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Even Children Should Know Their Rights

Danielle S. McLaughlin | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada
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Danielle S. McLaughlin

In 2011 the United Nations and all the countries in it adopted an agreement on human rights education and training. The agreement says that everyone has the right to an education that must include education about human rights -- even snarly kids. So why might this principal, and other educators like her, want to prohibit human rights education in her school?

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I Know FDR and Obama's No FDR

Conrad Black | Posted 04.23.2012 | Canada
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Conrad Black

It is outrageous that some commentators have compared President Obama to Franklin D. Roosevelt (not to mention the president's own immodest favourable comparison of himself to FDR and Lyndon Johnson and, for good measure, Abraham Lincoln).

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