Blogs for 2006 - Road to the Middle Class

HE WAS A GOVERNMENT price controller, a Harvard professor, a public intellectual, a writer of best-sellers, and the face of liberal economics. He was John Kenneth Galbraith and we shall not see his like again.

In the 1950s he taught liberals how to sneer at the American middle class with his best-seller The Affluent Society. In The New Industrial State he taught how General Motors and corporations like it ran the world. In American Capitalism he advanced his ideas of the corporative state as the balance between unfold

Solzhenitzyn Can't Take US Hegemony

by Christopher Chantrill

ALTHOUGH ALEXANDER Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner of the Soviet Union and lived from many years in exile in the United States he has never been a fan of the West. Adrian Blomfield in the Washington Times reports that Solzhenitzyn feels that the US is encircling Russia. WRiting to Moscow News, he wrote

Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it whatsoever, NATO is methodically and persistently expanding its military apparatus in the unfold

Music is For Neanderthals

by Christopher Chantrill

MUSIC HAS ALWAYS had a good press. “As Plato said: “Music uses sound to educate the soul in virtue” and most educated persons have since concurred,” according to Terence Kealey.

But scientist beg to differ. Music is the language of pre-speech. It connects with the emotions, not with reason. People who are deficient in reason, like babies, stroke victims, and autistic children are the experts in music.

Leon Miller, of the University of Illinois, unfold

Saudi Jihadists Take Down Conservative Blogs

by Christopher Chantrill

THIS MORNING at about 10:00am EDT conservaive blogs across the nation suffered a Denial of Service attack originating out of Saudi Arabia.

You can see reports from Michelle Malkin, Instapundit, and Hugh Hewitt. On Hugh Hewitt they are starting out their return to service with a piece on the unfold

Economy: Roaring or Limping? You Make the Call

by Christopher Chantrill

WITH THE DEPARTMENT of Commerce expected to announce a 5.0 percent annual growth rate for the first quarter the New York Times was worried this morning. Wrote David Leonardt and Vikas Bajaj

Gas prices are rising, as are mortgage rates. House prices in many once-hot markets have started slipping. The American automobile industry shows no sign of recovery. And the paychecks of most unfold

Is Bush Exhausted or Just Resting?

by Christopher Chantrill

WHICH IS IT? Is the Bush Administration finished, exhausted? Or is the wily poker player just sitting back faking out the political opposition?

Talking with Hugh Hewitt, the indefatigable Mark Steyn, (perm), asserts that the Bush Administration won’t do anything about Iran.

I think it does seem to me exhausted. And in a strange way, a lot of the things that he's getting into trouble with over the moment, unfold

"Make Price Gouging Illegal"

by Christopher Chantrill

EVER SINCE Maria Cantwell was elected to the United States Senate from the Soviet of Washington she has kept a pretty low profile. And a good thing too, since she got elected spending her own money from Real Networks stock options that, after the NASDAQ tanked, she didn’t have. But that’s OK. Hillary Clinton helped her out.

This year she is running for reelection so she has cudgelled her brain to come up with an issue that will resonate with the voters.

What do you think would go over real good? Price gouging! Yes, that should do unfold

Jane Jacobs: Celebrating the City Street

by Christopher Chantrill

JANE JACOBS was a writer celebrated both by liberals and conservatives. She died April 25 in Toronto, aged 89. In her celebrated Death and Life of Great American Cities she punctured the confident movement of urban renewal that was bulldozing entire urban neighborhoods to cure “urban blight.” Liberals liked her because she bashed the rich. Conservatives liked her because she championed the old and the traditional.

She also belonged to that extraordinary time around 1960 when a clutch of major non-fiction books were published to unfold

Blair in a Pickle

by Christopher Chantrill

YOU THINK THAT President Bush is in a mess. Prime Minister Blair is in meltdown. This week three separate scandals hit the fan. And next week are the British local elections.

The first problem is that the National Health Service is running over budget and so hospitals are laying off doctors and nurses. It’s got so bad that Health Secretary Patricia Hewett was booed by nurses at a convention.

But that was just the light relief. The big deal is that the British prisons have been releasing foreign prison inmates and that over a unfold

Iran a Threat But Iraq Wasn't

by Christopher Chantrill

IT’S EASY TO write that now. In the left-wing Guardian Jonathan Freedland writes that:

That the Iraqi peril was a phantom, all but the pro-war diehards now concede. On the current menace posed by Iran, there is no such consensus.

