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No surprise: Internet in schools fails to improve results. However, it did provide a way to avoid thinking about educational problems.

Shocking events like September 11 provoke new variations on human weirdness: German faces jail for ‘ironic’ remark . Apparently, someone on an Internet message board said “Yay for killing Taleban POWs” and one Holger Voss answered “Yay 9/11 murderers.” The consequence was that the German police arrested poor Holger, and now he’s on trial for … More ...

Still suffer from Anglophilia? Read this: Bill Clinton heads Oxford’s wishlist for new Chancellor. The Times of London article notes that “If he indicates that he would like the post he would be a hot favourite among younger graduates and dons dazzled by his star appeal.”

The Fox News Tongue Tied Archive, a running compilation of PC oddities, is worth a bookmark. They seem to be changing their indexing, so their blog-style page might be the better link in the long run.

More cannibalism in the news: UK channel 4 to show artist eating dead baby. While some people are complaining, no publicly recognized principle is being violated. After all, cannibalism is a victimless crime in this instance. Further, we’re told by reputable authorities that unborn children have no moral worth, animals and human beings are … More ...

What’s at the heart of the current effort to abolish Christmas? Planned Parenthood’s “Choice on Earth” holiday card, which proclaims death instead of birth and the triumph of the will instead of the Peace of God, may provide a clue.

Merry Christmas!

From all of us at VFR

An update on what school textbooks are saying these days, published by the liberal-but-somewhat-populist New York Daily News: Schoolbooks are flubbing facts.

Patty Murray provides a textbook example of the use of divisive rhetoric as a diversion from issues by her denunciation of the use of divisive rhetoric as a diversion from issues. She says something utterly brainless about Osama and gets complaints. Her response? To lecture us about those “on the extreme fringes of society … More ...

Let sleeping dogs lie, be culturally sensitive, and above all don’t rock the boat: FBI investigators were ordered to stop Clinton-era investigations into suspected terror cell linked to al Qaeda. It’s hard to push an investigation forward when the higher-ups, for whatever reason, don’t want it to happen. And it gets even weirder when … More ...