Ron Paul launches his own home-school curriculum
as you can read in this Daily Caller article. If you want, you can go directly to RonPaulCurriculum.com where you will read
Welcome to the Ron Paul Curriculum
Here, you and your children can get an education in liberty like no other. I invite parents to take courses and participate on forums -- to get the education they never had. Parents do not pay for the individual courses that they purchase for their children.
Here, students learn the basics of Western Civilization and Western liberty -- how it was won, how it is being lost, and how it will be restored. (Not can . . . will.)
Students also learn the basics of American history, the United States Constitution, and American geography.
They get two courses on free market economics. They get two courses on government, including a
In the end of majority rule?, E. J. Dionne's column in today's Washington Post, we read
All because of the filibuster.
In theory.
But let's raise the percentage but make it worse, at least in theory.
The filibuster makes matters worse. It’s theoretically possible for 41 senators representing less than 11 percent of the population to block pretty much anything.This is a product of the Constitutional provision of equal representation of the states in the U. S. Senate. Only in theory, each of those Senators could have been elected with just over 50% of those who actually voted. And the proportion of those age and otherwise elegible to vote is usually less than 60% (even in Presidential years it has rarely topped 60%), that would be less than 60% of 11%, and of that less than 1/2 in each state.In other words, Senators elected by less than 3% of the eligible voters in the United States have the power to prevent things from getting done.
All because of the filibuster.
In theory.
But let's raise the percentage but make it worse, at least in theory.
