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Thomas Catenacci of the Washington Free Beacon reports on a disturbing aspect of climate alarmism. NASA’s “Climate Kids” webpage offers fun environment-related educational activities, films, and video games for children…
Christine Rosen offers ideas about rebuilding trust in public institutions. Distrust of elites, cultural institutions, political parties, and even our neighbors is at an all-time high. Are we fated to…
Donna King reports for Carolina Journal Online on a state commission under Gov. Roy Cooper that agreed to pay a six-figure sum to the federal government in connection with AmeriCorps…
James Bovard explains for Wall Street Journal readers why he’s dubious about efforts to expand AmeriCorps. A sort of domestic Peace Corps, AmeriCorps was created in 1993 to place adult…
Want to find a poster “child” for the entitlement mentality? Michelle Malkin might point you to 30-year-old Stanley Thornton Jr., a self-proclaimed “Adult Baby.” Profiled on a recent National Geographic…
If yesterday’s N&R front-pager perfectly illustrates that the so-called federal stimulus is a total joke: And there was that bright spot in the job arena over at Housing Greensboro. The…
Courtney Gauthier, an AmeriCorps/VISTA employee, works at UNCA’s Center for Diversity Education and serves on the Think About It Committee, which has launched a new campaign this semester. The campaign…
The fired former inspector general for the Corporation for National and Community Service says claims from the Obama Administration that Walpin was “dazed and confused” at board meetings are a…
Politicizing inspectors general, sending millions of taxpayer dollars to cronies, doing the bidding of big contributors. I thought these were things we’d never see again after the “culture of corruption”…
James Bovard takes a very critical look at Americorps (which Congress and Obama plan to greatly expand) in this article. Does this program do any good? Little or none, answers…
Volunteering for charitable work is great, so long as it is voluntary and not government-coerced. Churches and nonprofits do it much better than the government — Katrina is the best…
From the Herald-Sun of Durham comes this headline: Food stamp enrollment too low here, officials are told To help solve this “problem,” recommendations include: – Having food sellers print information…