It’s not just the ridiculous way we teach – or don’t teach – math these days that causes concerned parents to teach long division to their children on the sly. People clearly don’t comprehend history either.
Althouse: 22% of Americans “believe any state or region has the right to peaceably secede and become an independent republic.”
22% of Americans “believe any state or region has the right to peaceably secede and become an independent republic.”
According to a new Middlebury Institute/Zogby International poll.And it’s 40% among those aged 18 to 24, 43% among Hispanics, and 40% among African-Americans.
The Civil War was about slavery, wasn’t it? Just like World War II was to save the Jews from being slaughtered. Look, a bright shiny object!! … I’m sorry, you were saying?
Yet another reason why over a million children in this country, including my daughter, are homeschooled.


Uh no…. only one state has the actual guaranteed right to secede and become it’s own nation and that is Texas. It was guaranteed to the state when Texas was annexed by the United States. In addition TX continues to have the right to divide itself into five individual states. Now that isn’t such a bad proposition…. Texas would then have 10 senators……
Homeschooling is the only way to go in my book. But then it was my life for 17 years.