prominent display at all of the schools in the state. The bill has already passed the House Education Committee, 14 to9” It’s being called the “National

Yes, Obama lied, but that’s OK! Have you read how nearly everybody in the media and among Democrats are making excuses for President Obama about his promise that we could keep our insurance if we want to? It’s insane, but expected. Some have argued that Obama needed to lie in

Where among Asian Americans do we find anything comparable to the race hustlers in the black community? Where are the Asian versions of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? How many Asian Americans are there in Congress pushing for a specific Asian carve out for appropriations? If there are any, we

The First Amendment is a very simple statement of several freedoms, including stereotypical Halloween costumes. It’s designed to protect speech in all its forms while leaving room for laws against libel and slander. Politicians are even permitted to lie without any violation of the law unless they lie under oath

For years liberals have been saying that Tea Party members, and conservatives in general, are ignorant about science, that they are even anti-science. Nothing could be further from the truth. It’s because conservatives pay close attention to scientific arguments that they are the one group that most respects the scientific

If you really want to change America, America’s schools must be changed and the way they are funded. Whoever controls the schools controls what’s taught. America’s education system is designed to further the interests of government. Public education is government education. Government education is popular because the majority of people

A group of 25 professors at the University of Iowa has posted a letter laying down the first commandment of scientific inquiry about Darwinism: “Thou Shalt Not Doubt Darwin.” They responded to an opinion piece in the Iowa Now online newsletter that was critical of the claim that there is

You’ve most likely read the story about a German homeschooling family that was accosted by armed German policemen. Their children were taken from them for the crime of teaching their own children in their own home. Most certainly the crime of the century. You can kill your children before their

Race and color have become the latest ways to defeat an argument. Facts and reason no longer count when a subject is debated. I suspect that the reason for their non-use is that most people who come out of today’s government schools don’t know how to reason and don’t know

Martin Luther King III said the following at the 50th anniversary of his father’s “I Have a Dream” Speech: “However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin’s mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one’s skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even

The average cost to educate one government (public) school child is staggering when compared to private school education and homeschooling. A 2010 CATO Institute study revealed the following: “Real spending per pupil ranges from a low of nearly $12,000 in the Phoenix area schools to a high of nearly $27,000

Beware what you wish for. Young voters were ecstatic when Barack Obama came on the political scene. He was vetted by the media as a political messiah that would united the world with his soothing words, erase all racial conflict, and bring peace where peace was once unattainable. Their hopes