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Phillis

Hofstadter's the Paranoid Style in American Politics

How does the need for certainty block the capacity to learn? Paranoid Mentality The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Views: 169 Replies: 5

Last Post: Oct 20, 2010 6:49pm
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

VENONA

Venona This book by no means vindicates McCarthy. Too bad some commentators on this forum like to imitate McCarthy's demagoguery and propagandistic accusations.

Views: 175 Replies: 8

Last Post: Oct 20, 2010 6:26pm
by Ron Harrison

Listen to Orionid meteors if you can't get a good view of them

http://spaceweather.com/

Views: 110 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 20, 2010 6:17pm
by Ron Harrison

Detroit prosecutor wants to jail parents who skip parent-teacher conferences

http://www.detnews.com/article/20101020 /METRO/10200350/Worthy-proposes-jail-for -parents-who-skip-kids’-school-conferences

Views: 119 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 20, 2010 3:31pm
by js

Brainwashing Inc-A Parody Sales Flyer

The movement back and forth between classrooms at the sound of a bell, staying in the group with same age people, having to listen to someone else do the talking. Gets to be irritating, doesn't it? That's why starting today, we at Brainwashing Incorporated want you t...

Views: 113 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 20, 2010 9:19am
by AB

Phillis

From a philosophy blog: Why Taxation Is Not Theft

Let go of that mantra for a minute and think about it: Taxation Not Theft

Views: 190 Replies: 27

Last Post: Oct 19, 2010 5:14pm
by js

Phillis

Polygamy was a tradition in many instances of biblical marriage

Most churches condemn that practice today. But they don't condemn other scripture-based forms of inequality for women.

Views: 116 Replies: 3

Last Post: Oct 19, 2010 2:30am
by js

Phillis

New videos from AERO

AERO

Views: 115 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 18, 2010 7:27pm
by Ron Harrison

Why Ron Harrison Doesn't Get Homeschooling

In my posting on the subject of home education, Ron seems to have hit a snag in his reasoning skills, which is why he attacks me without providing any proof to back up his own position. He writes: "How can you claim to have read Mr. Gatto and to be a member of thi...

Views: 252 Replies: 22

Last Post: Oct 18, 2010 6:33pm
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Yale fraternity's chant reveals depth of our culture's misogyny

Misogyny "A Yale fraternity inducts pledges with a chant extolling rape culture. The problem isn't that they repeatedly yelled something stupid. It's that I'm no longer sure we're shocked by people turning rape and sexual assault into some kind of a joke."

Views: 116 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 18, 2010 5:18pm
by js

Ambrose Bierce's Comment On Politics

Here's some advice that everyone on the forum should take to heart: "Conservatives are enamored of existing evils while liberals want to create new ones". That's something that we haven't figured out when it comes to education.

Views: 103 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 18, 2010 7:43am
by AB

Hate in America: Misandry

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=4907

Views: 111 Replies: 4

Last Post: Oct 17, 2010 4:19pm
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Taxes and the Military: Harry Kreisler talks with Chalmers Johnson

Counterpunch "Standing behind it is the military-industrial complex. We must, once again, bear in mind the powerful warnings of probably the two most prominent generals in our history. George Washington, in his farewell address, warns about the threat of standin...

Views: 137 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 17, 2010 4:12pm
by Ron Harrison

If Men Were Angels

http://mises.org/daily/4784 If Men Were Angels Mises Daily: Friday, October 15, 2010 by Robert Higgs [Excerpted from "If Men Were Angels," Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2007.] In The Federalist No. 51, arguably the most important one of all, James Madison wr...

Views: 144 Replies: 6

Last Post: Oct 17, 2010 9:51am
by Phillis

Bobbi in AB

Hello AB & Amy

Sorry I missed you when you came aboard. How many kiddos do you home educate AB? Need any help, I'm here every so often, there are lots of folk to give you a helping hand here.

