The televised conversation of US Senate candidates Gordon Howie and Rick Weiland is getting some attention around the state. Now, you can watch it too. And PLEASE… don’t forget to SHARE with your friends so they can watch it too!…
Career politicians often feel comfortable calling themselves “fiscal conservatives.” Avoiding deficit spending sounds as though little is actually taken away from the voters. Balancing budgets and reducing overall government spending has a nice ring while on the campaign trail. Even…
More than anything actually learned in the classroom, the hobbies that children pursue are probably the best indicator of academic success in the years ahead. Reading is perhaps the most telltale. What students read on their own, beyond homework, will…
People in the affluent West often condescendingly look down on Third World countries, but National Geographic Magazine‘s Robert Draper has discovered that such prejudice is unfounded. Impoverished and dysfunctional cities actually have their own exuberance, he says: “We are…
by Michael Ryerson, USMC, 1966-1968 They came in low and hot, close to the trees and dropped their tail in a flare, rocked forward and we raced for the open doorways. This was always the worst for us,…
Several branches of government seem to get their way even with the most morally outrageous cases. Look at taxpayer-funded agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or the Human Relations Commission, for example. High-sounding politically correct titles, to…