This week’s Conservative Bloggers Briefing at the Heritage Foundation highlighted two hot topics: school choice and taxes.
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Fired Up
Rafe Esquith is a one-in-a-million teacher: he truly believes that each of his students can be extraordinary, with proper coaching.
Fear God, Guarantee Liberty
Every complex society is led by a class of politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, judges, intellectuals, and other people who know how to influence it. Once this political or ruling class ceases to fear God, it will begin to enhance its power at the expense of the liberty of the people.
New Summertime Blues
President Obama doesn’t just have plans to reform American policies on health care, national security, and international relations—he also has great plans for education reform, including lengthening both school days and school years.
Fairly Unbalanced Contributor
Marc Lamont Hill is being presented to the FNC viewing audience on a regular basis as just “a Columbia University professor” with expertise on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.
Iran Exposed
While activists in New York City got attention for opposing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United Nations last week, the New York City protesters were not the only ones to make their voices heard. Another protest in Washington, D.C., also featured those concerned about Iran.
Iran Unmasked
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke in front of the United Nations General Assembly on September 21st, a fact that brought protestors together in cities across the United States.
Administrative Overload
A recent event, entitled Total Student Load: The Secret to Boosting School Performance?, and William Ouchi’s recent book, The Secret of TSL, both pose solutions to the challenges currently faced by the nation’s public school systems.
Internet Intervention
Affirmative Action may come to broadcasting, but will popular commentators be squeezed off the air by a new system of quotas or goals and timetables?
Choosing Schools in Nebraska
School choice has long been a topic of debate among those concerned with American education.
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Libertarian Gary Johnson Based Religious Freedom Stance on Fear and Slippery Slope
Reason highlighted the problem with Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson’s views on religious liberty, which Reason hinted that Johnson’s position is based on the ‘slippery slope’ perspective and not critical analysis.
Study: Tall People Vote Conservative
Hmm, that’s interesting…guess it’s in the genes? The study finds that in Britain “taller individuals are more likely to support the Conservative party, support conservative policies, and vote conservative.” Specifically, the researchers report that a…
How Do Democrats Plan on Paying for Free Stuff?
Reason TV interviewed Democratic delegates at the DNC convention to pick their brains on how to pay for all this free stuff they’ve been proposing:
During DNC Convention Speech, Joe Biden Cites Debunked ‘1-in-5’ Statistic
Biden gonna Biden, huh?
Anti-Semitism on Campus 2016
The anti-Semitism evident in e-mails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which WikLeaks obtained, might not surprise so many if they knew how prevalent that attitude is on American college campuses. The AMCHA Initiative housed…
Libertarians Remind Americans that Both Democrats, GOP Like a Surveillance State
Reason pointed out that despite Obama’s speech (and Leon Panetta, one of Obama’s appointees) at the DNC convention last week, he’s been a willing participant in the enforcement of an American surveillance state.
UT-San Antonio Looking to Curb Campus Carry
The University of Texas-San Antonio is looking to curtail the Texas law that will allow concealed carry on college campuses at state colleges in the Lone Star State.
Why did the RNC and DNC Conventions Suppress Free Speech?
An intriguing read over at the libertarian outlet Reason on the suppression of the First Amendment by the two major parties at their conventions the past two weeks: The freedom of speech issues arose when…
Here Lies Black Lives Matter Data
In the wake of Harvard researcher Roland G. Fryer’s finding that the central thesis of Black Lives Matter — that unarmed black suspects are more likely to be killed by white cops than white “persons…
Hillary Clinton’s Adoption of Bernie Sanders’ ‘Free’ College Tuition would Cost $35 Billion
Considering that the U.S. government already is running a deficit, adding $35 billion to it is not conducive to financial stability or common sense. This from Reason: Clinton is doing more of the same here,…
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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The Origins of Political Correctness
Emerson College: ‘Homosexual’ is Offensive to Gays so Stop Using It
Self-Identifying Marxist Professors Outnumber Conservatives as College Professors
Ayn Rand Reconsidered
Black Lives Matter Lists “White Supremacy, Patriarchy, Capitalism” Among Reasons for Orlando Attack
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