Please contact Mercersburg Academy, a coed boarding high school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania; this Monday, December 12, Islamic supremacist Reza Aslan is delivering the "Schaff Lecture on Ethics and Morals" -- a unfortunate choice, given the intellectually dishonest and deceptive Aslan's demonstrably unethical behavior over the years.

New Online Tool for Consumers 

Washington, DC, December 6, 2011—The Tax Foundation has created a new online calculator for tracking the tax burden created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. The coverage provisions in the health care bill cost $788 billion in new spending over the next decade. This is paid for $511 billion in cuts elsewhere, as well as $420 billion in new taxes. This calculator shows how the new taxes will affect American households and explains how they work.

Thanks to the Institute for Justice, those suffering from leukemia and various other ailments that require them to wait for a bone marrow match to miraculously appear have new hope. Yesterday’s unanimous opinion by the Ninth Circuit in Flynn v. Holder effectively deregulates the bone-marrow market—and may even encourage lawmakers to rethink the disastrous federal prohibition on compensating organ donors.  (I previously wrote about the casehere and here, and you can watch Cato’s forum on it here.)

Despite Union Lawsuit Claiming Harm to Public Schools, School Choice Already Widespread Across Indiana  

Arlington, Va.—A new report released today demonstrates that school choice—including choice involving religious school options for parents and students—is well-established across Indiana. According to the report, “Opening the Schoolhouse Doors: Indiana’s Choice Scholarship Program Extends Long History Of Choice-Based Aid,” Indiana offers ten voucher-style programs that allow students to attend private religious and private nonreligious schools.

I have posted several articles on the very fast moving agenda in our schools that will cause terrible harm to our children.  The homosexual agenda could destroy the moral fabric of our country as they target children, since that is where our future lies. Have you checked your local school's curriculum and textbooks? California's news law and our own government's initiative is on the move to indoctrinate our children into the homosexual agenda.

Asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied: “Because that’s where the money is!” 

Similarly, if asked why they dumb down the schools, our top education officials would have to reply, if they are honest: “Because that’s where the kids are!”

Years ago, John Dewey introduced a counterintuitive idea, that schools are not for schooling--that is, teaching, learning, thinking, all that scholarly stuff.