Universally, democracy is being exalted. Everywhere one turns, one hears of its virtues: how democracy ensures human rights, fosters prosperity and shepherds in modernity. Yet democracy represents nothing more than the tyranny of the majority. In other words, contrary to
Last summer, unions spent an estimated $10 million on the Democratic primary in Arkansas in a failed attempt to defeat then-Senator Blanche Lincoln. It was $10 million worth of their members’ dues that was wasted. Unions did not waste their
Jose Maria Aznar, former prime minister of Spain, grasps how free people should respond to the revolt in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East: On the one hand, they must do all within their power to “support those seeking
“They put incompetent adults ahead of children,” Richard Riordan says of teachers unions who stand in the way of school reform. The former mayor of Los Angeles took office shortly after the 1992 riots and shortly before the massive 1994
From Americans for Prosperity, video of a public sector union protest yesterday on Capitol Hill. After years of steady pay increases, enhanced pension and other benefits and titanium-strength job security, public employee unions are starting to worry that the economic
Even though the condition of the Oakland Unified School District is so bad that the state of California had to take it over, don’t expect the Oakland Education Association to be bothered with such trivialities. So what if thousands of
It is no secret that, since the passage of the healthcare law, the states have been desperately scrambling to figure out how to pay for the millions of people who are to be added to the Medicaid rolls if the
Former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker made teachers’ unions what they are today. He was hard-nosed defender of teachers’ rights, but he also came clean about public school performance. [youtube jQF_lnOUpEk] In the making of “Kids Aren’t Cars,”
This is the most recent installment of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor on his book revealing how communists, from Moscow to New York to Chicago, have long manipulated America’s liberals/progressives. Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a
If you’re hip to the movie news, by now you know that British actor Henry Cavil has been cast as Superman in Zach Snyder’s upcoming reboot. That’s right, a man born and raised in the British Isles will be portraying
The next time you hear of a school district that cannot afford new textbooks for its students, or is forced to lay off teachers due to budget constraints, remember the following story. A former public school superintendent in Wayne Township,
Last evening on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow took a few moments on her show to jab at the Beltway press, suggesting that the press in DC is so annoyed at being “sidelined” by the Egypt story that it’s “clawing and scratching
“Twitter, Facebook, and various instant messaging platforms (SMS, Skype, Google Chat, etc.) act as force-multipliers for revolutionary movements…” — Jeffrey Carr ________________ As the world watches Egypt crumble into chaos, with over 100 dead and 2000 injured, the Obama administration
What’s the best way to free American kids from failing neighborhood schools? How can we dislodge the public sector unions and bureaucrats that suck resources from kids? Is it possible to bring dynamism and innovation to our education sector? Reason.tv
There was BIG news in Washington yesterday: Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), have introduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act. Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) introduced the Secret Ballot Protection Act (SBPA), legislation that will guarantee
The one good thing about sitting through the painful lies and propaganda of Obama’s State Of The Union address was seeing the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, in Nancy Pelosi’s seat. Seriously, you know it was killing her.
I agree with the liberal blogosphere- Obama’s State of the Union was “Reaganesque.” Well written and well delivered. Awe-inspiring. Except that it was all distortions, false promises, and bait and switch. Don’t believe a word. It was pure sales and
Finally; it seems we may have a Congress that takes seriously the urgent need to rein in the unsustainable deficits and the accumulation of public debt that so threaten the future well being of the nation. Thank goodness for the
Good for Bill Cosby and his righteous apostasy. Follow the legendary sitcom star and stand-up comedian on Twitter @BillCosby The Left’s insistence on condemning impoverished kids to failing schools is one of the great under-reported crimes of our time. While
It’s never a good day when one of the most wicked organizations on the planet is pleased by anything. But how could America’s teachers unions not have been thrilled with the news that Davis Guggenheim’s damning indictment of the devastation
Yesterday Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media had a piece on the controversy surrounding CPAC and the American Conservative Union’s board member Suhail Khan. See a lot more on Khan’s troubling associations here, here and here. An alarming prospect: a widespread
Barack Obama attended a private school as a youth. He even sends his daughters to one. But as president he wants to deny that same opportunity to low-income students in the District of Columbia. After two years of limiting educational
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold hearing today on “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action,” including recommendations to stop funding the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Perhaps now that the U.S. debt crossed 14 Trillion
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers.
Sunday begins National School Choice Week, the annual seven-day period in the middle of winter when kids all over the country dream of either: (1) having the freedom to stay home from school on account of snow, or (2) moving
