April 30, 2008
 By Marie Jon'
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." — Voltaire
We can reason and rationalize just about anything, including our lack of exercise and bad eating habits. We rationalize insensitivity to others' feelings because we live in a world that has become coarse and crude. Are we reasonable? Are we rational? How often does an alcoholic rationalize: "I can have one drink?"
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April 29, 2008
By Nancy Salvato
“Textbooks today are trapped in an ideological straitjacket that, in contrast to the surrounding popular culture, restricts content and sterilizes social realities.” – The Mad, Mad World of Textbook Adoption
I’ve always enjoyed learning about history. When I look back on my history classes, it wasn’t because I was interested in reading the textbooks, it was the teacher who made history come alive, by inserting anecdotes that made it “real,” showing footage of actual events, or by connecting what happened in the past to the present.
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By John W. Whitehead
April 28, 2008
 “The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of freely communicating thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”— James Madison
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April 27, 2008
by Jim Kouri, CPP
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people."
- Karl Marx
German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883)
Oak Lawn, Illinois, school kids are going to have to do without Halloween, Christmas and Easter activities thanks to the sensitive bureaucrats who fear offending Muslims.
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by John W. Whitehead
April 21, 2008
According to the New Jersey ACLU legal director, Marcus Borden has fostered a "destructive environment" for students. What did Borden, a high school football coach in East Brunswick, N.J., and a recipient of the national Caring Coach of the Year award, do to create such a "destructive" environment?
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