by Baylen Linnekin. It's parents that feed babies candy, soda, and chips. A study of infant diets in one British city has revealed some uncomfortable truths about what many parents feed their children. The study, by lead author Pinki Sahota of Leeds Beckett University and several colleagues, tracked the diets of more than 1,250 babies in the ... MORE
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Showing posts with label knowledge. Show all posts
Don't Blame Food Companies For What You Feed Your Kids
by Baylen Linnekin. It's parents that feed babies candy, soda, and chips. A study of infant diets in one British city has revealed some uncomfortable truths about what many parents feed their children. The study, by lead author Pinki Sahota of Leeds Beckett University and several colleagues, tracked the diets of more than 1,250 babies in the ... MORERay Williams: The Cult Of Ignorance In The United States: Anti-Intellectualism And The "Dumbing Down" Of America
The rise of the idiot in America. There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in
American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and
humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness,
ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article ... MORE
Time For Trump Rivals To Consolidate To Save America
by Thomas Sowell. The Super Tuesday primaries may be a turning point for America — and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next president of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to rescue ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Musings of a wise man. Will this November's presidential election come down to a choice between a felon and a pied piper? People who call Barack Obama a lame duck president seem not to have noticed that he is exercising more power than ever, and has turned the Republican Congress into a lame duck branch of government. The best New Year's ... MOREThomas Sowell: Complicating The Obvious
Electronic "improvement" rears its ugly head. Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English. It is understandable when complicated processes require complicated operations. But when the very simplest things are designed with needless complications ... MOREEconomics Is About Scarcity, Property, and Relationships
by Michael J. McKay. The other day I was having coffee with a new friend, a retired businessman who had customized luxury cars in California. I mentioned I had recently retired from owning an investment firm and had studied economics for many years, especially Austrian economics. Like so many people, he said, “I really don't understand economics ... MORE
French Make U.S. Look Like WWII France
by Barry Farber. Our schools laid great stress on sportsmanship and fair play. It’s possible I took those lessons to a ridiculous extreme. When I was still in short pants and speaking soprano I was a bit of a World War II prodigy. There was actually a time you could have given me a huge map of the world and any date from the beginning of the war to the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Why Home Schooling?
Imparting values along with knowledge. Many public primary and secondary schools are dangerous places. The Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics show that in 2012, there were about 749,200 violent assaults on students. In the 2011-12 academic ... MOREChris Edwards: Why The Federal Government Fails
The 5 structural reasons. Most Americans think that the federal government is incompetent and wasteful. Their negative view is not surprising given the steady stream of scandals emanating from Washington. Scholarly studies support the idea that many federal activities are misguided and harmful. A recent book on federal performance ... MOREWesley Pruden: Ethnic Ceansing Of The American South
The South is the new China. Southerners, like the Chinese, revere the past, worship their ancestors (and their flags), and eat a lot of rice. William Faulkner observed that the past is not dead, because it is not even past. He applied that sentiment only to Southerners, but if he had been among us over the past fortnight he would have revised it to ... MORE
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