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LeishaC Wrote: Dec 04, 2012 3:57 PM
There are a few of us in the school system crying as voices in the wilderness. This column will be part of my unit on Animal Farm, which i teach as a scathing indictment of socialism. I counter that with teaching the virtues of capitalism with sources like this, Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell.
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