Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Defeating their own arguments
Saturday, May 10th, 2008I'm surprised I haven't blagged about any of the posts on one of my new favorite libertarian sites, Rad Geek People's Daily, Charles Johnson's blag. He wrote a long and entertaining post about three rural-Minnesota 8th-graders who were suspended for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance. My favorite part of ...
Girl suspended for not pledging to the flag
Saturday, April 26th, 2008I give fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz a hard time on this website, but he introduced me to (what he referred to as) libertarianism, and it led to my adoption of pure libertarianism, so I should give him a little more recognition. He has several solid ...
Put your imagination to a useful end
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it. —Frédéric Bastiat I wish Statists would apply their vivid and active imaginations to the moral, psychological, and economic benefits that we would reap if we lived in free societies, instead of to their tired, ...
California criminalizes home-schooling
Monday, March 10th, 2008I keep telling you, it IS happening here. Charles Johnson has some excellent commentary, as usual, on this.
Drugging unruly children is a method of social control
Friday, February 1st, 2008A letter to the editor of Nature this week strongly objected to the widespread and involuntary administration of Ritalin to children, and to a recent claim, published in Nature, that ADHD is heritable and very prevalent. Sir Sahakian and Morein-Zamir's reference to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as heritable and affecting 4–10% of ...
The testimony of Kevin Padian in Kitzmiller v. Dover
Monday, January 14th, 2008This is easily the most thorough presentation of paleontological evidence for evolution by natural selection and the most damning collection of evidence against intelligent design that I have ever encountered. I would, in fact, go so far as to describe it as beautiful. Two shortcomings of this biology lesson, however, ...