So I just found out for the first time today that taxation wasn't really a very big motivator for the Revolutionary War. This is the latest in a series of revelations I have discovered on my own (not in school) which directly contradict what I was taught as a youngster. It's too much.

It's one thing to teach a simplified version of history for kids, but it's another to teach an incorrect version.

It's one thing to teach a view you believe and then later have it disproved by revisionist historians (darn useless revisionists), but it's another to teach kids incorrect ideas that are known to be incorrect.

And guess what? None of these misconceptions I've endured were corrected in my college classes. I had to research this stuff on my own, just out of personal interest.  Who knows how many other things I learned in school are way off base, but will never be corrected?

I'm talking about the failure of the public education system. I'm talking about the wretched failure of liberalized universities to do any good at all. Bah, whatever. I don't want to go into any more details. It's every man for himself these days. You have to find your own truth, because no one will hand it out to you.

Up next: why healthcare reform will fail, and how corporate buy-outs by the government are going to be the downfall of our economy.