Entries by Dr. Rich Swier

IRS website instructs Grades 3 – 5 public school students on why taxes are good

The IRS has produced a comprehensive website, lesson plans and instructional materials to teach public school children about taxes. The IRS website is titled, “Understanding Taxes“. Kids.gov supports the teaching of elementary school children about taxes. Explaining Taxes to Students Lesson Plan (Grades 3 – 5): Overview: Your students may be curious about what taxes are and why […]

President Obama Declares America Indefensible due to Sequestration

Forced by the sequestration to trim $85 billion from the country’s $3.6 trillion budget, President Barack Obama announced today that he would not deploy the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf as part of his plan to disband the entire United States military. “I warned Congress that these cuts did not have to happen,” […]

New Study Finds 21 States Have More Non-Teaching Staff than Teachers

INDIANAPOLIS — Twenty-one states employ more bus drivers, librarians, cafeteria workers, deputy superintendents, accountants, coaches, nurses, assistant principals, and other non-teaching personnel than they do classroom teachers, according to a new analysis of state education employees by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. In Florida there has been a 36% increase in the number of […]

CLAIMS OF VOTER SUPPRESSION FALSE

HOUSTON, TX. February 27, 2013 – True the Vote (TTV), the leading national, nonpartisan voters’ rights and election integrity organization, today issued a report detailing the true impacts of voter suppression in 2012 in a report titled, “The 2012 Voter Suppression Myth.” Catherine Engelbrecht, president of True the Vote, expressed deep skepticism about alleged reports of widespread voter suppression […]

In Italy a new party is born: What does that mean for the United States?

“The Five Star Movement “tsunami” an electoral triumph” by George Lombardi (posted with the author’s permission): ROME — The results of Italy’s historical elections confirm the desire of a great many Italians who expressed their desire for change. Almost one third of the vote went to new actors of the complex Italian political system. Two […]