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Human Rights vs. Property Rights – Walter Williams --My computer is my property. Does it have any rights -- like the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?... A good working description of slavery is that it is a condition where a person does not own what he produces.  http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050803.shtml

Home schoolers are challenging the education monopoly --  On nationally normed standardized achievement tests, the average score for all public school students is 50 in all areas. For all home schooled students taking the same tests, the average score for the complete battery of tests was 87, a whopping difference of 37 percentile points. For example: Total Reading, 87; Total Math, 82; Social Studies, 85. In every category, the home-schooled kids out-performed their public school peers. …Kids taught by parents and inculcated with their values might miss out on “an openness to diversity and new ideas,” he warned.  Yes, and they might also miss out on dangerous drugs, gang violence, sacrilegious and degrading music, peer pressure to try sex before marriage, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, to mention just a few of the more prominent aspects of “socialization” being democratically spread through the public school system daily.  http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8495

John Stossel:  Cut off PBS funding http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/8/9/100111.shtml

Making intelligent errors – Walter Williams – should we err on the side of too much caution or too little? It depends on the cost. 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20050810.shtml

Trashing Our History:  Troops In Iraq – Thomas Sowell  The unrelenting quest for stories depicting American troops as victims -- including even front-page stories about the financial problems of some National Guardsmen called to active duty -- has created a virtual reality in the media that has no place for heroes. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050810.shtml

Trashing Our History:  Hiroshima – Thomas Sowell  Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts? http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050809.shtml

Church desecration video is used as a fundraiser for jihadists http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/august/0811_church_video1.shtml

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