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Blacks and education half a century after Brown vs. Board of Education – Thomas Sowell  Part 1  The first two decades after 1940 saw a more rapid rise of blacks out of poverty and into higher paying jobs than the decades following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or the affirmative action policies that began in the 1970s….a now largely futile crusade against discrimination distracts attention from the urgent need to upgrade educational standards and job skills among blacks.   http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3678  Part 2 Racial mixing and matching has been the great quack remedy for the educational lags of black school children that has substituted for higher standards and harder work.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3679

The media frenzy about Abu Ghraib prison – Thomas Sowell It is hard to think of a war in which we did not confront terrible setbacks at some point, beginning with the American military defeats in the war for independence, the British setting fire to the White House during the War of 1812, numerous bloody disasters during the Civil War, and Pearl Harbor in World War II. .. But the maturity to think beyond the moment has apparently become far more scarce today than it was in the days of the greatest generation. Will future historians call us the childish generation? http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3681

Guns protect city official but not her constituents http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200405/CUL20040511b.html

Federal spending creates few jobs – less value -- At its peak job production, the 35,000 new jobs created by this program came at a taxpayer cost of $257,142 per job ($485,714 per job in inflation adjusted dollars). Under the circumstances, a far more cost effective effort would have been to hire the unemployed to dig holes in the morning, and fill them up in the afternoon. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3674

Big Talk on Iraq – Charley Reese http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040512/index.php

Why the Muslim world is afraid of American television http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3683

The beheading of American Nick Berg in Iraq The beheading of Nick Berg cannot be understood as something that America caused. Al-Qaeda does not care when prisoners are mistreated. For them, the big picture is to weaken and humiliate the U.S. and to prevent the rise of an Arab democracy.  http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3686

Mr. President, what are you going to do about the murder of Nick Berg? http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3684

Shame on the press The world's Left, which sets the United Nations' and the news media's priorities, is only interested in human suffering when it is caused by whites, Christians or Jews, especially Americans and Israelis. That explains the world's and the media's indifference to the decimation of Tibet -- it was perpetrated by Chinese; to the genocide in Rwanda -- it was perpetrated by black Africans; to the genocide of blacks in Sudan -- it is perpetrated by Arab Muslims; to the genocide in North Korea -- it is perpetrated by Koreans. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20040511.shtml

Vouchers spur public schools to compete healthy competition is a tool by which all are raised to a higher standard. When companies truly and fairly compete, product quality improves, cost declines, and consumers, executives, and laborers all benefit. The same is true when schools compete. http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=198

Kerry’s refusal to inform his conscience is detrimental http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_2869501,00.html

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