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Okay, America, listen up! This is your Education Establishment speaking. You may take notes. In any case, you’re free to obey these instructions. Whatever you may think, whatever foolish misconceptions you may have acquired, your children do not belong to you. They belong to us. We will love and cherish them to the extent that we can turn them into what we want them to be. Your job is to remain on the sidelines and say nothing. Now, be good parents and keep out of things you don’t comprehend. Preparing the young for their future roles in our complex society...

Those who have read Ann Coulter's latest column on Strauss-Kahn, may see it as her usual political satire, but she is deadly serious. She mentions the little known fact that Karl Marx, whom the left regards as the champion of the oppressed, was a slaveholder. According to Coulter: "Karl Marx kept a female slave from the time she was 8 years old, eventually using her not only as a servant but as his mistress, never acknowledging his child with her or paying her at all. She waited on him hand and foot while he explained to the world that profit...

On December 5, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau asked Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Tejada to vacate the convictions of five men in the 1989 Central Park Jogger attack, as well as for attacks on other victims the same night. Defendants Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Kharey Wise have all completed their prison sentences. On December 19, Tejada granted Morgenthau his wish. The men were convicted variously of rape, sexual assault, attempted murder, and riot in the first degree. They were part of a group of as many as forty predominantly black teenagers (the others were...