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What's the matter with Soledad O'Brien?

Michelle Malkin

by Michelle Malkin

March 14, 2012

CNN's Soledad O'Brien isn't used to criticism. In the world of media elites, she's a beloved figure and an award-winning news anchor.

But last week, she revealed her true, decidedly non-neutral colors. And she's not happy about the hoi polloi questioning her hallowed journalistic objectivity. On Thursday, O'Brien interviewed Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief of the late Andrew Breitbart's online empire. Breitbart's BigGovernment.com released a 1991 video of Barack Obama (then a 30-year-old law student) at a Harvard rally embracing radical racialist Derrick Bell and his push for more aggressive race-based hiring at Harvard. Bell is a proponent of critical race theory (CRT), which posits that America remains a hopelessly racist country dominated by Jews and white supremacists.

What's the Return on Education?

The New York Times

by Anna Bernasek

December 11, 2005

SOCRATES once said that the more he learned, the more he became convinced of his own ignorance. It's a familiar feeling for anyone who tries to make sense of the American education system.

This academic year, the better part of $1 trillion will be spent on education in the United States. That's an awful lot of spending, approaching 10 percent of the overall economy. But what exactly is the return on all of that money' While the costs are fairly simple to calculate, the benefits of education are harder to sum up.

What's Wrong with Making Future Generations Pay for our Debt?

Pajamas Media

by Frank J. Fleming

August 6, 2011

Unless they get so angry at us that they send terminators from the future to kill us.

Wow, that whole debt-ceiling debate was scary. For a while there, it looked like a few radical extremists were going to keep the country from going further into debt. And then where would we be? Without all the free stuff we like, because some people are stuck on the primitive notion that a budget should balance? I think you can say without hyperbole that people who think like that are literally terrorists, except a million times worse. What makes people think the government should spend less money than it brings in? Probably racism. Also, a lust for violence. Because there is no logical reason for the government to spend less. None.

When Children See Internet Pornography

nytimes.com

by Amy O'leary

May 10, 2012

PARENTS have learned to expect, and often dread, two sex talks with their children: the early lesson about the "birds and the bees" and the more delicate discussion of how to navigate a healthy sexual life as a young adult.

But now they are wrestling with a third: the pornography talk. There is no set script, and no predictable moment for the conversation. It can happen at as early an age as 6 or 7, when a child may not yet understand the basic mechanics of sex. It is typically set off by a child's accidental wanderings online or the deliberate searches of a curious teenager on a smartphone, laptop, tablet or one of the other devices that have made it nearly impossible to grow up without encountering sexually explicit material.

When Data Don't Mean That One Way Is Best

The New York Times

by Michael Winerip

July 16, 2011

Too often in education, there is a rush to compare programs, schools or even entire reform movements that simply are not comparable.

A case in point. A few months ago, I wrote about the Kauffman Foundation's scholarship program, which guaranteed poor children at public schools in the Kansas City, Mo., area a free college education. Starting in 1988, the foundation chose 1,394 ninth graders and with a staff of 11 to provide a safety net, offered assistance that would be available all the way through college.

When DROPOUT isn't a bad word: Some local teens are thriving by setting their own schedules and learning by doing

The Patriot Ledger

by Sydney Schwartz

December 15, 2006

Anna Finklestein left Sharon High School after the ninth grade because she was bored and felt she could put her time to better use.

She started a professional theater company for young adults, interned at Boston's Huntington Theater and took college courses at the Harvard Extension School. "I'm unschooled. I basically control what I do," said Finklestein.

When MEDICINE becomes MURDER: America's vaccine narrative now mirrors Nazi eugenics propaganda

naturalnews.com

by Mike Adams

February 23, 2015

With each passing day as vaccine fanaticism spreads like a virus of the mind across the mainstream media, America is marching down the path of genocide and heinous human rights violations in the name of "SCIENCE!"

The very arguments used by today's vaccine pushers to claim that the government should force everyone to be vaccinated against their will closely resemble the eugenics justifications of Nazi Germany. The collection of Nazi propaganda posters you see below has been translated by Natural News in order to show the parallels between Nazi crimes against humanity and today's fanatical vaccine mandate schemes that are based on very similar moral justification and distorted logic.

When Parents Are the Professors

The Washington Post (DC)

by Milton D. Carrero Galarza

July 16, 2011

Manassas Family Decides to homeschool Children Right Through College

When Schools Ignore Parents

Investor's Business Daily

by Matthew Robinson

July 16, 2011

Reformers Find Ways To Fight City Hall And Win

Like many parents, Vukmir's simple interest in her child's education soon became unwelcome.

When Science Is Wrong: The Threat of 'Truth' by Consensus

Pajamas Media

by Walter Hudson

October 4, 2011

The potential derailment of Einstein reminds us of our limitations and man's finite knowledge.

Einstein may have been wrong. New evidence suggests that the speed of light, central to his special theory of relativity, may not be the ultimate speed limit. If the findings hold up, everything we think we know about the inner workings of our universe will need to be revised. This potential discovery reminds us that science is a continual process which is rarely conclusive. That should inform our regard for politicized scientific claims.

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