by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
"The fatal conceit" is a liberal one, both in connection with the Democratic Party of the United States, which views government as a proper means of change, and would invest state power with the role of implementing change.The fallacy is liberal in the...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
In matters of pragmatism, the two issues that divide conservatives and liberals come down to these issues:Conservatives work with what works.Liberals complain and carp about what should work.Like adolescents still petulant and fussy that their idealized dreams have...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Young people forced to move from one room to another for instruction.Forced to eat a limited diet; forced to deal with distant adults barking orders.Sounds like any public school, yet I am describing an alternative setting: a juvenile court school, in Los Padrinos,...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." Vito Corleone, "The Godfather"Vito the mob boss of cinema fame, promised to do his distraught nephew a favor. He intimidated a movie producer in a very grisly fashion to give his nephew a...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Before enrolling their children in public school, parents answer three questions posed by the site administrators:1. Why do you want to attend this school?2. What do you want to gain from this experience?3. What are you interested in?Granted, education is about...
by altha-admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Articles
Curmudgeons are honest. They tell you what is on their mind, whether you mind hearing it or not.Pulling no punches, refusing to hold back on stating the obvious, they tell it like it is.That was Andy Rooney, the "last-word" correspondent on "60...
