Author: Doug

September 20, 2014 Ms Marilyn Atler National Sexual Violence Resource Center 123 North Enola Dr. Enola, PA 17025 Dear Ms Atler The NFL and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center have a unique opportunity now to redirect the spotlight of attention from individual instances of domestic violence to the general lack of education on family… Continue reading Letter to Violence Prevention Agencies on Parenting

September 20, 2014 Mr. Jerry Richardson, Owner/Founder Carolina Panthers 800 South Mint St. Charlotte, NC 28202 Dear Mr. Richardson: The Panthers and the NFL, have a unique opportunity now to redirect the spotlight of attention from individual instances of domestic violence to the general lack of education on family health. The No Child Left Behind… Continue reading Letter on Licensing Parents to the NFL

September 2, 2014 Mr. Matthew Weir Director, Rulings and Agreements Internal Revenue Service, Exempt Organizations Room 4024 P.O. Box 2508 Cincinnati, OH 45201 Dear Mr. Weir: Colleges are tax-exempt on the assumption that higher education is a public service. This assumption may have been conspicuously valid in the past, but it is not so now,… Continue reading Letter on Taxing Colleges for Undelivered Public Service

Dear Senator: I ask that you consider a matter that will benefit all residents of Connecticut, but particularly those of low-income. In America, we are free to shop for whatever we want, except education. Parents certainly have more choice now than in the past about where to send their kids to school, but nowhere near… Continue reading Letter on College Vouchers

September 2, 2014 Mr. George Jepsen Child Advocate 999 Asylum Avenue, 1st Floor Hartford, CT 06105 Dear Ms Eagan: Connecticut football coaches teach hard and clean football. They don’t want anyone injured and they do all that they can to protect players. But football is a collision sport, and collisions are inherently dangerous. Blocking and… Continue reading Letter to Protect Children from Collision Sports

A license is required to become an adoptive or foster parent. The same should apply to becoming a birth parent. In all of life, there’s no activity so important as parenting. Non-humans do it perfectly by instinct. Our great grandparents did the same. But soon after the invention of television and the mall, kids were… Continue reading Parenting Without a License

If you’re an American paying private college costs, you’re paying twice: once to your private college, and once to your state’s tax collector to support public colleges. It’s worse than unfair. It’s counterproductive. State colleges have a captive audience. Kids attend not because they like what’s offered, but because they can’t afford an alternative. There’s… Continue reading Vouchers Would Improve Colleges

For the almost 4 billion years that organisms have lived on earth, they’ve been governed by brutality. The strong devoured the weak, and, in so doing, ensured that only the strong reproduced. From the origin of civilization some 10,000 years ago, people formed governments to administer the law of the jungle. But some 3,000 years… Continue reading Collegiate Democracy

From the youngest ages, kids learn to enjoy playing war and glorifying warriors. Fighting ranks among the most common forms of video entertainment for kids, and weapons rank among the most common toys. Violence against people, as in football, hockey, lacrosse, boxing, and auto racing, is portrayed as sport. Violence against animals, as in hunting,… Continue reading World Peace

Colleges are tax-exempt because higher education is assumed to be a public service, bur that assumption is worthy of scrutiny.Colleges enable the inventions that fuel health care and the economy, but both are in ruins. America ranks last among peer nations in health (National Research Council, 2013, “U. S. Health in International Perspective: Shortened Lives,… Continue reading Tax Colleges to Get Public Service