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The Ambassador and the Post Office

At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors’ Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of…

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Random thoughts on the passing scene:

Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that…

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Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady who was caught in a fierce snow storm that produced conditions called a “whiteout.” That’s…

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A political battle that is shaping up in San Francisco has implications for other communities across the country.

The issue that will be on…

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There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to “do something” about rape on campus.

But there seems to be remarkably little…

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If you want to get some idea of the moral bankruptcy of our educational system, read an article in the May 4th issue of the New York Times…

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Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker was internationally renowned within the economics profession, but was not nearly as well known among the…

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Dunbar High School in Washington is becoming a controversial issue again — and the controversy that is beginning to develop has implications for…

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It is not easy to demonize people who have spent hundreds of millions of dollars of their own money to help educate poor children. But some…

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Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the…

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