Category: Education

Why Unions Are Dangerous in Education

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One would think that a teacher that had 30 some years ago allegedly impregnated a 16-year-old student, a few years later sexually accosted two 12-year-old students, and was accused of molesting yet another student four years after that, would be out on his ear never to teach or be allowed around children again. But the […]

 

Hitchens Says Sports Suck… And I Agree

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, Christopher Hitchens has finally written something with which I can whole heartedly sign on. In his latest Newsweek piece Hitchens decries the sham that is sports — especially international soccer tournies. He slams the supposed benefits of sports and rightly pinpoints the singular truth that sports brings out the worst in everyone. Hitchens eviscerates […]

 

Homeschooling German Family Awarded Political Asylum in U.S., Where is U.S. Media?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A federal immigration judge in Tennessee has awarded political asylum to a German couple who were threatened by the German government with having their children forcibly removed from their home because the couple chose homeschooling instead of sending them to state approved schools. Uwe Romeike may now stay as a legal resident in Morrisstown, Tennessee, […]

 

Liberal Professors: A Type-Casted Profession?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Right out of central casting: Pony-tailed hair, elbow pads, Birkenstocks and nubby socks, spectacles and a general dislike for people, especially, ironically, young people. Seems that there’s a reason: Nursing is what sociologists call “gender typed.” Mr. Gross said that “professors and a number of other fields are politically typed.” Journalism, art, fashion, social work […]

 

Looking For Trumbo: California’s Basket-Case Economy

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

George Will crafts quite a descriptive metaphor for California’s failing economy, comparing it to the titular ultimate basket-case soldier in Dalton Trumbo’s infamous 1939 anti-war novel “Johnny Got His Gun.” As Trumbo writes, if Johnny got his gun, then most certainly, “Berkeley Got Its Liberalism.”

 

The paradoxical effect of my “liberal” education

Posted on by Bookworm

I’m having a minor mid-life crisis. I’ve been a practicing lawyer for almost 23 years now. I’m quite good at what I do, but I hate it. And lately, it’s been getting harder and harder to flog myself into getting the work done and meeting the deadlines. (Although I should assure any current or potential […]

 

Another Example of Obama’s Radical Leftist Agenda

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Over at the American Thinker, Jay Schalin has another example of the radical leftist agenda that Obama is trying to pull over on the American people. This time we see it in the extremist agenda for education that Obama is trying to implement by revitalizing the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), […]

 

Man Who Told of Obama’s Islamic Benefactor Passes Away

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Percy Sutton, long-time Borough President of Manhattan passed away this week at 89. Sutton is famous for being Malcolm X’s lawyer and a powerful New York politician but he was also a member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a radio pioneer, and a civil rights activist. There is one more little thing that Sutton is […]

 

Professor: Say, Let’s Pardon a Domestic Terrorist

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CUNY Graduate Center professor David S. Reynolds has an idea. He wants to pardon an American criminal that is a known murderer and fanatic and who led a life that was steadily radicalized by an extreme religious ideology. This domestic terrorist even went so far as to attempt to start a war inside the USA […]

 

One Again Teachers Union Shows Kids Don’t Matter

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston A recalcitrant teachers union in Florida once again shows that reform for the sake of the kids doesn’t interest it. A federal program called Race to the Top bestows federal money on any district that institutes merit pay and reforms its schools. Guess who hates the idea. Yep, you guessed it: […]

 

Science, Smoking, Healthcare, All Prove Gov’t Can’t be Trusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Just sit back and let big daddy government show you the way. The Democrat Party is assuring us that they know better because they have science, educated people, doctors, all that “expertise” in their control and further more they “care” about us all and they want us to know that they’d never do anything to […]

 

Minnesota Teacher Brainwashing Program

Posted on by Dave Blount

You would think the moonbat brainwashers who run the education establishment could rest on their laurels, now that their ideology has blossomed into an unqualified socialist elected President of the USA on the basis of his “oppressed” ethnicity. But no, they’ve only just begun: A branch of the University of Minnesota may require all education […]

 

Oh, No You Can’t: Kids Deprived Voucher-Supported Education Obama’s Kids Enjoy

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Education good enough for thee, but not for me: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says no more low-income, mostly minority children will get taxpayer-funded scholarships to attend private or parochial schools in the District of Columbia. Duncan told CNSNews.com that school vouchers are “not the solution” to fixing D.C.’s failing public schools. Duncan made the […]

 

The Teacher’s Union That Stole Christmas

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Weekly Standard has an excellent new article in its latest issue that reports on the discouraging story of the Washington D.C. teachers union that is rushing headlong toward destroying the successful and popular federally-funded D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The program has helped many disadvantaged D.C. are kids get a better and safer education […]

 

Safe Schools Pervert Still on the Job for Obama

Posted on by Dave Blount

Shockingly, Obama’s “Safe School Czar” — the militant pervert Kevin Jennings — is still on the job, thanks to the liberal establishment media studiously ignoring revelations into the depravity he has used his opulently remunerative position at the head of GLSEN to inflict on children. Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings was the founder, and for […]

 

Bill Ayers, De Facto Education Czar

Posted on by Dave Blount

Someone’s missing from Chairman Zero’s long list of czars: Education Czar Bill Ayers, the Maoist terrorist who bombed the Capitol Building and the Pentagon, was let off on a technicality (as KSM could be), then discovered that he could do more damage to America by joining the education establishment and grooming a certain left-wing community […]

 

Why Conservatives Have Trouble Getting Elected

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The reasons that I could never get elected to any government position is the same reason why conservatives have a tough time getting elected and, if they end up elected, can’t govern in this era of the ill-educated voter. First I’ll lay out my main principles… Leave me alone Stop taxing me Shove your regulations […]

 

The End of History or a History of the End?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A few years ago, Francis Fukuyama was widely criticized for his book claiming that mankind had seen “The End of History.” Fukuyama contended that liberal democracy had won the debate over which system was best and, therefore, there was necessary no more “moving forward” for man’s social order. While Fukuyama might have thought the question […]

 

College Atheists Give Up Club: ‘What’s the Point?’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Denitown, Connecticut — Chip McKeown, president of the Atheist club at Connecticut’s College of Regional Accountant Practitioners (CRAP), has announced that the club will be disbanding at the close of this semester. Professor Freewind Pulcinski (pictured) expressed his disappointment with the move. “It was, like, totally, you, know, juss… like bummed. Ya know, man?,” the […]

 

Racism Imposed From the Bench

Posted on by Dave Blount

So much for people being judged by the content of their character. Our president was chosen primarily for his skin color; U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle in Louisiana has ruled that the same should hold true for school board members: A federal judge ordered the Tangipahoa Parish School Board this week to hire qualified […]

 

Client #9 to Address Harvard Ethics Center

Posted on by Dave Blount

Our degenerate liberal elite rulers are redefining the term “self-parody“: Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer will give a lecture Thursday afternoon at Harvard University’s ethics center, raising a few questions over what the prostitute-visiting ex-official has to say on the topic. The engagement drew an objection from the former madam whose escort service provided […]