Views: 109 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 16, 2010 11:02pm
by Bobbi in AB

Phillis

Justice with Michael Sandel via WGBH

With background readings in Bentham, Mill, Locke, Kant, Rawls, Aristotle. Can reason and argument be the basis of morality and justice? Or belief in religious beliefs? Justice with Michael Sandel

Views: 122 Replies: 2

Last Post: Oct 16, 2010 10:06pm
by Phillis

Phillis

Economica -- Women in the Global Economy

Whether or not one agrees with some of the policy measures discussed on this site, I thought readers would be interested in the pictures of women's lives around the world: Economica

Views: 117 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 16, 2010 8:09am
by Phillis

Phillis

On cranks, for a very cranky forum

Denialism Some of the reasons it's futile to discuss many topics with the cranky ones here.

Views: 132 Replies: 6

Last Post: Oct 16, 2010 5:52am
by Ron Harrison

Finding Shakespeare and reclaiming the classics

http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2008/jpearce_interview_apr08.asp

Views: 232 Replies: 11

Last Post: Oct 16, 2010 4:45am
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Authoritarians in Libertarian Clothing

Views: 164 Replies: 6

Last Post: Oct 16, 2010 4:18am
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Misogyny in world religions

Woman Hatred

Views: 185 Replies: 6

Last Post: Oct 15, 2010 7:48pm
by Percy D.

Phillis

War, rape, sex stereotypes

Stereotypes that are not separate from those in civilian institutions. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

Views: 110 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 15, 2010 7:30pm
by js

Brooklyn Space Program

http://www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/BSP/Home.html

Views: 81 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 15, 2010 5:48pm
by js

Phillis

'Can Marriage Survive?' from January 2008 Cato Unbound

Views of marriage that differ from those of the Quiverfull movement: Can Marriage Survive?

Views: 132 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 15, 2010 3:39pm
by js

Tom Gary

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Views: 53 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 15, 2010 12:16pm
by Tom Gary

Homie Unschoolie

Peeps

http://www.secular-homeschooling.com/ http://www.secularhomeschool.com/content/207-Secular-Homeschool-Blogs http://cobranchi.com/ http://technomom.com/hs/ganaturalhs.shtml http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2009/09/28/confessions_homeschooler/index.html...

Views: 96 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 15, 2010 9:10am
by Percy D.

Why Conservatives Are Wrong On the Subject Of Tracking and How Homeschoolers Disprove Them

The debates played out in school systems across the country usually focus on which subjects to staff with the 'best' teachers and which kids get to take which classes based on their previous performances. The latter is the more important issue because they're simply...

Views: 231 Replies: 16

Last Post: Oct 14, 2010 5:46am
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Fancy this. In Walter Block's anarchist world, private police forces would break down doors.

Imagine that! Guns, tasers and pepper spray drawn? LewRockwell.com "How Would An Anarchist Society Handle Child Abuse? A correspondence between Walter Block and Michael Fleischer"

Views: 96 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 13, 2010 8:01pm
by js

Using language to control thoughts

I read or heard something interesting recently but I can't recall where. It may have been Father Groeschel on EWTN. The gist of it was that defining people by what they DO enables them to be de-humanized and reduced to an undesirable or negative behavior. Examples...

Views: 118 Replies: 4

Last Post: Oct 13, 2010 7:53pm
by js

Phillis AND js miss the point

Reading the back and forth between Phillis and js on Joe Sobran, I feel that the basic point is being missed by both sides, which is that the two would have have more in common if they would find common ground. Phillis is wrong to paint js negatively simply because t...

Views: 173 Replies: 15

Last Post: Oct 13, 2010 7:48pm
by Phillis

Phillis

Just for psik

The Theory of Interstellar Trade http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/the-theory-of-interstellar-trade/ Paul Krugman's Theory of Interstellar Trade

Views: 119 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 13, 2010 2:22pm
by psikeyhackr

Ronald McDonald The Capitalist Pig

Guess which burger is 12 years old?

Views: 83 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 13, 2010 12:17pm
by Ronald McDonald ...

