Free Republic

...three decades of policies ... have landed young men of color at the top of all the wrong lists. They perform poorly in school even when their backgrounds are the same as their white counterparts and are overrepresented in jails and juvenile detention centers... ...Neither schools, churches, jails nor community groups have found an answer... ...on average, 60 percent of black male students do not graduate from high school, according to a study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

Why Morality Matters by Steven C. Bonta, Ph.D. It is my conviction that the greatest threat to our free republic is moral decline. It is becoming fashionable nowadays to discount or ignore completely the relationship between morality and political liberty. Perhaps this is because the deteriorating moral culture in the modern United States of America seeks to be its own justification. Freedom, some believe, can flourish independently of moral standards, as long as we allow every man uninhibited license in his so-called “personal lifestyle choices.” This badly flawed notion is going to be the death of our republic, unless...

NEW YORK - "Green Eggs and Ham" is an easy read. After all, the late Theodore Geisel, belovedly known as Dr. Seuss, wrote it after his editor challenged him to do a book in just 50 words. But have you tried to read it in Latin? Retitled "Virent Ova! Viret Perna!!" the Seuss classic has been rendered into Latin by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Inc. of Wauconda, Ill. The target audience is "people who took Latin in school and have fond remembrance of it, teachers and students who take Latin — and, of course, Seuss fans," Kelly Hughes, a spokeswoman for the...

<p>Citrus Heights real estate agent Natalie Centabar says she'd love to cut back to part-time work. Problem is, her phone won't stop ringing.</p> <p>Most often the caller is a first- or second-generation Latino looking to buy a house. And chances are good that the call is a result of just two sales Centabar made years ago, when she helped two Latino couples -- first-time buyers -- relocate here from the Bay Area. Their expanding ring of referrals now accounts for 95 percent of her business.</p>