How to increase entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a favorite subject of “conservatives,” who like to see people pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make something worthwhile of themselves. A lot of talk goes into how tax cuts and economic stimulus packages help “the small business owner.” But if you really want to encourage entrepreneurship and help the [...]
How to reduce abortions
Conservatives who want to reduce the occurrence of abortions in the United States should vote for a Democrat.
Health Care Costs
Why not a single-payor, national, universal health-care system?
Speech by Obama at Ebenezer Church
This is a speech given yesterday (Jan. 20, ‘08) by Senator Barack Obama at the Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, the church where Martin Luther King, Jr. preached.
Movie Review: The Great Debaters
Saturday Heather and I watched The Great Debaters, a show produced by Oprah Winfrey and directed by Denzel Washington based on the actual 1935 debate team from then-exclusively black Wiley College in east Texas who did so well locally and regionally that they were eventually invited to debate against Harvard in Cambridge. How much [...]
If I were a consipiracy theorist
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would have a field day with the Bush administration, asserting that it’s all about the money. Here’s what I would say:
A Local NCLB Failure
A Local NCLB Failure
Because of failures to meet “No Child Left Behind” standards, West Middle School in Fort Duchesne, Uintah County, Utah will be forced to close its doors and the students, nearly all of them Native Americans from the Ute tribe, will be bussed 20 miles into Vernal (http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7746300).
The students will be waking up [...]
What Made the Greatest Generation Great?
As our world gets smaller and yet more complicated, meaner and yet more civilized, more interconnected and yet more divided, many look back to the 1950s as a golden time of American greatness, when we knew who we were, who the bad guys were, and who our neighbors were. The 50s were a time [...]
Reclaiming Patriotism
A few years ago I was talking to some German co-workers and they brought up how great it is to see Americans fly the flag at businesses and homes. One said that he loved Germany and the German flag, but flying the flag is looked down upon in Germany as overly nationalistic, even fascist—not [...]
Christmas Gift Idea
“The gift that keeps on giving” has become a cliché and even a joke in recent years. Well here’s a chance to make it a powerful reality.
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