By Patrick J. Buchanan Jason Richwine, the young conservative scholar who co-authored the Heritage Foundation report on the long-term costs of the amnesty bill backed by the "Gang of Eight," is gone from Heritage. He was purged after The Washington Post unearthed his doctoral dissertation at the JFK School of Government. Richwine's thesis: IQ tests fairly measure mental ability. The Continue reading...
A.D. 2041 – End of White America?
Tuesday - October 18, 2011 at 1:06 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, "The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize." In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: "In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the Continue reading...
The Dumbing-Down of America
Tuesday - June 21, 2011 at 12:54 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "Is our children learning?" as George W. Bush so famously asked. Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America's young perform at their worst. On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the "Nation's Report Card," most fourth-graders could not identify a Continue reading...
Who Owns the Future?
Tuesday - December 28, 2010 at 12:13 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan "That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow." So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Every three years, the Paris-based OECD holds its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests of the reading, math and science skills of 15-year-olds in developing and developed countries. Continue reading...
Dumbo University
Friday - November 20, 2009 at 12:01 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan As George W. Bush famously asked, "Is our children learning?" Apparently not in the twin capitals of liberalism, D.C. and New York. Continue reading...
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