Irvine, CA--With the No Child Left Behind Act up for reauthorization, critics are pointing out that it is preventing gifted children from advancing ahead. Because the act forces states to ensure that the weakest students are not left behind, it has dried up funding for programs intended to challenge the strongest.

Teachers’ union punishes success - Dr. Raj Chopra has made a career of turning around failing schools. In 2001, the Phoenix Union High School District graduation rate was a dismal 55 percent. Seven of the 10 high schools were rated “underperforming”. By 2006, the graduation rate had climbed to 72 percent and all 10 high schools were ranked “performing plus.”

What was the first thing that ran through your head when you read that headline?

The voicing of the unpopular, being the very soul of free speech, the right to give and take offense shall not be infringed.

In his State of the Union address last Tuesday, President Bush briefly touched on the horrors of the HIV/AIDS pandemic currently plaguing Africa.  Most everyone agrees that something must be done to combat the spread of this dreadful and preventable disease which continues to infect many throughout the poverty stricken continent.

The Super Bowl Offers a Too-Rare Celebration of Goal-Achievement - As half the nation eagerly awaits the kickoff of the Super Bowl, the other half looks on in wonderment at what could be so enthralling about grown men running up and down a field carrying an oblong ball.

Her new piece on Political Correctness is a winner.

In “The Historical Roots of ‘Political Correctness,’ author Raymond V. Raehn observed that America is “dominated by an alien system of beliefs, attitudes, and values that we have come to know as ‘Political Correctness.’ Political Correctness seeks to impose a uniformity of thought and behavior on all Americans and is therefore totalitarian in nature.  Its roots lie in a version of Marxism which seeks a radical inversion of the traditional culture in order to create a social revolution."(1)

The Washington Post reported that on November 27, a group of imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a pray-in at Reagan National Airport. The group of religious leaders staged the pray-in to “demanded an apology from US Airways for removing six Muslim clerics from a Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight.” The religious leaders involved in the pray-in were reported to be calling for an end to racial profiling. But that’s not what this case was all about. And even if it was, racial profiling was still justified.

At one point, the Duke University rape case received more media attention than the war on Iraq, the Iran nuclear threat and even the baseball steroid scandal. It even got as much media attention as Rose O’Donnell-Donald Trump brouhaha.