Iran is a country that experts agree could have nuclear weapons in a short while.

But it is surely relevant that Iran is led by a man who cannot let a week go by without issuing an annihilationist threat unfold

Raise the Storm Signals

by Christopher Chantrill

A BIG WORRY, if you worry about big things, is this. Does the current explosion in commodity prices mean another economic blowdown like 1979-82, when the world, led by the United States and Europe, experienced “stagflation?” Are we going to see a replay of the Carter years when we had inflation and recession at the same time?

William P. Kucewicz takes a look at the numbers, and asks: is the runup in commodity prices a monetary phenomenon or a response to unfold

Why Are Bush and Cameron Going Green?

by Christopher Chantrill

PRESIDENT BUSH opened the year by confessing that America was “addicted to oil.” It was obviously no throwaway line. He has repeated it, most recently in his speech Monday on renewable fuel sources in which he said that

[T]he prices that people are paying at the gas pumps reflect our addiction to oil.

Meanwhile British Conservative Party leader David Cameron has made a point of moving the Tory Party greenwards, installing a unfold

Left Brimming with New Ideas?

by Christopher Chantrill

IF A CENTER-LEFT columnist wrote a column about the new Big Ideas that people on the left were coming up with, what would you think? That’s what E.J. Dionne just did. So what is the basis of his claim?

First of all there’s an article in The American Prospect by Michael Tomasky titled Party in Search of a Notion.

Democrats and unfold

Robert Carleson: Another Conservative That Nobody Knew

by Christopher Chantrill

EVERYONE KNOWS that Horace Mann was the father of public education. But nobody knows that Bob Carleson, who died April 21, was the father of welfare reform.

It’s odd, isn’t it? Welfare reform is probably the most successful government reform of the last half century, and yet the man who did the most to bring it about is unknown.

Government education, on the other hand...

It was in 1970 that Governor Ronald Reagan decided that he wanted to do something about soaring welfare caseloads in California. He appointed Robert B. Carleson unfold

US Economy in High Gear, Says Brit

by Christopher Chantrill

WITH THE GDP number this quarter expected to hit 5 percent the US remains the engine of the world economy. But don’t tell the MSM.

Just think, writes Gerard Baker of the London Times, if you extend that 5 percent for a year, that adds up to $600 billion added to the economy,

roughly the equivalent of adding one whole new Brazil or Australia to global economic activity every year, just from the incremental extra sweat and heave and click unfold

Celebrating Earth Day

by Christopher Chantrill

AL GORE CELEBRATED Earth Day, April 22nd, with an fearmongering screed in Vanity Fair. Watch out for the 10,000 ft chunk of ice perched on the top of Greenland, he advised. If it fell off and plunged into the ocean it could raise sea levels by 20 feet!

On the other hand, we could talk, as OpinionJournal.com does, about the amazing improvements in environmental quality since the first Earth Day in unfold

Who is al-Maliki?

by Christopher Chantrill

LAST WEEK THE squabbling politicians of Iraq settled upon a prime minister to replace the unsatisfactory al-Jaafari. And hopes are high that he can get a cabinet together in the next couple of weeks. But who is Jawad al-Maliki?

Iranian journalist Amir Taheri gives us a first look. Is he an “apparatchik” of the al-Dawa Party? Or is he a long-time freedom fighter against Saddam Hussein’s regime? More to the point, can he serve as an effective prime minister? On the unfold

The Russians are Coming -- To Royal Ascot

by Christopher Chantrill

MANY OF US, when we take time out from worrying about Iraq, have worried for years about the London social season.

With the British descending into an informal miasma of athletic gear and hoodies, who is going to keep the good old traditions going, like tea at Wimbledon and big hats at Royal Ascot?

Have no fear. The newly rich Russians that have flooded into London in recent years just love dressing up and flaunting their wealth.

And who can blame them? After 80 years of dreadful Stalinism and socialist realism who wouldn’t enjoy unfold

The Social Security Guarantee

by Christopher Chantrill

DEMOCRATS LIKE to characterize individual Social Security accounts as a “risky scheme.” Social Security, they assert, is guaranteed, while you could lose all your money in an account at Fidelity.

Hold on a minute, writes Jagadeesh Gokhale. What do you mean “guaranteed?”

Life holds no certainties. But to provide a relatively strong benefit "guarantee," Congress would have to pass a law requiring a super majority vote to alter the current benefit unfold

How Hypocritical Can You Get, Liberals?

by Christopher Chantrill

HOW LOW WILL liberals go? Who knows? Here are the news items on liberal hypocrisy, for just one day.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a high-school student could not wear a T-shirt with anti-gay slogans. But I thought that liberals believed in the First Amendment and the right of unfold

Two Nations Under 401(k)

by Christopher Chantrill

MANY SOCIAL changes do not occur in the blaze of national publicity but work their way under the radar, slowly changing society one person at a time. Such a change may be the 401(k) revolution, the rise of defined contribution pensions, or more exactly, the rise of pre-tax individual savings plans. Donald Lambro at the Washington Times celebrates their huge expansion.

The numbers are astounding and explosive: Since 1990, total worker assets in unfold

e-Stonian PM Gets Friedman Prize

by Christopher Chantrill

HE’S NO RELATION of Bert Lahr, the Cowardly Lion, and he’s certainly not lacking in courage.

He is Mart Laar, the former Prime Minister of Estonia, who set in motion the economic reforms that has doubled the GDP of Estonia in ten years. And now he is the third recipient of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty awarded by the Cato Institute.

Accordint to Marian Tupy

Mart Laar replaced the "dead hand" of the government with Adam Smith's "invisible unfold

Women Should Be Nice to Men

by Christopher Chantrill

AUTHOR CAITLIN Flanagan has written a book for the stay-at-home-mother-with-a-nanny set. It is called To Hell With All That. It’s about time, you might say. After all, we have all been assuming up to now that the nanny set were all out pursuing high-powered careers.

But Flanagan got in trouble with the feminists, so marriage advocate Maggie Gallagher decided to interview her. Flanagan is really a liberal, you see, except that

"I have one unfold

Lesson of the Duke Rape Case

by Christopher Chantrill

IN ALL THE flap over the Duke University lacrosse rape case one thing is being forgotten, writes Ann Coulter with her usual verve.

You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don't hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money.

She certainly has a point. Not only that.

You can severely reduce your chances of having someone playing the race card on you if you unfold

Next They Will Lay Off the Journalists

by Christopher Chantrill

WE ALL KNOW the agony of the layoff. We sympathize, more or less, with the grossly overpaid auto-workers and union pilots as they strike to maintain their rents. And then we are sorry when we read of 10,000 laid off at General Fishslice. But think of the coming layoffs for journalists. You haven’t thought of it? Well, Boris Johnson has. It’s all very well for unfold

President Hillary Means Same-old Same-old

by Christopher Chantrill

AFTER THE STELLAR economic growth of the last 25 years you would think that all serious presidential contenders would be talking expansively about the wonders of low tax rates and the wisdom of the market. But you would be wrong, according to Larry Kudlow. A President Hillary Clinton would take us back to the days to industrial policy and a “national investment authority.” Sounds like Old Europe. Said Hillary in Chicago:

“Tax cuts are not the cure-all unfold

Gender Gap in High School

by Christopher Chantrill

LOOKING BACK over the last half century, can we say that any liberal enthusiasm has resulted in a good outcome?

For decades liberals have been saying that girls are shortchanged in school. And they have forced us to implement programs of various kinds to discriminate in favor of girls.

But Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters beg to differ. The problem in education is not girl proficiency but sub-par performance from boys. While unfold

Germans Accuse Brit Tabloids of Bum Deal

by Christopher Chantrill

WAR HAS BROKEN out between the German and the British tabloids. And nobody can tell when it will be over.

The British Sun, famous for its Page 3 beauties, published a photo of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bum—that she had incautiously bared while changing into a bathing suit. According to Roger Boyes in the London Times, in the accompanying article

headlined “I’m big in the Bumdestag” and containing eight puns about bottoms, The unfold

Tension in Baghdad

by Christopher Chantrill

IN IRAQ BLOGGER Iraq The Model is getting cranky. He wants to see the politicians quit playing games and get a government on the ground. In his latest report Prime Minister Jafari agreed to step down and then decided no to.

The worrying thing is the deteriorating security situation in Baghdad. Writes Omar:

The security situation had been unfold

The Case for Rumsfeld

by Christopher Chantrill

NO DOUBT SECRETARY of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has an aggressive manner. No doubt he has made plenty of mistakes. No doubt he has humiliated dozens of generals. But resign?

We can understand why the MSM is parading the opponents of Secretary Rumsfeld through the chat shows. They will do anything to damage the Bush administration. It is not even conscious; it is instinctive.

We can understand the frustrations of the generals. If only Rumsfeld had followed their advice. A Wall Street Journal unfold

Brit Working Class Warms to BNP Fascists

by Christopher Chantrill

IN BRITAIN this week everyone is writing about the horrifying move of working-class Brits to the racist British National Party, or BNP. And there is a fear among the chattering classes that the BNP will make substantial gains in the local elections coming up in May. But they really cannot believe it. Writes Rachel Sylvester in the Daily Telegraph, unfold

Women and Forgiveness

by Christopher Chantrill

SINCE IT IS Easter, columnist Minette Marrin is thinking about forgiveness. And, she admits, she doesn’t get the point. After reviewing the news of the past week, including the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th 9/11 hijacker, she writes:

I could not understand the meaning of human forgiveness, at least not in extreme cases. Forgiveness may be divine but I don’t think it is human. To me it seems either pointless or meaningless.

There unfold

Seniors Like Medicare Drugs

by Christopher Chantrill

FOR MONTHS we have been hearing horror stories about the complexities of the new Medicare Part D drug program. Seniors were totally angry and confused and would likely take their revenge in November.

But now that the deadline for signup is approaching, it turns out that seniors are fairly content, writes Donald Lambro in the Washington Times.

[T]he latest Washington Post/ABC News poll found 74 percent of all seniors said they had "an easy unfold

Conservative Cool

by Christopher Chantrill

WHAT YOUNG person would be a conservative in Britain? That is the question that Nigel Farndale asks in the Daily Telegraph. The answer, unfortunately, is nobody. The problem is the David Starkey test.

Dr Starkey once said that, as a young man, he felt more embarrassed about coming out as a Conservative than he did about coming out as a homosexual.

Hmm. And that is just the half of it. unfold

Irish to Observe Easter Rising: Brits Keep Stiff Upper Lip

by Christopher Chantrill

FOR THE FIRST time since 1969 the Irish are going to observe the Easter Rising of 1916 with a military parad. They will celebrate the Easter Sunday when Irish patriots (or terrorists) rose in rebellion against the Brits and seized the General Post Office. The result was the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922 and independence from Britain for the Irish after centuries of oppression.

In the Daily Telegraph Tom Peterkin reports that unfold

Pope Walks Way of the Cross

by Christopher Chantrill

BACK IN 2003 the Slovakian government signed an agreement with the Catholic Church “to let doctors and health-care workers in Catholic hospitals decline to participate in abortions as a matter of conscience.” Let no good deed remain unpunished. This year “the EU's Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights... ruled Slovakia in violation of its EU 'obligations,'” according to Daniel Henninger. Tolerant, those Euro-secularists, aren’t they?

It is evident unfold

Meaning of the Passion

by Christopher Chantrill

WHAT IS THE meaning of Christ’s Passion? What does it mean when God sacrifices his Son to show that He loves the world? And what are we trying to say when we observe the curious events that took place on the eastern edge of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago?

In the London Times Gerard Baker reminds us of the human at the center of the Passion: St. Peter.

It is Peter who most truly compels our attention as the flawed human in the narrative: unfold

Is the Squeeze on for al Sadr?

by Christopher Chantrill

WHAT IS REALLY going on in Iraq these days? Are things really in an impasse as the Iraqis fail to come up with a new government? Or is something going on under the blanket?

Austin Bay thinks that they may be putting the squeeze on Muqtada al Sadr and his Mahdi militia. And Shia Ayatollah Sistani may be at the center of it.

