New York City spends thirty-eight thousand dollars ($38,000) annually per student in the public school system. Big number, deleterious results.
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in Opinion
Wayne Weddington
Let's Pay People to Go to Church
in Opinion
Empirical studies strongly suggest that people who attend church or who participate in community institutions have better lives and are more productive citizens.
Read MoreSir Veillance
in Opinion
We invite Alexa, Siri and "OK Google" into our homes, providing them access to every word we say. Then the tech companies turn these conversations into commercializable moments, nudging us with curated advertisements to purchase goods and services from their clients.
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The American Race
Our collective national dignity of the American Experiment does not countenance that we refer to each other by skin hue, or measure one's patriotism by the continent from whence came our forebears.
Read MoreNYC Marathon 2016 | Haarlem Vue
Every year, we walk out to Mount Morris Park, with friends and neighbors, to watch the Leaders of the NYC Marathon pass (fly) by Mile 22. Here are some of the images.
It was a particularly exciting race this year with Mary Keitany winning the Women's group by nearly four minutes. And Ghirmay Ghebreslassie finishing in 2:07:51, the third fastest runner in the marathon's history, and at age 20, the youngest winner ever.
We were also witness to an unreported act of kindness. One of the Leaders, Marathon runner Musa Babo Ido (Bib 210), severely cramped-up at Mile 22 with uncertainty whether he would be able to continue. An experienced (fifteen marathons) but unparticipating septuagenarian man, a stranger, emerged from the crowd, took off his sweater and gave it to Mr Ido to keep him warm in the event that Mr Ido may have to walk to the finish. Mr Ido finished twelfth with a time of 2:17:57.
The top-ten most (personally) influential music albums
It was difficult getting to just ten albums over a span of fifty years.
Read MoreGo'ment or Private Sector
in Politics
Once one has had to interact with the apparatchiks of the governmental regulatory cabal, it would be virtually impossible not to become, subsequently, a small government conservative.
Read MoreAre you horny?
Motorists no longer use the car horn to warn of impending danger, its intended purpose. Rather, it is used to convey the shrill, callow sentiments of frustration
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