By James Wigderson Special guest perspective for the MacIver Institute This time the teachers unions picked New Berlin as the place to make a stand Monday night. The New Berlin School District considered an employee handbook to set the employee benefits for the upcoming school year, and teachers came from all over to protest the…
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Tom DeWeese
Sustainable Development Means a Wrenching Transformation of Your Life
By Tom DeWeese Recently W. Cecil Steward, dean emeritus of the University of Nebraska- Lincoln College of Architecture launched what can only be described as a diatribe against a talk I gave recently in Lincoln. My topic was Sustainable Development and how it is transforming out nation. In his article, Mr. Steward, rather than provide…
Star Parker
Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation
By Star Parker Six years ago I wrote a book called “Uncle Sam’s Plantation.” I wrote the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare state and my own transformation out of it. I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas. A poor America on socialism…
Science and Environmental Policy Project
The Week That Was September 10, 2011
Quote of the Week “I’m an experimental particle physicist, okay? That somehow nature may have decided to connect the high-energy physics of the cosmos with the earth’s atmosphere – that’s what nature may have done, not what I’ve done.” Jasper Kirkby, leader of the CLOUD experiment at CERN that did not falsify the solar -cosmic…
Heartland Institute, Joy Pullmann
Union Behind Rhee Attack Site
By Joy Pullmann A computer registered to the American Federation of Teachers created the preeminent website for online attacks on former D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Politico has reported . A tracking tool located the site’s IP address in AFT’s D.C. offices, though the site has since varied its IP location. The website, RheeFirst!, criticizes…
Gary Wickert
All Hat and No Cattle
Obama’s Laser-Like Focus on Jobs Out of Focus Never in the history of America has a president talked more about creating jobs and done less to actually create them. If speeches could put people to work America would have the lowest unemployment on the planet. Unfortunately, unemployment continues to rise as a president challenging Herbert…