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AMERICAblogTV has posted a portion of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" where they discuss Mitt Romney 's Religion. I hope that "AmericablogTV" (or someone else) will post the rest of that segment. Some truly crazy stuff was said, by some truly stupid people. But before we go to the new video, lets hit the way-back machine. For the transcript of the original video go here .  Here is the transcript of just the religion part. If you count all the words you will see that there are 1,693 words that George Stephanopoulos devotes to investigating Mitt Romney's religion. George : "How does your faith inform your politics?" Mitt : "...I think religion is a separate sphere in terms of a particular brand of faith...But the particular doctrines of a church I don't think are a major part in a political sense." But George disagrees. He knows that Mitt Romney is a republican, and many people don't like Mo...

A World Without Public Schools If the consensus underlying American public education has disappeared, why shouldn't the institution? by David Gelernter 06/04/2007, Volume 012, Issue 36 Should America have public schools, or would we do better without them? Nothing is more important to this country than the transformation of children into educated American citizens. That's what public schools are for, and no institutions are better suited to the role--in principle. They used to fill it with distinction. But there's no reason we must have public schools. Granted, the public has a strong interest in educating America's children, at a cost that's divided equitably among all taxpayers and not borne by the parents of school-age children alone. But these requirements don't imply any need for public schools. We need an Air Force, and the Air Force needs planes. Taxpayers pay for the force and the planes. But the pilots are supplied directly by ...