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Build Back Better is the next step in the increasing institutionalization of small children.The massive and historic entitlement-and-spending bill, Build Back Better (H.R. 5376), includes the “largest expansion” of government education since public high schools were established by the states more than “100 years ago,” according to President Biden. The bill was passed by the House at the end of November and is now the intense focus of the Democrat Senate and the Biden administration for passage before Christmas. Under the proposed legislation, the federal government would expand and then regulate not just public education but a good portion of...

DENSITY OF NON-PROFITS, CITY SPENDING HAS NO BEARING ON QUALITY OF LIFE IN PASADENA Exploratory Quality of Life Index Study 2008 – Pasadena Sub Rosa Website Last month CNN/Money Magazine released a perfunctory rating of the Top 10 Cities in San Gabriel Valley, which indicated that the City of Walnut had the highest quality of life. Pasadena was ranked 18th out of 25 cities in San Gabriel Valley. But the City of Walnut is a bedroom community with a population of about 30,000 mostly upper middle class residents. To correct the deficiencies of CNN/Money Magazines flawed apples-to-oranges comparison study, this...

There are two aspects to Hillary’s book deal that need examination. The obvious one is the clear conflict of interest that the deal involves, not that such niceties ever cut any ice with the Clintons and their rabid supporters, particularly in the media. The second one is a historical perspective that exposes not merely the Democratic Party’s double standards but its inherent viciousness, a fact the recent election vividly illustrated. But first, Hillary’s remarkable windfall. To recover its $8 million dollar investment in Hillary publisher Simon & Schuster would have to sell more than 3 million hardback copies. That would...