The great irony in the Obama administration's latest expansion of entitlements, its massive commitment to health care, is that it has created one that most Americans don't want. Poll after poll demonstrate that most Americans oppose the Democrats' radical change to the U.S.
When I first began to study the history of slavery around the world, many years ago, one of the oddities that puzzled me was the practice of paying certain slaves, which existed in ancient Rome and in America's antebellum South, among other places.
New York’s governor, David Paterson, has taken a lot of heat lately, but he certainly deserves an accolade for having a Board of Regents that appointed David Steiner as the state’s chief educator.
Over at Investor’s Business Daily’s Web site, an interesting piece by Raghavan Mayur discussing how the dynamics driving the midterm election generally tilt Republican.
It’s easy to ridicule “interactive whiteboards” and the schools that are rushing to buy them. Choose your analogy: it’s like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, perfecting VHS in a Blu-ray world, or lemmings jumping over a cliff.
A major battle between two barons of the Senate pits Banking Committee chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) against minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kty.).
There is a delicious irony in the Center for American Progress choosing Tax Day, April 15, 2010, to publish its new defense of the progressive intellectual tradition in the U.S.
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