AJC: On Sunday, December 6th, President Barack Obama paid a visit to Senators on Capitol Hill to urge them to pass health care reform. Senate leaders are working to rally 60 supporting votes to get this bill passed.
Monthly Archives For December 2009
Empire State Christmas Blues
In the Minoa School District, parents received a letter from their school with strict limits that essentially ban all things Christmas from the school’s program.
The Road to Copenhagen
starts in academia and wait until you see what it costs.
Oregon School Bans Tree
Catholic League president Bill Donohue describes the latest war on Christmas.
School Throws Out Santa
Principal Michelle Zundel of Bellview Elementary School in Ashland, Oregon, has banned Christmas trees and Santa Claus from her school.
Binghamton Professor Antoun, R.I.P.
Our prayers go out to the family and friends of former Binghamton University professor Richard T. Antoun, who was brutally murdered on Friday.
Voodoo on Kindle
In Voodoo Anyone? How to Understand Economics Without Really Trying, journalist and educator Christopher T. Warden shows how markets work and what happens when they are bypassed.
Hopeless Change
Always check the vintage of ideas that academic, political and media-elites label “new.”
Road Split in Homeland Security
Are Americans well-prepared to deal with megadisasters? And, if so, should disaster preparedness strategies focus on local implementation or central federal prescripts?
Sex Ed Overwhelms Abstinence
Opponents of abstinence education who say it doesn’t work speak with some authority: They’ve been doing their level best to defeat it.