Israel and a Diaspora in Danger
At the 40th annual Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations meeting held in Jerusalem February 17-20, 2014, top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister...
View ArticleThe Left Versus Minorities
If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left’s avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and the place would be New York City, where far...
View ArticleTeach Your Children Well
Following the horrific attacks on 9/11, I began to ask, like most Americans, what happened to our country. As I researched and talked to experts, the issues of radical Islam and the attacks on America...
View ArticleWhite Teachers Thought They Were the Solution
Nobody works harder or spends more money to elect liberals than teachers and their labor unions. But these same elected officials are now asking the one question that teachers never thought they would...
View ArticleThe Tech Industry’s Immigration Lies
One of the primary narratives associated with comprehensive immigration reform has nothing to do with the millions of low-skill workers that would be granted an opportunity to compete against Americans...
View ArticleObama’s School ‘Punishment Equality’ Folly
George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled “Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To...
View ArticleDemonizing the Helpers
It is not easy to demonize people who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to help educate poor children. But some members of the education establishment are taking a shot at...
View ArticleEducation and Moral Bankruptcy
If you want to get some idea of the moral bankruptcy of our educational system, read an article in the May 4th issue of the New York Times Magazine titled, “The Tale of Two Schools.” The article is not...
View ArticleEthnic Studies = Social Justice
As Latinos overtake non-Hispanic whites as California’s largest ethnic group, a bill is now before the California state Senate which would require the Education Department to form a task force to study...
View ArticleActivism: The Ideal of a ‘Liberal Arts Education’
Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary, America: Imagine a World without Her, features interviews with such leftist academic rock stars as Howard Zinn. However, it’s crucial for Americans, and...
View ArticleRemembering American Exceptionalism on Independence Day
It was 238 years ago today that 56 men pledged “their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor” for the freedom of a new nation, signing a document that might have been their death sentence, the...
View ArticleDe Blasio’s War on Achievement
New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves “progressive,” is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that...
View ArticleThe New Shame of the Cities
To order John Perazzo’s new Freedom Center pamphlet, “The New Shame of the Cities,” click here. Introduction: American politics is dominated by an enduring myth—that Democrats are the party of the...
View ArticleBill Whittle: The Struggle for Stupidity
Sci-Fi Author Jerry Pournelle recently re-published a sixth grade reader from 1914. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle explains how full comprehension of a single paragraph from that...
View ArticleThose Who Go Unsung
The vast majority of Americans have never met Phil Weinberg. But that isn’t because he’s unimportant. It’s because he is important. Like millions of Americans who toil largely in anonymity,...
View ArticleWhy ‘Diversity’ Means Quotas
Earlier this year, Sonia Sotomayor appeared on ABC’s the week to plug her new book, My Beloved World. ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos declared that the Supreme Court Justice “knows that affirmative...
View ArticleFighting Jihad with Education
Reprinted from Aish.com. In this time of great danger – with Iran threatening Israel with nuclear annihilation, and jihadists on borders north and south – Israel’s efforts to tell its story to the...
View ArticlePreaching Allah in Our Schools — on The Glazov Gang
[Subscribe to the Glazov Gang’s YouTube Channel and LIKE it on Facebook.] This week’s Glazov Gang was guest-hosted by PolitiChicks.com Editor-in-Chief Ann-Marie Murrell and joined by Becca Keating,...
View ArticleTime for Congressional Hearings on Big Education
The Republican leadership in Congress still hasn’t held hearings on why college is so expensive, although I proposed the idea two weeks ago. Of course, it’s been a month since the GOP took control of...
View ArticleScott Walker, Marie Harf, and a College ‘Education’
That Wisconsin Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker never graduated from college renders him ineligible for the office of the presidency. Or so says such critics as Howard Dean when they...
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