For students researching and debating the European Union immigration reform, Who Really Wants to Solve the Problem of Poverty? shares a success story of 600 million escaping poverty. The worldwide transition from poverty to...
It’s always a good time to review, restructure, and reduce federal programs long shown to be ineffective. This includes programs for foreign aid, and foreign policy regarding international terrorism, plus legal immigration, recent national...
Notes and links for presentation to the Student Conference On National Affairs (SCONA) Texas A&M University, February 25, 2011 Below are updated notes from my presentation to military students attending the 2011 Student Conference...
The school year has begun and immigration policy is in the news. Current national and Texas debate topics focus on immigration policy and values. The national NSDA (and UIL) policy topic is: Resolved: The...
The NSDA Public Forum topic for January: “Resolved: Spain should grant Catalonia its independence,” opens students to a range of complicated politics, economics, and history. The 2020 NCFCA topic on E.U. immigration reform also...
In “The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy,” (Time, Dec. 13, 2016), Hannah Beach reports on the sad reality of China’s misguided 1979 policy of limiting most families to one child. Some costs of China’s family planning, which...
For Stoa debaters, further down in this post, I argue the “best person of the twenty-first century” could be a homeschool debater standing up before the United Nations and world leaders to make the...
Imagine a World in the State of Texas… Notes from a talk given to the New York City Junto. To illustrate that the world is not in any meaningful way overpopulated, Julian Simon, author...
…about 90 percent of all the plastic that reaches the world’s oceans gets flushed through just 10 rivers: The Yangtze, the Indus, Yellow River, Hai River, the Nile, the Ganges, Pearl River, Amur River,...
August news items and notes for the K-12 education reform topic. • “The newest advantage of being rich in America? Higher grades Escalating grade inflation at wealthy high schools is another blow to poor...
