“Day after day, the wide expanses of Russia pass by. There are harvested fields as far as the eye can see, and in between some huge barns and farmsteads,” notes young Günter Koschorrek late in October 1942, as his unit…
Has Rock Music Dumbed Down American Students?
The children of working-class Americans embraced rock ‘n roll during the 1950s because it offered maximum emotional satisfaction with fewer intellectual demands. No need to bone up on academic learning when feel-good “rhythm” had no prerequisite. Did…
Town Hall Meeting in Spearfish
Saturday in Spearfish Paid for by Gordon Howie for Senate, PO Box 866, Rapid City, SD 57709
Classroom Discipline and Eric Sloane’s Little Red Schoolhouse
by Eric Sloane In early days, the word discipline did not refer to punishment as it now does, and it seems a pity that a respected word has become ugly and dreaded. Classroom discipline meant classroom rules,…
Isn’t ISIS Militarism the Historical Norm for Islam?
It’s commonplace to talk about Islam as a “religion of peace” these days, suggesting that ISIS is surely an unrepresentative historical aberration. True enough if the rank-and-file of any population can be said to be more focused on day-to-day comforts…
Is Islamism a Totalitarian System Like Nazism and Communism?
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/66347 By Ron Lipsman September 29, 2014 | Canada Free Press The concept of a totalitarian state was an invention of the twentieth century. The notion of a state or nation whose government could control virtually all aspects of its citizens’ lives was…