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by Gary Jason – The failure of the American K-12 public school system has been obvious for decades. Some of us fossils can recall the public uproar that accompanied the release of the report “A Nation at Risk” back in 1987, documenting the mediocre at best, disastrously bad at worst performance of the nation’s public [...]

Conservatives warned about it, economists predicted it, and now it’s here. Inflation has arrived and it’s taking off like a rocket. IBD reports that wholesale prices, often a precursor to consumer prices, rose at an yearly rate of 8% in February. The story warns: “Food prices today are the highest on record, rising at double-digit [...]

We need politicians to get their hands off our money, get off our backs, and stop treating us as though they have the carrot and we’re the donkey. We’ve grown those carrots and they belong to us.

5/10/2010 – Robert J. Samuelson – What we’re seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn’t Greece’s problem alone, and that’s why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised [...]

The Wall Street Journal | by John Mackey | Aug. 11, 2009 With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible [...]

Breitbart – Big Hollywood | by James Hudnall | May 10, 2009 There’s an old saying that says, “So goes California goes the nation.” As the world’s eighth largest economy, and one of the world’s richest, California is in many respects a microcosm of the US. It has geographical and population diversity. It has major [...]

American Thinker | by Lloyd Brown | April 10, 2009 Whew! That was close. Nearly 1,700 children had escaped from the failing public schools in Washington, D.C., and were getting a decent education in private schools – just like the children of fat-cat liberal politicians. But the fat-cat politicians in Congress put a stop to [...]

I have just sent this appeal to my representatives in Washington. Feel free to copy and paste and send to your representatives. Dear Representative, Please do NOT support the $700 Billion Bailout Plan until the Banks and the Lending institutions identify the Toxic Loans and DE-BUNDLE them. It would take very little effort on their [...]

Fast Company | by Jeff Chu | September 2008 No one is attacking Washington, D.C.’s stagnant culture more boldly than Michelle Rhee, head of the city’s failing schools. Is there a lesson here for our nation’s leaders? Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior High School in Washington, D.C., is one of the worst schools in one of [...]