Educational Fraud Continues
Written by Walter E. Williams
Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka The Nation's Report Card, was released. It's not a pretty story. Only 37 percent of 12th-graders tested proficient or better in reading, and only 25 percent did so in math. Among black students, only 17 percent tested proficient or better in reading, and just 7 percent reached at least a proficient level in math.
How long can this country, with its shrinking share of global GDP, sustain its expanding commitments to confront and fight all over the world?
The very institutions that republics so painstakingly maintain to maximize the liberty of their citizens and the stability of their body politic are susceptible to perversion into instruments of tyranny.
We have neither the money nor the authority to launch bombs when we suspect someone has done something wrong overseas.
The democracy worshippers of the West cannot compete with the authoritarians in meeting the crisis of our time because they do not see what is happening to the West as a crisis.
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Judicial Appointments
Written by John F. McManus
There are approximately 150 federal district and appeals court vacancies in the nation, and they aren't being filled very quickly.
If you think internet companies aren't paying any taxes for online sales and that's killing bricks-and-mortar retailers and states' budgets, you, my friend, have been duped.
A Mayor's Most Important Job
Written by Walter E. Williams
Big cities can be revitalized, but it's going to take mayors with guts to do what's necessary to reverse accumulative decay.
The War Party that Trump routed in the primaries is capturing and crafting his foreign policy.
Trump’s Disastrous Syria Attack
Written by Ron Paul
Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, “Mission Accomplished!” They say if you cannot learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. So I guess we are repeating it.
Emotions should not be allowed to overrule what the president has thought and expressed many times: While the outcome of Syria's civil war may mean everything to Assad, and much to Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Israel, it means comparatively little to a USA 5,000 miles away.