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  • Six-year-old Suspended for Bringing Cub Scout Tool to School

    By Selwyn Duke Our authorities may not be able to track down Osama bin laden, but never fear, they’re keeping us safe from budding little terrorists such as first grader Zachary Christie. Caught red-handed, the Newark, Delaware, six-year-old was suspended from his school and may face 45 days in reform school for violating the Christina…

  • More Atheist Oppression: Freedom from Religion in Georgia

    Cheerleaders in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, have been told they can no longer voluntarily display banners expressing religious sentiments. By Selwyn Duke The militant atheists are at it again, using the separation-of-church-and-state artifice to impose their values on others. This time they’re targeting high-school cheerleaders, telling them they cannot display banners bearing religious sentiments despite the…

  • Segregation Today, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever in Tucson

    By Selwyn Duke Would you hire school teachers and mete out punishment to students based on race? Some obviously would, as this is exactly what’s happening in Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) in Arizona. The district has decided that instead of choosing teachers based on the outdated concept of merit, it will hire teaching staff…

  • Nickelodeon Wants School Kids in Changing the System

    Children’s network Nickelodeon is well-known as a purveyor of propaganda, and now it’s participating in a new program that encourages kids to “change the system.” By Selwyn Duke It used to be that the stuff of children’s programming was Wile E. Coyote’s perennial hunt for the Roadrunner and Bugs Bunny playing it cavalier with the…

  • Back to School with Obama: Educational Talking Points 101

    By Selwyn Duke At high noon today, EDT, Barack Obama issued a challenge to America’s schoolchildren. In his much anticipated back-to-school speech, he appealed to students to stay in school, work hard, set goals, and not use personal crosses as an excuse to fail. It was, by and large, a message so positive that critics…

  • Obama’s Speech to the Children of America

    By Selwyn Duke Whether or not President Barack Obama’s September 8 back-to-school speech will be “historic” as his Department of Education (DOE) states, it certainly is headline grabbing. His talk is currently the talk of the nation, but thus far the only historic aspect of it is the opposition it has inspired. People are divided…

  • University Perversity: America Taking the Stupid Pill

    The only thing worse than what college students are not learning is what they are learning. By Selwyn Duke It is said that our educators are preparing the young for the future, and this may very well be true. That is, if the movie Idiocracy — which portrays a dystopian future America in which sheer…

  • School Bans Girl from Wearing Pro-life T-shirt

    By Selwyn Duke Should expressing pro-life sentiments make you a pariah behind schoolhouse doors? Well, whether it should or not, a case out of Scotland indicates that it certainly can — and does. Writing about the story at Christian Today, Jennifer Gold tells us: Read the rest here.

  • Teachers Paid to do Nothing

    By Selwyn Duke In this age of budget woes and bailouts, it may surprise some to hear that governments are paying workers to do nothing. Yet that is exactly what is happening in New York City, where hundreds of school teachers accused of misconduct — sometimes the sexual variety — are receiving upwards of $70,000…

  • Guest Piece: The Murder of Civil Life

    By Bruce Walker The putrid comments by Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie Prejean for the vice of honesty bring home just how savagely civil life has been murdered by the Left.  We no longer have a civil public life.  It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism…