Are you ready to be entertained while you hear about politics, the economy, education, capitalism and free speech? Let’s Pump Up the Volume!
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is an American political commentator, syndicated columnist, and best-selling author. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events. Known for her controversial and confrontational style, Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to “stir up the pot” and, unlike “broadcasters”, does not “pretend to be impartial or balanced”.
Coulter has made frequent guest appearances on many television and radio talk shows, including The Today Show, Hannity and Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, American Morning, Crossfire, Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically Incorrect, The Fifth Estate, The Sean Hannity Show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and Mike Gallagher.
Her most recent book “Guilty Liberal “Victims” and Their Assualt on America
Let’s talk about Education and Public Schools.
We’ll hear different opinions this evening on how to tackle education. Our own Northampton County Superintendent Mr. Bowmaster is scheduled to join us. Other guests this evening that will be discussing Education will be Chancellor Michelle Rhee from Washington D. C.’s public school system and also Neal P. McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute and Dan Lips from the Heritage Foundation.
“The U.S. spends more per pupil on elementary and high school education than most developed nations. Yet it is behind most of them in the math and science abilities of its children. Young Americans today are less likely than their parents were to finish high school. This is an issue that is warping the nation’s economy and security, and the causes are not as mysterious as they seem. The biggest problem with U.S. public schools is ineffective teaching, according to decades of research.
Rhee has promised to make Washington the highest-performing urban school district in the nation, a prospect that, if realized, could transform the way schools across the country are run. She is attempting to do this through a relentless focus on finding–and rewarding–strong teachers, purging incompetent ones and weakening the tenure system that keeps bad teachers in the classroom. This fall, Rhee was asked to meet with both presidential campaigns to discuss school reform. In the last debate, each candidate tried to claim her as his own, with Barack Obama calling her a “wonderful new superintendent.” Time 11/26/08
Neal McCluskey is the associate director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. Prior to arriving at Cato, McCluskey served in the U.S. Army, taught high school English, and was a freelance reporter covering municipal government and education in suburban New Jersey. More recently, he was a policy analyst at the Center for Education Reform. McCluskey is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education, and his writings have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, and Forbes. In addition to his written work, McCluskey has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and numerous radio programs. McCluskey holds a master’s degree in political science from Rutgers University.
Dan Lips is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation, where he researches and writes on federal and state education issues.
His research has been widely cited and he has appeared on major media outlets. His commentaries have appeared in print and online venues such as National Review Online, The Houston Chronicle, and The Baltimore Sun. Lips also has testified before congressional and state legislative committees. In 2008, he was appointed to the D.C. State Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
On Free Speec and Protecting Capitalism from Eco-Tourism we’ll hear from Dr. Onkhar Ghate a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Center. He teaches at the Institute’s Objectivist Academic Center, speaks on philosophy and Objectivism across North America, and publishes scholarly articles on Ayn Rand’s fiction and philosophy. His op-eds have been printed in many places, including the Houston Chronicle, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Providence Journal, the San Diego Business Journal, the Orange County Register, and BusinessWeek.com. He has given numerous radio interviews, including BBC radio, and has appeared as a television guest on CNBC, KCET, Fox News Channel and the CBS Evening News. Dr. Ghate received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Calgary. We’ll discuss his articles The Fear to Speak Comes to America’s Shores and Who Will Defend Industry from Eco-Terrorism?
Worried about the Economy? Let’s talk to
| R. David Ranson, President and Director of Research at H.C. Wainwright Economics. |
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Prior to becoming a general partner of Wainwright in 1977, Mr. Ranson taught economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has been an assistant to then Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, and a member of George P. Shultz’s personal staff at the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his service in Washington, he was a member of the Boston Consulting Group. David Ranson has addressed audiences and published articles on a wide range of economic and investment topics, and has provided testimony to a number of Congressional committees. His work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. He holds an M.A. and B.Sc. degrees from Queen’s College, Oxford, and an M.B.A. in finance and a Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Chicago. |
We will also hear the highlights from the interview with Prof. Richard Epstein from the University of Chicago School of Law on Zoning, Economics and Protectionism.
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