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Toy guns aren’t weapons

I have difficulty believing anyone actually supports zero-tolerance policies and extreme political correctness anymore—anyone, that is, except government bureaucrats. By “extreme” I mean atrocities...

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Obama: More government school is the answer!

Perhaps you’ve heard that the Savior of America and his Secretary of Education are proposing rules (edicts backed with explicit threats of murder) that would add hours to the school day and days to...

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Fish in a barrel 6

For some combination of reasons, the main one probably being the coming of the Second Great Depression and the need of so many people to save money, the exorbitant price of a college degree is being...

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Great insight from John Taylor Gatto

LewRockwell.com reprinted the preface to The Underground History of American Public Education by John Taylor Gatto, and it had some quote-worthy passages: I want to open up concealed aspects of modern...

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End-of-the-month links

Amazon.com's cancellation of its plans to open a South Carolina distribution center and high-tailing it out of town because the state legislature voted against giving the company a tax exemption are...

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Guaranteed student debt guarantees the need for student debt

The ongoing Occupy movement has produced myriad versions of the “we are the 99%” lament, complaining that 99% of us have been taken advantage of and outright wronged by the richest 1% of individuals...

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Adam Davidson on Standard Motor Products

I loved this EconTalk podcast with guest Adam Davidson, who co-founded NPR's Planet Money and writes the It's the Economy column for the New York Times Magazine. The subject of the podcast was...

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Peter Gray’s worldwide “unschooling” survey

Peter Gray has written an absolutely fascinating series of articles about the alternative form of home-based education called "unschooling" and the families who practice it. Gray is a professor of...

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As Chicago teachers strike, parents turn to agorism to educate their children

The Chicago public school teachers' union strike is still ongoing, so I can only assume the agorism and community cooperation described in this article remain accurate or have even expanded: In the wee...

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NCAA admits its student-athlete "promotion" clause is not required and not...

According to an email that Sports By Brooks obtained, the clause in the NCAA student-athlete eligibility form that authorizes the NCAA to use the student-athlete's name or picture in promotional...

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