Detroit school board chief Otis Mathis admits to a “grammar problem.” When some of his emails (consisting of 3rd-grade level grammar) got out in the public, the local media nicely jumped on it. From Laura Berman’s column:
He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence. Here’s a sample from an e-mail he sent [...]

Manuel Lora’s post on LewRockwell.com about the Department of Voluntary Coercion stating that tax laws require only “voluntary compliance” is exactly one of those things I harped on in my post about educating people in making proper distinctions, deconstructing GovernmentSpeak, defining terms, and forcing critical assessment of what is said in the media. This is the essence [...]

I can’t think of a more unconvincing opportunist, on the entire Internet, than the unreadable, lifeless, progressive-socialist butt-kisser Matthew Yglesias. I’ve never witnessed any so-called writer who can manage to blab on so incessantly and attain so little outside of pleading for the “public good” while predictably invoking recycled left-wing buzzwords and been-there-done-that reformist tripe.
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Robin leaves a great John Taylor Gatto quote in the comments section of my recent blog post. This one is worth repeating. This is from Gatto’s essay, “Some Reflections on the Equivalencies Between Forced Schooling and Prison.”
Almost all Americans have had an intense school experience which occupied their entire youth, an experience during which they [...]