Betsy DeVos Signs Swiss Apprenticeship Agreement: Replace Academic Education With Workforce Training

By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. December 13, 2018

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and the secretaries of Labor and Commerce recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Swiss government to collaborate on apprenticeships and workforce development.

The Feds Begin Takeover of Private Enterprise & Workers

By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. August 2, 2018 

The federal government is poking its nose into filling blue-collar jobs for private businesses by training workers. Yet it has no constitutional authority for involvement in the private sector -- either by planning the economy or training the workforce.

Merge Federal Departments? Better to Abolish Them

By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. June 28, 2018 World Net Daily

President Donald Trump wants to combine the Education and Labor Departments into a single Department of Education and the Workforce. The DEW would “centralize and better coordinate Federal efforts to train the American workforce.” 

Let's be clear. It is not the role of federal government to train the American workforce. 

USDE Secretary DeVos Pushes America Toward World Governance

By Carole Hornsby Haynes September 26, 2018

In his speech to the United Nations assembly in New York, President Trump served notice that “...America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control, and domination.”

Despite knowing how the president feels about one-world government, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recently signed a declaration that places American education right in the center of the global agenda.

GOP Senator Cornyn Co-Sponsors Police State Bill

By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D July 6, 2018 

Recently Texas U. S. Senator John Cornyn signed onto the College Transparency Act of 2017 (S.1121) that will overturn the ban on a federal student data system and establish lifelong tracking of individuals by the federal government. Proponents of the bill are licking their chops, claiming that support from the second ranking GOP Senator signals passage. 

Is America A Democracy?

By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. April 27, 2018

It’s quite common nowadays to hear liberals and even uninformed conservatives call America a democracy. Yet we are neither a democracy nor a representative democracy.

By definition, in a democracy what the majority feels is the rule. The Founders described this scenario as “mobocracy.” Contrast that with a republic where the general population elects representatives who pass laws. The nation is governed by rule of law, not what the majority feels at a given moment.