The dream of most schools, to be able to issue laptops to every student, has become a disturbing nightmare for thousands of parents and students in one of the wealthiest public school districts in the nation.
When more than 2,000 Apple MacBook laptops were distributed to the students in a Pennsylvania High School, parents were not [...]
School-Issued Laptops: Over-Reaching Arm Into Your Home Or Prying Eye Into Your Child’s Bedroom
February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Endangering Lives to Sell Newspapers
February 12, 2010 By 26 Comments
How some Israeli and American Jewish media incite violence.
Diesel’s Ad Campaign to Teens: “Show Us Your Boobs”
February 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It seems that advertising executives now think it’s totally cool to include teens in that whole “sex sells” marketing tool. Diesel Jeans has a new ad campaign running, called Be Stupid (sadly, they don’t mean it ironically) wherein they encourage people to “have balls.” Okay, “having balls”, or as grown-ups like to say, taking risks, has its [...]
What Energy Crisis? The Truth About Our Oil Reserves
December 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
One of the stories that we’ve been hearing for years now, in justification of the government’s refusal to allow any more drilling or the construction of any new refineries, is that our oil reserves are so low that they won’t last us very long if we use them.
It’s true that many people believed that in [...]
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And We Won’t Be Back ‘Till It’s Over, Over There! (Which Will Be In 2012)
December 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Run Away! Run Away!
The first twenty minutes of President Obama’s speech at West Point found me in a state of shock. His clear and forceful justification for our presence in Afghanistan, sound identification of the enemy, the Taliban and not just Al Qaida, and the declaration of his intention to commit the necessary troops to
“disrupt, [...]
