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California dreamin’?
September 23, 2002, marked a historic day in California legislative history: California Governor Gray Davis signed into law the California Family Rights Acts of 2002 (CFRA). This act, pursued vigorously by women’s groups and labor unions, provides workers who take off work to care for a new child or a sick family member, up to 55 percent of their salary for six weeks.Educational choice? Not according to Congress
The NEA and other educational elites, are using diversionary arguments against Educational Savings Accounts to distract from the real goal: limiting parental choice and control in their children’s educationGreen politics gets personal
Bishops need the expert advice of qualified laity on intricate matters of public policy.Kenya: Power politics as usual
The latest power grab by President Moi continues the tragic power politics of this East African nation.The lawless leadership of Zimbabwe
As the situation in the African nation of Zimbabwe continues to worsen under the corrupt regime of Robert Mugabe, there is a need for efforts at racial and economic reconciliation.Sustainable development - Is it sustainable?
The models employed by those arguing for the sustainable development project contain serious anthropological errors, assuming nothing new is created or invented by human activity.Harvard's Civil Rights Project misses the mark
Public schools are segregated in fact because Americans, by and large, choose freely to live in segregated communities – not because they have to but because they want to. Do African Americans and Latinos need to be around white students in order to learn and perform well?Private schools work: Less can mean more
For many students in failed schools, the only answers the public school lobby offers for their failure are blame and a demand for increased funding as a panacea for all problems.Bigotry: A threat to parental choice
Restrictions to stop state funding from going to religious schools are based on an anti-religious bigotry over a century old.Recovering the vocation of business
Do modern day business people see their work as a vocation of service and a way to unity with God?Social Security has its own accounting problems
While the scandals associated with the apparent cases of fraudulent accounting schemes at Enron and WorldCom are serious, they pale in comparison to the current fraudulent accounting schemes employed by the United States government in connection with the Social Security system.NEA above the law?
Do teachers around the nation know where their union dues are going? Most often they do not when it comes to their membership in the National Education Association (NEA.