“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth,” John Steinbeck famously wrote in “The Grapes of Wrath,” his 1939fictional American epicof hardened Okies escaping the Dust Bowl for California. The world ...
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do. —Th...
In the UK, they’re considered stinky, rude (they never line/queue up like decent people), and a bit yellow, based on their tendency to not fend off invaders like the Nazis.The French, in turn, dislike the British, look down on Belgians for being stupid, and don’t have much to s...
I was 16 and worked part time at a gas station pumping the fuel and doing lube jobs...ding ding. (Ah, the good old days) Anyway, we had a Provincial election and we were talking politics and I asked my boss why he supported the NDP, who were very pro Union at that time and ...