Opinion
Opinion
In with teacher apprenticeships, out with colleges of education

(The Daily Signal) – Two persistent problems beset American schools. First, teachers must leave the classroom and become administrators or counselors to earn above the standard teacher salary. Second, colleges of … Read More

August 23, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: The ‘Five Cs’ of civic construction, and how they can rebuild America

(Editor’s note: This is the 7th of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 23, 2024
Opinion
‘Media-ocracy’: The corrupt media are putting all 10 fingers on the scale to be king makers in this election. Don’t let them

They knew. They knew it all along. Yet the Biden-Harris administration went to enormous lengths to conceal the president’s deteriorating mental state from the public – even lashing out bitterly at… Read More

August 22, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: How our ‘civic infrastructure’ is broken, and how we can we fix it

(Editor’s note: This is the 6th of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 22, 2024
Opinion
Op-ed: Homeschool works better for the ‘common good’ than public school

Critics of homeschooling frequently complain it’s too individualistic and hurts public schools, which they see as a “common good.” “Let’s not forget the reason public schools were funded in the… Read More

August 22, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: How did America get to this point, and whom can we blame?

(Editor’s note: This is the 5th of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 21, 2024
Opinion, Public Education
Irresponsible school districts force teachers to create Amazon wish lists

(The Daily Signal) – For several weeks, social media has been flooded by teachers’ posts with Amazon wish lists, soliciting others to stock their classrooms with basic supplies. Creating these… Read More

August 21, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: Saving America requires this historic juggling act

(Editor’s note: This is the 4th of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 20, 2024
Opinion
School choice doesn’t take from public schools – it gives power and control to parents

Is it the death of public-school funding, or the end of a government monopoly on where tax dollars are spent? To listen to critics of school choice, you would think… Read More

August 16, 2024
Opinion
No room at ESPN for women defending women’s sports

(The Daily Signal) – Turns out defending women’s sports is a no-go if you want a long career at ESPN. Samantha Ponder, host of “Sunday NFL Countdown,” has been fired, according… Read More

August 16, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: American exceptionalism, the secret sauce to saving the country

(Editor’s note: This is the 3rd of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 15, 2024
Opinion
YouRule!: Saving America requires bringing back civics – but making it as exciting as it really is

(Editor’s note: This is the 2nd of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 14, 2024
Opinion
Kansas school district tries to ‘hide’ 5% property tax increase

(The Sentinel) – It was presented as a 0.2% tax increase, but the Leavenworth, Kansas, school district is really proposing a 4.9% property tax increase, according to information from its … Read More

August 13, 2024
Opinion
‘How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It’

(Editor’s note: This is the 1st of 10 articles serializing Executive Editor Michael Ryan’s ebook YouRule!: How Saving America Depends Entirely on You And What You Can Do About It.)… Read More

August 13, 2024
Opinion
Overdue: Nearly 40% of Americans can’t pay their bills

(The Daily Signal) – A new poll finds that nearly 40% of Americans worry about paying the bills “most or all of the time”—which is even higher than during the 2008… Read More

August 13, 2024
Opinion
‘We are the news now’: Musk/Trump talk shows power of citizen journalism, growing irrelevance of corrupt legacy media

Left-wing politicians and their legacy lapdog media were worried sick about Elon Musk airing Donald Trump’s views on X Spaces Monday night. Indeed, a European Union commissioner, of all people,… Read More

August 13, 2024
Opinion
Critical race theory organizers plot their return to the classroom

(The Daily Signal) – The top practitioners of critical race theory just held a weeklong “summer school” in Nashville, Tennessee, to strategize, assess the movement, and debate how best… Read More

August 12, 2024
Opinion
Men pummel women for gold medals – and you’re the problem?

By now you’ve seen the news: two biological males, or women who tested positive for the XY chromosome (male), dominated their respective divisions to take gold medals in women’s boxing… Read More

August 12, 2024
Opinion
Middle America rattled by jobs report

(The Daily Signal) – For the past four years, inflation has rattled local small businesses across the country. The inflation rate peaked in 2022, but of course the cost of goods never went… Read More

August 7, 2024
Opinion
Back to school is a time to foster creativity

(The Daily Signal) – Back-to-school season is here, and with the recent examples of race-based classroom activities and sexually charged curriculum in schools nationwide, parents are right to wonder what their… Read More

August 6, 2024