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This short video is a small example of the values and priorities of Israeli parents. While Israeli children are busy bringing beauty into the world through hard work and dedicated efforts to better the world through music, art, literature, discoveries in medicine, and innovations in high tech, agriculture, and a myriad of others peaceful activities, Palestinian parents and teachers and political and religious leaders in Gaza and the West Bank and much of the rest of the Muslim world put their energies and squander their resources in giving their children lessons and textbooks teaching hate and then they strap suicide...

College professors say the darndest things. Recently, we got an e-mail that signaled that the battle for academic freedom would soon be won or, at least, negotiated to a mutually acceptable stalemate by all of the parties in the conflict, but there was a catch. “I’m a professor that doesn’t give just the conservative side of an issue, I try to expose every side of an issue,” our visitor wrote. “That’s what a liberal education really is.” So far, so good, but here’s the rub: What was odd about this declaration of principle was that it came from the Music...

The National Anthem Project Launches Today From Nation´s Capital WASHINGTON, Mar. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Anthem Project, a multi-year effort to re-teach Americans "The Star-Spangled Banner," launched today in Washington, D.C. The national education campaign is led by the National Association for Music Education (MENC). Mrs. Laura Bush serves as Honorary Chairperson. The nationwide initiative is supported by the Jeep(R) brand, the project's National Presenting Sponsor. The campaign launch comes on the heels of a recent Harris Poll that shows two out of three Americans don't know the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" and...