Why I hate school but love education

Armistice Day | The Beacon

Anthony Gregory details how a day dedicated to peace was hijacked to give politicians cover to promote perpetual war.

Blame Woodrow Wilson | Antiwar Radio

Historian Jim Powell explains to Scott Horton how the American Empire began with Woodrow Wilson.

Let’s Forget 9/11 | The Daily Reckoning

Let’s Forget 9/11

Lawless America: The Movie update by Bill Windsor | Lawless America

The Case Against Taxpayer-Funded Crop Insurance | Reason

Why? For starters, it’s expensive, fraudulent, wasteful and a give away to corporations, says Baylen Linnekin.

Going Off Grid - Montana Style! | Alt-Market.com

Using a former pharmaceutical sales rep as an example, Brandon Smith shows how living in harmony with nature is not just for hippies anymore.

America, the law-crazed | The Orange County Register

John Stossel details how never in U.S. history have so many Americans been locked up for so little.

Are People Being Thrown Into Psychiatric Wards For Their Political Views? | Washington's Blog

Brandon Raub is the latest example of Soviet-style repression.

Biggest Businesses Run by College Dropouts | CNBC

For these 10 CEOs, leaving college was the doorway to success.

Is a State Run Gold Standard Really the Answer? | The Daily Bell

The Republican National Committee has the right idea, but the wrong solution.

Judge orders release of US Marine detained for Facebook posts | RT

Is "The Government" the Country? | Downsize D.C.

Not by a long shot, says Perry Willis.

Remember

Rooney On Lives Taken | 60 Minutes

America and Israel: Modern-day Spartas | theintelhub.com

The militarism embraced by both democracies will be their death kneel, says Stephen Lendman.

How the Kelly Thomas Killing Sparked a Citizen Revolt | Reason.com

Steve Greenhut uses a "contempt of cop" case in Fullerton, Calif. as a practical, if horrific, example of how regime change begins at home.

Mother’s Day, 2012, and We’re Still at War | LewRockwell.com

The intentions of the two women who started it over a century ago were otherwise says Murray Polner.

New leader announced for W.Va. State | Charleston Daily Mail

Northern Illinois University VP to become State's 10th president July 1; terms of contract not yet disclosed.

Hemphill named president at W.Va. State University | The Charleston Gazette

After 25 years of inept leadership, and finanical mismanagement, Northern Illinois University VP hopes to "rebrand" State.

Retiring WVSU president to speak at commencement | The Charleston Gazette

Carter to sing swan song at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Charleston Civic Center.

Arrested Development: The Criminalization of America’s Schoolchildren | The Rutherford Institute

For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation’s history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther than America’s public schools.

Reporter sues W.Va. State, president over FOIA requests | The West Virginia Record

CHARLESTON -- A freelance reporter is suing West Virginia State University for failing to satisfy repeated Freedom of Information Act requests.

Hazo W. Carter Jr., the president of West Virginia State University, was also named as a defendant in the suit.

On Aug. 17, 2011, Jay Lawrence Smith read in an article published in the Charleston Daily Mail of a study WVSU commissioned to help determine ways it could raise nearly $26 million in private funds, according to a complaint filed April 9 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

For more on this story, go to The West Virginia Record.

WVSU narrows presidential search to three | The Charleston Gazette

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Three candidates from outside West Virginia are on the shortlist for the top job at West Virginia State University.

After a four-month national search, members of the WVSU presidential search committee whittled down the candidates to Brian O'Harold Hemphill, vice president for student affairs at Northern Illinois University, Alicia L. Jackson, dean of the school of business at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, and Donna H. Oliver, president of Mississippi Valley State University.

"It's been a long process and this is an excellent array of candidates," said Larry Rowe, chairman of West Virginia State's Board of Governors. "I am very pleased with the level of education and experience of the final candidates and especially their enthusiasm for the university's mission."

The 15-member presidential search advisory committee -- comprising faculty, staff, students, business leaders and Board of Governors members -- formed in January to find a replacement for longtime university President Hazo Carter, who will step down June 30.

Carter announced in August that he would resign in June, one week after he received a vote of no confidence from the university's Faculty Senate. Many faculty members blamed Carter for West Virginia State's steep enrollment decline, for bungling community relations and fundraising, and steering the Institute-based school into a $3.5 million budget deficit.

He will continue to collect his full $167,444-a-year salary until 2014.

For more on this story, go to The Charleston Gazette.

Photos:  Alicia L. Jackson (top left) and Donna H. Oliver (bottom right) along with Brian O'Harold Hemphill  are the three finalists selected by the Board of Governor's presidential search advisory committee to replace Hazo W. Carter, Jr. as State's next president.  All three will be on campus next week to meet with faculty, staff, students and the public.

Violence Against Women Act Sanctions Rights Violations | The Beacon

Violence Against Women Act Sanctions Rights Violations

The First Amendment Needs a Rape Kit | Future of Freedom Foundation

Wendy McElroy provides a SANE analysis of recent violations.

WVSU panel to narrow field of presidential candidates | The Charleston Gazette

Board of Governors' presidential search advisory committee to hold closed-door meeting March 17, and travel to undisclosed location in Columbus, Ohio next week to interview potential finalists.-

National search begins for state higher ed chief | The Charleston Gazette

Replacement for Brian Noland expected by May.

Student Loans: America’s Next Debt Bomb | Openmarket.org

The kill radius is magnified by a dumbed-down curriculum says Hans Bader.

Gasoline Prices Are Not Rising, the Dollar Is Falling | Forbes

Louis Woodhill explains.

Jim Rogers: U.S. Presidential favorites clueless on economy | Reuters

Democracy versus Liberty | The Daily Bell

Tibor Machan explains the important difference your poli sci professor is wholly ignorant about.

12 Planks of Modern Survivalism | The Survival Podcast

Jack Spirko, host of The Survival Podcast, explains his core values for prepping.

Victory on SOPA: Lessons Learned | LewRockwell.com

Gary North chronicles the takedown.

SOPA and PIPA explained | The Khan Academy

How to file a Freedom of Information Act request in West Virginia | The Gilmer Free Press

The heroic Gilmer Free Press provides a primer.

Blackout Wednesday: The Time Has Come | Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom

Jeffrey Tucker, publisher and executive editor of Laissez-Faire Books, applauds Wikipedia, and other Internet sites for going dark today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act.

10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free | The Washington Post

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley reminds those in Washington, D.C. that for every finger pointed in judgment of other nations violating the rights of its citizens, there are others pointed back at them.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence- April 4, 1967

Judge dismisses breach of contract suit against W.Va. State | West Virginia Record

Suit filed last year alleging State backed out on deal bringing Jeezy to campus.

Is it time to leave? | Backwoods Home Magazine

Claire Wolfe weighs the pros and cons of expatriation.

Nullification: The Rightful Remedy trailer | Foundation for a Free Society

Why Governments Make War | Antiwar.com

P-O-W-E-R says Justin Raimondo.