Beverly K. Eakman

Latest by Beverly K. Eakman in Chronicles

• News

  March 2009

  School of Rape: From Health Class to Hotties

  America’s educational landscape is being transformed under the cover of “health.” This transformation began with sex education, which once was relegated to a subunit of physiology that addressed the science of human reproduction.

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• News

  January 2009

  Rich Man, Poor Man

  When the late Tony Snow stepped down from his position as President George W. Bush’s press secretary, he explained that he simply could not “make it on $168,000 a year.” The comment didn’t play well in Peoria.

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• Vital Signs

  December 2008

  Homeschooling as Mental Illness

  On March 10, California’s 2nd Appellate Court virtually banned homeschooling. Then on March 11, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene of the Centers for Disease Control announced epidemic levels of sexually transmitted diseases among teenage girls (one in four).

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• Cultural Revolutions

  June 2008

  Election 2008 Guide

  As I was downloading oldies onto my computer the other day, I found a classic hit from the 1950’s: “Yakety-Yak” by the Coasters. Back in the 50’s, every kid in America—white, black, Hispanic, or Asian; native or naturalized—identified with that song.

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• American Proscenium

  May 2008

  “Clear®”: The Price of a Civil Airport Shakedown

  I first read about it in the newspaper: a new concept in speeding up airline security called Clear®. The idea is to pre-inspect, via extensive background checks, passengers traveling by air so that bottlenecks in the security lines can be eliminated, and “cleared” passengers, whisked through.

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• News

  December 2007

  Clueless in the Congress: The Reauthorization of a Reckless Bill

  The Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act are up for reauthorization again. This process typically entails legislators tweaking the bill—a caveat here, a zinger there. Almost always, it translates into more money.

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• News

  September 2005

  Outsourcing Parenthood

  Two categories of parents emerged in the 1970’s: those who wanted to rear children and those who merely wanted to have them.

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• Vital Signs

  August 2005

  The Legacy of Sandra Dee

  A first-wave Baby Boomer, I grew up the 1950’s and early 60’s. We teenage girls yearned to look like Sandra Dee (a.k.a. Alexandra Zuck), who passed away on February 20, 2005.

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• News

  April 2005

  Final Solution

  Public education exacerbates today’s toxic youth subculture. The combined forces of advertisers, television, teen magazines, and internet spammers have lured our nation’s youth into lives of promiscuity.

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• Vital Signs

  March 2005

  Has America Lost Her Moral Gag Reflex?

  Since 1935, a branch of psychiatry specializing in hereditary illnesses and abnormalities known as “behavioral eugenics” has been warning of rampant mental illness.

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• Vital Signs

  January 2005

  The Death of David Reimer: A Case Study in Psychiatric Politics

  David Reimer, the 38-year-old man who was raised as a girl (“Brenda”) following a botched circumcision in infancy, committed suicide on May 4, 2004.

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• News

  October 2004

  What? Are You Crazy?

  A nationwide initiative has been quietly in the making since 2002. Conceived in Texas, apparently with President George W. Bush’s enthusiastic blessing, there are now some 27 sites around the country piloting various parts of it.

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• View

  September 2004

  Blindsided by Education’s Leftists

  Michael Moore, the leftist director of Fahrenheit 9/11, got one thing right when he proclaimed at a June 24 press conference that, despite the Republican control of the White House and Congress, America is liberal. It is a fact.

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• News

  August 2004

  Anything That Ails You

  As far back as the 1970’s, shortly after the feminist movement was launched, it was estimated that as many as 30 million American women were taking tranquilizers.

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• Vital Signs

  January 2004

  Terms of Empowerment

  Imagine, if you can, thousands of parents last January insisting that the Fairfax County, Virginia, school board distribute a 169-question sex survey to their 13-, 15-, and 17-year-olds.

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• Vital Signs

  September 2003

  Real Education Reform

  Over the years, the NEA has amassed some 300 policy positions, itemized as annual resolutions and set out in a published legislative agenda. The publication purportedly reflects all educators’ beliefs on assorted issues, from homosexual advocacy and criticism of capital punishment to abortion “rights.”

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• Vital Signs

  June 2003

  Making a Killing

  Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton is breath-ing new life into the popular perception of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a “disease”—a chemical imbalance that requires a stabilizing, “counter-balancing” agent such as Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, or another name-brand amphetamine to correct a defective brain.

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• Vital Signs

  April 2003

  The SLA and the Child Experts

  If there ever was a case to be made against the therapeutic approach to childrearing—packaged as “parenting” by three decades of child psychologists—the pathetic image of four aging, 1970’s-era radicals, who gave themselves the silly name “Symbionese Liberation Army,” was it.

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• Vital Signs

  January 2003

  The Slippery Slope of Safety

  Keeping up with technology is tricky. Sometimes, you find information in a press release; other times, you ascertain the full measure of what is going on through obscure legal and scientific papers, last-minute legislative “riders,” and seemingly inconsequential blurbs in the foreign press.

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• Vital Signs

  October 2002

  Implanted IDs: Click Here!

  Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) announced in March that it had filed for FDA approval of its tiny ID implant, VeriChip, and the Florida-based company performed its first commercial implant on three local children on May 10, promising “easy access of medical rec-ords.”

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