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Posted at 2:22pm on Mar. 6, 2008 California Home Schooling Now Requires Certification
By Werewolf of London
Well, California now says that parents have to certified in order to home school your child.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeschool6mar06,0,7343621.story...
This is an interesting issue and one that I am not sure where I come down on.
On one hand I'm sympathetic to parents who don't like the public school system and want to home school.
On the other hand I'm concerned that some bat crazy loons who have no ability to properly educate children on how to read, write, add and multiply have no supervision and do not have to pass any qualification exams in order to home school.
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Posted at 1:34pm on Feb. 28, 2008 Record Number of Americans In Prison
By Werewolf of London
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
18 minutes ago
NEW YORK - For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report tracking the surge in inmate population and urging states to rein in corrections costs with alternative sentencing programs.
"We need to be smarter," said David Muhlhausen, a criminal justice expert with the conservative Heritage Foundation. "We're not incarcerating all the people who commit serious crimes — but we're also probably incarcerating people who don't need to be."
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Posted at 12:21pm on Feb. 8, 2008 Realities Conservatives Have To Come To Grips With
By Werewolf of London
This primary season has set in bold relief certain political realities many of us conservatives have accepted as true, but now have to face up to as not being so. In no particular order of importance here are 6 of those realities.
1. Conservatives are not the base of the Republican Party:
Look at our presidential nominees since Reagan. Clearly not a conservative in the bunch. I simply no longer can entertain the argument that conservatives are the base of the party. If we were we would have AT LEAST ONE conservative presidential nominee since Reagan. Plus, look at how a GOP Congress legislated for six years. Clearly not a conservative Congress. The truth is that what many of us call the "base" is really a coalition of 3 primary groups (SoCons, FisCons and HawkCons) that more often then not have differeing if not opposing policy positions. Sure, on a few issues the base comes together, but these issues are too few to legimately describe the 3 groups as the base. The history of the party since Reagan clearly supports the conclusion that only an extremely magnetic personality like Reagan can truly bring these groups together in any meaningful way.
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