Archive for March, 2009

Washington Just Doesn’t Get It. Now What?

Author: Cherilyn Bacon Eagar
March 24, 2009

 

Your Duty In A Free Republic
Just when we think it’s getting worse, it gets worse than worse

 

Now the Fed just made a decision to buy up and loan ourselves our own treasury bonds (…what?) and it has now printed massive amounts of money — I mean trillions – that doesn’t really exist (…when has that plan worked?), and at precisely the time when the G-20 are backing off and ditching the dollar. 

In the words of John Adams (from the Broadway show 1776)  “Is anybody there?  Does anybody care?  Does anybody see what I see?”

March 20, 2009

Friday, May 30, 2008

Guest Blog: IB Myth v. Fact Analysis

By Cherilyn Bacon Eagar
Director, World Class Education Research  

Since 2005, controversy has dogged the International Baccalaureate Programme. But does the criticism have merit? IBO has responded on their website.

This is my analysis. For each statement, below, I have answered TRUE, FALSE or PT/PF (partly true, partly false), and given a short explanation. Here is a more thorough document, complete with citations. I have compiled an even more extensive overview on the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. If readers would like more information they can contact me.

March 18, 2009

What happens after 9/11?  ”9/12,” according to national talk radio and Fox TV host Glenn Beck.  He is urging Americans to re-evaluate their core principles and values and to decide where they stand.  He asks us to reflect upon how we all felt the day after 9/11.  We were together.  We looked to God and to ourselves to take action to help each other.  He is encouraging projects to educate.