YOUNG VOICES: We're giving up freedoms without getting any safer

In a previous column, I warned you that our public education system is being used against us. I warned you that the coming generation was being taught to not fear the government, but to fear freedom. Call me crazy, but in the time that has passed since then have we not allowed more and more …

YOUNG VOICES: Charter school HAST exceeded expectations

If you've read any of my previous columns, you'll know I'm no friend of public education. I used to have the same attitude toward charter schools.

YOUNG VOICES: More guns, laws won't keep us from cliff

We are on the verge of falling off a moral cliff.

YOUNG VOICES: Let's look at reasons for re-electing Obama

What is the best measure of economic growth? Is it an increase of the value of corporate stocks on Wall Street? Is it a decrease in the amount of petroleum imported? Is it a decrease in the number of people who are on unemployment?

YOUNG VOICES:It’s time we learned from our mistakes

How many times did you have to stick your hand into a fire to figure out that it would burn you? Once, maybe twice if you’re on the slow side? In 2008 America voted for “Change”. In that moment we also sowed the seeds of progressivism, just as we had done countless times before. The harvest …

YOUNG VOICES: Public schools are dumbing down America

There are some who say there is a worrying fusion of information and entertainment in America. I tend to think there is a worrying lack of information and overabundance of entertainment.

YOUNG VOICES: Communism is one step closer

Yet another victory has been achieved for the "common man" in the Indiana Statehouse. Finally, after six long years talking to the right people, state Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, has his wish: a smoking ban.