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City Journal has a great piece about educating and raising inner city children. The article starts with Bill Cosby's rants against black parents for failing their children. It then explores the trillions of dollars that have been wasted in efforts to provide better education for inner city children

And to think we've been frowning on higher education: > The 2005 SpringFest, a controversial [University of North Dakota] student bash held every year in University Park, was very similar to last year's celebration, as Grand Forks Police issued just as many citations. > But homeowners

We had occasion to revisit the Southern Essays of Richard Weaver recently. We found many gems, including these from his essay, "Lee the Philosopher": > It is fatuous to say, as is being said now, that all men want peace. Men want peace part of the time, and

> A secret organisation headed by a retired family doctor is illegally providing terminally ill British people with thousands of pounds to enable them to travel to a Swiss suicide clinic. Link to The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/08/neuth08.xml&

For those who missed it, the Canadian battle against free speech and freedom of religious belief finally hit the big time: a bishop has been sued in Canada's notorious human rights commission. Why? He wrote in a pastoral letter, "Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution, and pornography undermine the

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit wants Detroit voters to approve a two-percent fast-food tax. Critics of the plan say the tax would unfairly burden the poor and hamper economic development in the city. Link [http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=3315172]. Comment I: Maybe the Mayor should try

An 11-year-old boy was arrested this week for carrying ten nails in his pocket at a middle school and charged with carrying an unlawful weapon. The nails were left in his pocket after a Boy Scout meeting. Ten nails at first, sure. But then it's AK47s and flame

She should've used a cottage industry computer consultant who doesn't even own a floor model. Yeah, it would've cost her 8% more, but at least some stranger doesn't know her credit card numbers and the names of all the high school boyfriends

Interesting article at Lew Rockwell about GM's problems. Essentially, the writer says it comes down to this: Starting in the 1950s, GM bought lower wages for workers by giving them great OPEB ("other post-employment benefits"): great pensions and lifetime health care. The workers didn't

iPod vending machine at the Atlanta airport: