Author: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • Book Promotion for “The Redemption of Don Juan Casanova” on Sale for $0.99

    American clubs like the one in this novel have been the center of a cultural struggle pitting the forces of hedonism, revelry, and sexual liberation against those of socio-sexual stability and control.

  • Corporate driven public education reform is destroying OUR children’s health and future

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: I was reading the latest issue of National Geographic Magazine when I saw the following paragraph and realized that the test obsessed corporate public education reform movement is threatening the health and future of most of America’s children. Daniel Stone wrote, “Hard on the Eyes: Rates of myopia have increased around…

  • Book Promotion for “My Splendid Concubine” on Sale for $0.99

    Originally posted on iLook China: “My Splendid Concubine” is based on a true story. A larger-than-life bronze statue of Robert Hart, ordered by the Emperor of China, was placed on the Bund in Shanghai, China to honor this Irishman, and it stood for several decades before the Japanese removed it during World War II and turned the metal into bullets. It took…

  • Has President Obama abused his Power by Vetoing a Bill passed by both Houses of Congress?

    Since Obama has been President, Congress has enacted 1,080 laws and Obama vetoed EIGHT, less than one percent

  • Alan Singer: Why Does Marco Rubio Sneer at Higher Education?

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Alan Singer, professor at Hofstra University, has discerned a disturbing pattern in Republican candidate Marco Rubio’s public comments: he is contemptuous of higher education. ? In fact, Singer says that Rubio has declared war on higher education. ? He writes: ? According to Senator Rubio, liberal arts colleges are “indoctrination camps” that are only…

  • John Lennon & Rosie and The Originals – Angel Baby

    Originally posted on The Immortal Jukebox: ‘[Angel Baby] … This is by a 15 year old girl from National City California named Rosie. This is going to be a hit Guys and Gals’ – DJ Alan Freed on K-Day Radio, November 1960. ‘This here is one of my all time favourite songs. Send my love to Rosie – wherever she…

  • Peter Greene on Our Clueless Business Leaders

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Peter Greene read the Fortune article about how business leaders are fighting valiantly to save Common Core, and he realized that they don’t have a clue about dealing with individual consumers or social media. They pour millions into creating astroturf groups and blogs without readers, but they don’t understand anything about education or the…

  • Tis the season for donating and contributing your money to scam artists and frauds

    Con artists may take advantage of your generosity this time of year with bogus charities posing as legitimate ones.

  • Is Tim Cook, the CEO of APPLE, ignorant or a fraud?

    For one room to hold all of the tool and die makers working in the United States, it would have to be at least 456 thousand square feet in size.

  • Things Are Not Going So Well for the Privatizers

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: It is true that they have a lot of money–Gates, Broad, Walton, Dell, Wasserman, Arnold, Helmsley, and about two dozen other foundations. Maybe more. And they have the U.S. Department of Education. But none of their big ideas is working. Study after study shows that charters on average do not produce higher test scores…