Wishful thinking? Who knows? But let us give the Iraqis credit for being more than just American stooges. After all, the translation of “national unfold

Fighting Against Economic Reality

by Christopher Chantrill

AT BANKRUPT Delta Air Lines union pilots who earn an average of about $150,000 a year are resisting 18 percent wage cuts to keep the airline flying. In France students riot in the street to protest the idea of postponing for two years the French guarantee of lifetime employment. In Italy Prime Minister Berlesconi is voted out of office (just) after failing to pass legislation in his five year period in office that would make Italy’s labor market for flexible and Italy more competitive. And, let us not forget the German electorate that unfold

Enough of the Self-Servers on Iraq

by Christopher Chantrill

SHOULD WE HAVE sent more troops to Iraq? Did Defense Secretary Rumsfeld criminally omit to plan for the Iraq occupation? Right now, observes Victor Davis Hanson there is a plague of retired senior officers plugging books on TV. And they

offer sharp interviews about our supposed strategic and operational blunders in Iraq — imperial hubris, too few troops, wrong war, wrong place, and other assorted lapses.

Imagine if we had talking heads unfold

New Hope for Malaria Sufferers

by Christopher Chantrill

I KNOW. IT’S rather bad form to equate the tragedy of malaria with the tragedy of psoriasis. But there really is good news on the malaria front. Only there’s a minor problem.

First the good news. Scientists have found a way to synthethize artemisinic acid, a precursor to artemisinin, “the most effective therapy for the world’s second-most deadly infectious disease.” The problem is that the process uses genetically modified yeast or bacteria. And we all know how dangerous that can be.

It’s estimated that the new method will reduce unfold

Employers Hiring Older Workers in Britain

by Christopher Chantrill

IN BRITAIN, older workers are rushing into the work force. According to Allister Heath in the London Spectator, “pensioners accounted for 85 per cent of the employment growth in Britain during” the last six months. A full 60,000 of them went back to work.

Why are they going back to work? Who knows? For some it is a choice, and for others it is probably from necessity. Real-estate taxes have been going up pretty sharply in Britain due to escalating home prices.

But unfold

Dem Vote 43.9% in CA 50 Special Election

by Christopher Chantrill

HOW MUCH TROUBLE are Republicans in for this Fall? Maybe not as bad as some have feared. In the special election to fill disgraced Republican Congressman Randy Cunningham’s seat the Democrat came in with only 8 percent more votes than in the general election in 2004. That means that the election will go to a runoff in June. Writes political scientist unfold

The Iran Cloud Gets Bigger

by Christopher Chantrill

A SOMBER MARK Steyn writes about the Iran business, and wonders about what lies ahead as Iran acquires nuclear weapons and the west does nothing. In an article in City Journal he thinks about Facing Down Iran.

For this to be a mortal struggle, as the cold war was, the question is: Are they a credible enemy to us?
For a projection of the likely outcome, the question is: Are we a credible enemy to them?

The problem really is, as it was in the 1930s, unfold

Romney's Health Care Solution

by Christopher Chantrill

FIRST GOVERNOR Romney put up his education proposals in the Wall Street Journal. Now he has done the same for health care.

Actually he has written an article describing the universal health care program recently enacted in Massachusetts.

It all started when Romney talked to Tom Stemberg, founder of Staples, who told him to figure out how to do health insurance. When Mitt objected, Tom said: “You can find a way.”

So Mitt set to work, and found unfold

How Will Immigration Issue Break?

by Christopher Chantrill

ON MONDAY APRIL 10th, the streets of America were again filled with demonstrators demanding U.S. citizenship for illegal immigrants. The battle of immigration continues.

There are two questions here. How will the demonstrations affect the fate of immigration bills now in Congress, and what will be the political effect down the road?

Democrats are encouraged by the demonstrations. Writes Charles Hurt in the Washington Times,

Democrats on unfold

Romney's Six Point Education Plan

by Christopher Chantrill

THEY SAY THAT Bill Clinton’s great success in the presidency was that he acted like a governor. After the failure of tax increases and Hillarycare in his first two years he focused on close-to-home issues like midnight basketball and 100,000 cops that are the sort of issue that you expect city mayors and state governors to deal in. Still, it probably helped him win the soccer-mom vote.

George W. Bush did the same thing, campaigning for No Child Left Behind, and passing a pale shadow of his plan once elected.

Now comes presidential unfold

The End of Health Care As We Know It

by Christopher Chantrill

IT HAD TO HAPPEN. Writer gets funny lump in his jaw. Writer gets brush-off from doctor. Writer checks up on Google and self-operates to remove stone from salivary duct.