Paul deGaulle

No potholes in Europe

Faultless infrastructure. Speedy medical and dental care. Less than one fifth the violent crime. Lower cost of living, better quality of life.

Views: 78 Replies: 1

Last Post: Oct 13, 2010 4:23am
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Free John Taylor Gatto videos from AERO

Keynote Weapons of Mass Instruction Keynote

Views: 125 Replies: 2

Last Post: Oct 12, 2010 5:20pm
by Phillis

Phillis

js, please clarify something for me

Is there any part of the following excerpt from Winston Churchill's article with which you disagree? "From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxemburg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United...

Views: 179 Replies: 14

Last Post: Oct 12, 2010 4:16am
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

One more little thing: an interesting discussion of Sobran and his causes

Holocaust Skeptic?

Views: 110 Replies: 3

Last Post: Oct 12, 2010 12:50am
by js

Worth a Look

Democracy Now

http://www.democracynow.org

Views: 190 Replies: 13

Last Post: Oct 11, 2010 2:48pm
by js

Phillis

The "magisterium in action"?

Should a mother die so a fetus can live? Nun Expelled

Views: 160 Replies: 9

Last Post: Oct 11, 2010 2:29pm
by js

Percy D.

Our Patchwork Nation

Just heard a fascinating interview with one of the authors of a new book called Our Patchwork Nation, about the real demographics of the US -- eg how small towns "purify" ideologically and develop specialist economies when the liberals in them move to cities, or how...

Views: 114 Replies: 0

Last Post: Oct 11, 2010 12:16pm
by Percy D.

Percy D.

Sham-WOW!

No I'm not shilling towels but I *did* stop by to plug my favorite new read, Home Education Magazine. A very decent mag with solid writing throughout, truly a cut above. Is anyone else here familiar with it?

Views: 190 Replies: 16

Last Post: Oct 11, 2010 6:27am
by Percy D.

Percy Dovetonsil

js -- A Journey to Unschooling

Wanted to start this as a new post because you posted the link to that interesting article three pages ago, but js are you in fact a proponent of unschooling? I can see how it squares with your libertarian beliefs, but I wonder if you're 100% with it. Just a coup...

Views: 209 Replies: 8

Last Post: Oct 11, 2010 6:15am
by Percy D.

Phillis

Sides to the zygote, embryo, fetus dispute from Religious Tolerance

"Sides" to the dispute

Views: 129 Replies: 10

Last Post: Oct 11, 2010 3:59am
by Ron Harrison

Arthur Robinson interview (Robinson Curriculum-he's running for office)

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Views: 151 Replies: 11

Last Post: Oct 10, 2010 8:19pm
by Ron Harrison

Phillis

Gatto must have lost his head for a minute when saying good things about Sudbury Valley School

Maybe he's in favor of the "mob rule" js claims is democracy instead of authoritarian rule by parental overseers and adults who "know best." Chapter 3 "The Sudbury Valley School I know a school for kids ages three to eighteen that doesn’t teach anybo...

Views: 135 Replies: 7

Last Post: Oct 10, 2010 12:19pm
by js

Are You a Marxist

http://www.sobran.com/columns/2008/080304.shtml

Views: 305 Replies: 27

Last Post: Oct 10, 2010 10:43am
by Phillis

Phillis

Gatto, 1998 YES! magazine article, 'Education for the Masses'

Universal Education Making people stupid enough for wage labor, as Adam Smith said: "In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined...

Views: 185 Replies: 20

Last Post: Oct 10, 2010 10:38am
by Phillis

Lurlene

As all you brilliant homeschoolers read the Loeb Classics, remember

Historians Admit to Inventing Ancient Greeks

Views: 98 Replies: 2

Last Post: Oct 10, 2010 8:22am
by Percy D.

Ron Harrison

What's wrong with this??

http://mises.org/daily/287 Yes, even Mises.org occasionally hits my hot button. Ron

Views: 151 Replies: 8

Last Post: Oct 9, 2010 7:36pm
by Ron Harrison