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America is engaged in education worship. When anything is made an end in itself it becomes a false god. All things must be a means to achieving goodness. Why else should people exist? Sometimes we lack wisdom or perhaps we lose perspective. Today we seem to be doing that with education.
2020 is shaping up to be a hard lesson for the political elites. If the Bernie Juggernaut keeps this momentum the candidates of choice will both be non-establishment outsiders. The Democrats, of course, will do all in their power to keep Bernie off their ticket. But what does that look like?
Who is winning in Trump’s economy? In his State of the Union address the President rolled out an eye-catching statistic. He said the wealth held by the poorest half of American households increased three times as fast as the wealth held by the “1%” under his administration. Wealth means net worth. This is true according …
The Iowa caucuses crash-and-burn in a dramatic example of Democrat Party leadership and capacity. The Iowa State Democratic Party was slow-releasing results Monday night but at least they were inaccurate. No one seems to have a handle on what happened.
To make things easier big-government Democrats made the Iowa Caucus harder. And then they screwed that up. Yes, the Iowa Caucus debacle is the new poster child for planned rule. Experts who know nothing executing a convoluted system designed to fail.
It is coming time for us to choose between pleasant lies or painful truth. Do federal policymakers really know how to improve productivity in the American economy? The answer seems to be NO. Education is a large sector of the American economy. If educational results are an indication, the answer is definitely in the negative.
Socialism is being marketed to young people as kind, selfless, and community-focused. Like most marketing, that is not really true. It is an ideology of promises. Its performance is far different than its marketing.
Recently Mick Zais, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education, visited Concord to deliver an assessment. Here are some excerpts from the address he delivered.
Are we heading toward Civil War? The American Civil War was brutal. In its wake over 620,000 Americans were left dead. The population then was about 31.4 million people, which means about one person in 50 died in the Civil War. That means about 2% of the U.S. population met their death. An equivalent war …
Can a society be free if its economy is not free? My assertion to you is America can do better. In order for that to happen, we must understand what is wrong. We need to want to understand where we went wrong. We need to agree on how we can best adjust to remedy the …
