More Happy Thanksgiving!

Speaking of giving thanks:
Thanks, But No ThanksJames LewisThanksgiving is just one day a year. The rest of the time we have a National Gratitude Deficit --- or at least our noisiest public voices do. More

Reclaiming high school educationNovember 21, 2007More and more families have given up on the public school system, and for good reason. More

When, oh when, is this state going to fall off the continent?
San Francisco Rolls out the Welcome Mat for IllegalsNovember 21, 2007Leave it to "sanctuary city" San Francisco to pull something like this: More

Interesting information on Thanksgiving.
John Stossel: The Tragedy of the Commons
Every year around this time, schoolchildren are taught about that wonderful day when Pilgrims and Native Americans shared the fruits of the harvest. "Isn't sharing wonderful?" say the teachers.

Seems we have forgotten so many of their values.
Walter E. Williams: The Greatest Generation
The "greatest generation" is a term sometimes used in reference to those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front.

We're blessed to have so much to complain about.
Michelle Malkin: Stop Before You Gripe
Before you blow your top about the holiday hassle at the airport, the long lines at the grocery store, all the hours you'll spend cooking and cleaning, the uninvited guests who are crashing hubby's football party, and the endless Christmas shopping list that awaits, just stop.

Andrew Tallman: Should Children Be Encouraged to Think for Themselves?
Should children be encouraged to think for themselves? This is one of those questions that seems to invite an immediate and emphatic, almost dismissive answer.

As if this would be news to me. I know some that would sneer at my response.
Ken Connor: Thankful to Whom?
As we approach Thanksgiving Day, most Americans know what we are thankful for, but to whom should we be thankful? Be careful with your answer, because it may offend the politically correct crowd.

Janice Shaw Crouse: The Glass Ceiling of Home
While undergraduate ratios of women to men continue at about 60 to 40 and close to half or more of the students in professional graduate programs (medicine, law, business) are women, less than 20 percent of partners in law firms are women. The same representation exists in other professional arenas ? tenure-track professors, heads of medical practices, members of Congress, corporate executives and CEOs of businesses.

Boy Scouts being demonized again. One of the last bastions in which kids learn responsibility.
Robert Knight: Post Sugarcoats Thuggery Against Philadelphia?s Boy Scouts
The Washington Post this week stepped delicately around the thuggish tactics employed by Philadelphia City Solicitor Romulo Diaz, who has engineered a coup against the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America.