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THE DEMOCRATIC DIALOG ODE TO THE WELFARE STATE a 1949 poem Father, Must I go to work? No, my lucky son. We’re living now on East Street. On dough from Washington. We’ve left it up to Uncle Sam So don’t get exercised. Nobody has to give a damn – We’ve all been subsidized. But if Sam treats us all so well And feeds us milk and honey, Please, daddy tell me what the hell He’s going to use for money. Don’t worry, bub, there’s not a hitch In this here noble plan – He simply soaks the filthy rich And...

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”. ennui [ahn-wee, ahn-wee; French ahn-nwee] noun: 1. a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: Example: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui. Word Origin: Mid 18th century: French, from Latin mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me.’ Compare with annoy. Synonyms for ennui noun boredom apathy languor melancholy sadness tedium weariness blahs blues dejection depression dissatisfaction doldrums dumps fatigue lassitude listlessness satiety spiritlessness surfeit...

Earth Compared To The Rest Of The Universe - Amazing Graphic Presentation This is the best video of this type of thing I have seen.- will blow your mind!! Best to enlarge full screen and play at slower speed from the right bottom. https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Eh5BpSnBBw

OK everyone. Trump is our president. He's now about 10% done with his first term. How has he done thus far, in your view?

Monsanto’s legal woes continue to mount as two separate state-level decisions against the agrochemical company’s products were announced this past week. In a first for the U.S., California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) reported on June 26 that it will require Monsanto’s popular weed killer product Roundup to have a label warning stating it contains a known carcinogenic. Beginning July 7, 2017, Roundup’s primary ingredient glyphosate will be added to California’s Proposition 65, a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects and other reproductive damage. Monsanto and other companies that produce glyphosate-based products in the state...

I’m on the road, traveling out West, doing a little hiking, a little sightseeing, a lot of thinking. I just sat down with my laptop and a cup of coffee under the blue skies of Wyoming, thinking about how much I will learn in these 4½ weeks. That’s the same chunk of the school calendar reflected on our students’ progress reports. Just over four weeks — about 23 days, almost a month.(snip) One of the first questions people on the road ask is about your occupation. That’s always an easy ice-breaker. I reckon I don’t yet look retirement age, so...

To gain admittance to college in the 17th century, students had to be able to read and translate various Latin authors on sight. 100 years ago, students were required to have read various classical works before being admitted. Today, however, many American students are being admitted to colleges without ever having read a book from start to finish. They are part of a cohort of students known as “book virgins.” The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has pointed out this phenomenon in their recent report titled “Beach Books: 2014-2016. What Do Colleges and Universities Want Students to Read Outside Class?”...

Twenty-one years ago, Jennifer McCullough was a high school student facing an unexpected pregnancy who turned to the Pregnancy Resource Center of Gwinnett (Ga.),for help. That experience with the center made such a profound effect on McCullough’s life that, three years ago, she started volunteering with the organization’s abstinence-centered IMPACT sex and relationship education program. McCullough, who took over as the program’s director March 15 of this year, now finds herself at the center of a maelstrom, following allegations from two women who are working together to oust IMPACT and replace it with a contraception-heavy program started by feminist icon...

PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Delaware is cutting ties with a professor over comments she reportedly made on social media about Otto Warmbier, CBS Philadelphia reports. The university announced the adjunct anthropology faculty member, Katherine Dettwyler, would not be rehired to teach in the future. She had last taught a course in the spring. In a written statement, school officials said: "The comments of Katherine Dettwyler do not reflect the values or position of the University of Delaware. We condemn any and all messages that endorse hatred and convey insensitivity toward a tragic event such as the one that Otto...

Hispanics and Blacks in this rural area do not put their children in car seats and law enforcement does little or nothing about it. When they have a wreck, the result is awful. Wonder if anyone else has made this observation in other parts of the country?

We invite movie lovers and online learners from around the world to join us for a free, flexible online course, TCM Presents The Master of Suspense: 50 Years of Hitchcock (#Hitchcock50). This is the third free online course to be offered by TCM and Ball State, following Film Noir (2015) and Slapstick Comedy (2016). In this Hitchcock course, enjoy multimedia course materials, daily in-app messaging with movie clips, mini-games, and ongoing interactions with fellow film fans on the TCM message boards or at #Hitchcock50. We will explore 40+ Hitchcock films from his first film in the silent era, The Lodger...

It’s a tough test — but not so tough to pass. New York high-schoolers who took the Regents Common Core Algebra I exam this month had to earn just 27 of 86 points, or 31.4 percent, to pass. On the Regents grading scale, that gives them a minimum passing score of 65.

Why Teachers Drink The following questions were set in last year's GED examination. These are genuine answers (from 18 year olds) Q. Name the four seasons? A.. Salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar Q. How is dew formed? A.. The sun shines down on the leaves and makes them perspire Q. What guarantees may a mortgage company insist on? A.. If you are buying a house they will insist that you are well endowed Q. In a democratic society, how important are elections? A.. Very important. Sex can only happen when a male gets an election Q. What are steroids? A....

This is the long overdue study of the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxist philosophy which now controls Western intellectualism, politics, and culture. It was by design; it was created by an internationalist intelligentsia to eradicate Western values, social systems, and European racial groups in a pre-emptive attempt to spark global, communist (think liberal) revolution. Andrew Breitbart's historical notes are taken into the narrative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM

READING, Pennsylvania, June 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Massive outcry from pro-life students and activists caused a Pennsylvania school board to pull a proposal for the establishment of a Planned Parenthood-run "sexual health counseling center" inside a high school. However, the fight isn't over. The board will likely debate the proposal at another time and vote on it in August. The pro-abortion group AccessMatters suggested the creation of a "sexual health counseling center" inside Reading High School and run by Planned Parenthood. This center would focus "primarily [on] counseling services and condoms," according to the Reading Eagle, and "Planned Parenthood Keystone...

London, June 5, 2017. A minute of silence is held at Potters Field Park, next to the City Hall, to pay tribute to the victims of the London Bridge jihadist attack three days before. Those who came have brought flowers, candles and signs bearing the usual words: "unity", "peace" and "love". Faces are sad but no trace of anger is visible. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, gives a speech emphasizing against all evidence that the killers' ideas have nothing to do with Islam. A few hours after the attack, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May also refuses to...

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense...

Around 1 percent of female adolescents have anorexia. Think about that… one out of every one hundred young women are starving themselves, sometimes to death! Should we celebrate these poor young women and help further their mental issues by agreeing they are fat and need to lose weight? Should we assist them in their various methods of self-destruction? Should we have our public schools celebrate, embrace, and reinforce their mental disorder? Perhaps install fun-house type mirrors which add weight to their reflections to help them connect with their perceived body condition? I think most would agree these would be ghoulish...

A teacher at a public high school in Alabama sent his students home with a summer reading list chock full of conservative authors from which to choose, including Ann Coulter, Ronald Reagan, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and libertarian John Stossel. But parents became concerned that it leaned too far right and so now, the kids don’t have to read anything over the summer.

President Trump is making school lunches great again, or at least a lot better than they were during the Obama administration. Food service directors are applauding recent changes to federal school food regulations imposed on schools as part of Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity. […] Regulations imposed through the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act put strict limitations on calories, fat, sugar, salt, and other elements of foods served in public schools that participate in the national school lunch or breakfast programs. …