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MACDONALD: A Little Education FAFO

The public school system is a jobs program for progressives. A local “franchise” of the Big Government expansion machine. The one that creates problems so it can grow itself and use your money to pay them to help progressives stay in power. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, every moral call to war … Read more

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OPINION: The Benefit of Self-Learning

Some readers have encouraged me to identify as a historian, despite my not having a degree in history. For a long time, I have been reluctant to do so, thinking it would be both presumptuous and misleading, but I have recently changed my mind. Here is why. I think the very first seed was planted … Read more

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MACDONALD: Educational Neglect

Americans for Prosperity (AFP) had a thing the other night at Abel Ebeneezer in Merrimack. It’s a few minutes from where I live, and I love their beer, so it was game on the moment the invite hit my inbox. I always meet a few people at these things I haven’t seen in a while, … Read more

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MACDONALD: The Public Ed Industrial Complex Wants Failure

Is public education broken? That depends on whether you think the goal was to redirect private resources to create knowledgeable citizens capable of self-education and self-rule. That was never its purpose, though we must confess that at least a few of the kiddies walked out the other end at least able to read and think … Read more

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The Danger of Knowledge

Some years ago, as an intellectual exercise, some friends and I were talking about what we thought was the single biggest advance in human history.

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Let’s move forward, not in circles

Driving home from PorcFest this evening, I noticed that on I-91, Vermont has combined traditional exit numbers with the new distance-based exit numbers mandated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).  For example, one of the exits is marked Exit 18/Milepoint Exit 120.  This seemed like a nice way to combine the old and the new.

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Sharia: Allah’s Will… Past, Present and Future

Islam is a complete civilization. It has a detailed political and legal code. That code is called the Sharia. It is an all-encompassing way of life. Sharia is the Islamic tool which takes everything about each subject and codifies it into an ordered system. What Sharia covers… Every aspect of life finds a place in Sharia. … Read more

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