Stories from Saturday, January 28, 2012

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- War, said James Madison, is "the true nurse of executive aggrandizement." Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, "War is the health of the state." Hence Barack Obama's State of the Union hymn: Onward civilian soldiers, marching as to war...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" -- written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. -- blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. Education professors drum into students that they should not "drill and kill" or be the "sage on the stage" but instead be the "guide on the side" who "facilitates student discovery." This kind of harebrained thinking, coupled with multicultural nonsense, explains today's education. ...

Vets could help animal shelters My concern is --I just seen the article in the DAR on animal rescue -- it seems the vets in these areas make enough off of everybody else that they could take and spend a little of their time and their money to help out shelters like the one in the paper today...

By GEORGE F. WILL WASHINGTON -- War, said James Madison, is "the true nurse of executive aggrandizement." Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned, "War is the health of the state." Hence Barack Obama's State of the Union hymn: Onward civilian soldiers, marching as to war...

Vets could help animal shelters My concern is --I just seen the article in the DAR on animal rescue -- it seems the vets in these areas make enough off of everybody else that they could take and spend a little of their time and their money to help out shelters like the one in the paper today...