REPRINTED FROM BFINFOSYSTEMS.COM In recent years, the cost of higher education in America has skyrocketed. The truth that students of all ages was seeking seemed out of reach for many Americans. Now that truth can be learned for a sum that ranges from free to almost free. American higher education is being revolutionized by technology. Long-distance learning is no longer considered invalid. Institutions of higher learning, such as MIT,...

The Seductive Appeal of the 14th Amendment The liberal drumbeat for the President to circumvent the Congress and Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution. Katrina Vanden Heuval of the Nation, a well known left-wing magazine, was given center of the page exposure on the editorial page of the Washington Post today. Her column predicted the end of war as we know it if the debt limit is not raised. Read it here. Vanden Heuval predicts a...

Whack-A-Mole Just when you thought that we conservatives were starting to tame the liberal beast a new sinister attempt to control our lives has reared its ugly head: Sustainability. If you haven’t heard about this one you better get your lib detectors up and detecting. I live in Albemarle County, Virginia and we are in the midst of heated controversy about sustainability. What is it you ask? The sustainability initiative was started by...

The New Barbary Pirates On October 31, 1803 the U.S.S. Philadelphia was captured when she ran aground some five miles east of Tripoli harbor. One of the ships that captured the Philadelphia was the bomb ketch Mastico. On December 23, 1803 the Mastico was in turn captured by the U.S.S. Enterprise (the second of this name) under the command of Lt. Stephen Decatur. The Mastico was renamed the U.S.S. Intrepid. On the night of February 16, 1804...

2012 Potential Republican Candidates Part 4 Today, we’ll profile three current governors: Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Mitch Daniels of Indiana. This will be a rather long post due to having three profiles. Piyush Amrit “Bobby” Jindal is the 55th and current Governor of Louisiana and formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives. Jindal was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on June 10,...

We Owe Them Everything I regularly read the Washington Post and when I do I always read the obituaries in the paper. Anyone who had the remotest connection to the Washington area appears in the Posts’ obituaries. They always have the obituaries of Medal of Honor recipients. Last week I read the obituary of one Barney F. Hanjiro, PFC, U.S. Army. Private Hanjiro was a 19-year old when his actions in October 1944 earned him the Congressional...