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It is beyond comprehension that in the wake of 1.5 million Americans losing their jobs last year, there still is talk in Congress about bringing in even more foreign workers to compete in a rapidly shrinking job market.
Throughout Asia and the Middle East, sons are valued, while daughters are often unwanted. Baby girls may be killed, thrown in the trash (as commonly occurs in China) or aborted as a result of prenatal scanning -- a medical technology that was developed to improve the health of mother and child.
In today's Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove has an op-ed saying "President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and Fred." It's true that liberal Democrats had been leading the war against "redlining" for years before Bush took over, and that to the extent that Bush is to blame, it's because he was acting (on the advice of Karl Rove) like a liberal Democrat.
In C. S. Lewis's Narnia novel The Horse And His Boy a young boy named Shasta is washed up on the beach in Calormen, an imaginary country that shares many semi-barbaric features with Arabia. Shasta, a fair-haired Narnian, is adopted by a fisherman named Arshish, who beats him, doesn't feed him much, and makes him work.
The federal government runs a number of gigantic multi-decade human sciences studies of Americans, with the best known being the 1979 National Longitudinal Study of Youth, which was featured prominently in The Bell Curve in 1994, but is still going on, with IQ scores now available on thousands of the children of the original sample.
Because of technical difficulties, Joe Guzzardi did not appear on the Rocky-D Show yesterday. He is rescheduled today, Thursday, at 12:30 p.m, EST. The show airs in Charleston, SC and can be listened to here.
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01/07/09 - A CA Teacher Says It's Time Schools Were Honest About What They Can—And Cannot—Achieve
From:
John Carbine (e-mail
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