Are you sweating yet, you priests and pharisees from the health priesthood? Have you paid off the mortgage on the McMansion and the starter castle yet? Better get a move on!

It’s a delightful story, told by Sean Thomas in the unfold

Global Warming Stuck on Pause

by Christopher Chantrill

JUST WHEN IT looked like we were all going to fry in the oven of global warming comes a scientist to say that global temperatures have stopped climbing.

Since 1998 global temperatures have actually dropped a tad, according to climate scientist Bob Carter in the Daily Telegraph. What of that, you say? Temperatures increased in the 28 years previous to 1998.

That’s very true. But then there was unfold

Da Vinci Code Unbroken

by Christopher Chantrill

WHAT A RELIEF. A high court judge in Britain has determined that Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code did not infringe the copyright of the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. So now the legal cloud is lifted from the movie.

But do we know the real truth behind the Da Vinci Mystery? For instance, isn’t it odd that both books were published by Random House? Isn’t it strange that the mysterious expert in DVC, Sir Leigh Teabing, is an anagram of Baigent and Leigh? Isn’t it a little unfold

Blacks Voting for School Choice With Their Feet

by Christopher Chantrill

YEAR BY YEAR the education establishment gets bigger and bigger. Year by year the kids seem to learn less and less. And everyone seems to shrug their shoulders as though nothing can be done.

At least people are writing books. Henry T. Edmondson III has written an attack on John Dewey and progressive education in John Dewey & the Decline of American Education: How the Patron Saint of Schools Has Corrupted unfold

How Do They Treat the Help?

by Christopher Chantrill

ONE OF THE important tests of character is: How does he treat the help? When Scoop Jackson, longtime senator from Washington, died, we suddenly learned how all the staff in the Senate dining room adored him. We had no idea.

The Clintons, we learned, were not liked by the White House staff. And the report on Katie Couric is that people dive for their offices when they hear her heels clicking down the hall.

Why bother to treat the help with respect? As usual, Agatha Christie has the reason. When a friend of young Agatha dissed a unfold

The Angry Left Asks Bush If He's Ashamed

by Christopher Chantrill

IT’S GOOD THAT lefty Harry Taylor got a chance to ask President Bush about the NSA surveillance program. Lefties ought to get a chance to question the president. Often. According to the Associated Press he got to

tell Bush that he's never felt more ashamed of the leadership of his country. He said Bush has asserted his right to tap phone calls without a warrant, to arrest people and hold them without charges and to revoke a woman's unfold

A Radical Architect, Classical

by Christopher Chantrill

PHILOSOPHER Roger Scruton used to be Britain’s one and only conservative. Until he gave up and came to live in the United States. But he is not so Americanized that he does not know the protectors of the permanent things in England. Like architect Quinlan Terry.

Terry is a radical architect. That is, he rejects the modernist terrorism and the postmodernist irony and designs in the classic tradition. Thus the book about his work, unfold

Girl, 14, Drives Drunk; Parents Disabled

by Christopher Chantrill

THE BRITS HAVE been enjoying the spectacle of the family from hell, the Blacks, whose daughter Leighanne got arrested and then convicted for driving under the influence without a license. What’s the fuss, you ask? Leighanne is only 14, and this is her second driving offense.

The fair Leighanne is a bit young for driving and drinking, it’s true. But that is not why she became famous.

She got famous because of the forcible manner in which she expressed exception to her sentence: she shouted abuse at the magistrates and then unfold

John Stossel and the Teachers, contd.

by Christopher Chantrill

REMEMBER JOHN Stossel and his ABC-TV documentary, “Stupid in America?” Remember how the teachers union demonstrated in front of ABC, chanting “Shame on You?” And remember how they invited John Stossel to teach at a public school so that he could find out what it was really like teaching kids?

And remember how John Stossel agreed to take the teachers union up on their offer?

A funny thing happened on the way to the classroom, writes John Stossel.

First of all, the unfold

Global Warming, Global Cooling, Natch

by Christopher Chantrill

CONSERVATIVES love to recall how Newsweek heralded a new ice age back in 1975 just as the current warming trend was getting under way. Now the Washington Times has actually printed on line the article from thirty years ago, The Cooling World by Peter Gwynne.

There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production... The drop in food unfold

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