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Giving Together: Turning Tax Season into Opportunities for Students
On a spring morning in Kalispell, a group of elementary students huddle around a table, testing a small robot they…
Anarchy and experience: Can people still learn from their mistakes?
Anarchy is a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
One percent logic; 99 percent bull
The Occupy Wall Street movement has been aptly described as “Anarchists for Totalitarianism.”
Are you really for revolution?
“This is WHAT democracy looks like,” chanted about 1,000 protesters as they plotted their Occupy Philadelphia strategy a couple of weeks ago.
Are the conditions ready for revolution?
So at last we have come full circle. The revolution that started on the streets four decades ago, then went underground, has returned to the streets once again.
Why care about Ayers?
Some people say that writing a series of columns about 1960s revolutionaries is a waste of time. They say that radicals like Bill Ayers weren’t that popular to begin with and are completely irrelevant by now.
North, to Alaska, but how?
My oldest daughter, Heather, just accepted a job as a television reporter and photographer in Anchorage, Alaska. It’s a great opportunity for her, but the logistics of moving from her humble apartment in Eugene, Or…
Recipe for disaster: Ayers, Alinsky, Cloward & Piven
When last we left the revolutionary Bill Ayers, he was furiously scribbling the "Weatherman" manifesto in 1969 and learning how to build nail bombs while actively encouraging not just one, but "two, three, many Vie…
Celebrate the Constitution
You can’t blame the decline in American patriotism over the past 50 years on any one thing or any one person — but you can look at individual people and individual agendas and see plainly that there are enemies of …
'How did we get here?' Finally, here's the answer
Lots of people resist the notion that the horrible things that have gone wrong in the United States could possibly have been the outcome of a planned rebellion.
Covering 9/11 took severe emotional toll
It started as a day like any other.
Is American decline the product of chance or of design?
Look around and ask yourself if the United States of America is growing stronger or weaker.
New Mindset List makes me feel old
One of my esteemed colleagues shared an interesting bit of information the other day when he alerted me about the newly released Mindset List at Beloit College, a private school in southeastern Wisconsin.
Revolution went from violent overthrow to co-opting the system
Does any legitimate authority really think that communists targeted the U.S. public education system as a means to transform the American character from rugged individualism to comfortable socialism?
The revolution you may not even know happened
Revolutionaries, by the very nature of their task, face a peculiar challenge that creates inherent risk in their enterprise, and thus necessitates that they be ready to change tactics frequently.
Eastside oil boom evokes deja vu
Question: Where do you go to get a hotel continental breakfast that starts at 4 a.m. and a single-serving size box of animal crackers costs $2.89 at the quick stop?