The Casper Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyoming, published a pro-global warming editorial by one Robin Groose, associate professor at the University of Wyoming, who became so disturbed about our Petition and the editorial that Zachary and I wrote in The Wall Street Journal that he included an attack on Zachary's home school education in his editorial. In reply, I submitted the following letter to the editor:

"In his editorial of May 10, Robin Groose, billed as a monthly columnist for your newspaper and as associate professor at the University of Wyoming, denigrates the academic achievements of my son Zachary Robinson whom he labels as the 'first victim' of our homeschooling program.

"It happens that, after completing his home schooling, Zachary scored 1480 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and received college Advanced Placement in calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, and so many other subjects that he entered Oregon State University as a junior and received his BS in chemistry in two years. He then scored in the 95th percentile on the Graduate Record Exams prior to entering graduate school. The 'second victim,' his brother Noah, scored 1400 on the SAT and received Advanced Placement in calculus, physics, chemistry, biology, and several other subjects, so he also is expected to complete his degree in chemistry in two years.

"Since he is a professor, Robin Groose has no doubt taken the SAT, GRE, and AP exams himself. I challenge Professor Groose to publish his own personal scores on these exams in your newspaper along side those of Zachary and Noah - scores that we will be happy to provide in certified copy.

"Professor Groose's article also contains numerous false and misleading statements about our Institute and about 'global warming' - a subject concerning which he obviously has little knowledge, but many prejudices. The true 'victims' here are actually your readers who are being subjected to junk science and smear rhetoric masquerading under Robin Groose's academic affiliation.'' We have not heard from Robin Groose or the Casper Star-Tribune.

• "The National ID Card'' in The Ron Paul Freedom Report 2, No. 8, September 1998, published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, P.O. box 1776, Lake Jackson, TX 77566, states that we may soon be required to show our government papers in order to move from place to place, conduct business, or even receive medical care. This is being pushed by both Democrats and Republicans.
  
  Congressman Ron Paul points out that freedom requires privacy. An ID card destroys that privacy. Is it surprising that both parties tried to keep Dr. Paul from returning to Congress in 1996?
  
  
• "Child Welfare or Family Trauma'' by Elna Neuman, Insight, May 9, 1994 reports that each year the children of 700,000 American families are investigated for child abuse - including strip searches; interrogation by social workers, police officers, and prosecutors; psychological testing; and sometimes placement in foster homes - and then released for lack of evidence of abuse. Federal tax money transfers to states in 1998, in proportion to the number of children seized by "authorities,'' (people paid with this money) is over $2 billion.
  
  Essentially, state government social service workers are now in the kidnaping-for-pay business - under the guise of protecting children.

• Early Warning Report by Richard Maybury, October 1998, available from Henry-Madison Research, P.O. Box 84908, Phoenix, AZ 85071. In this issue, Maybury repeats his two laws, which he argues must be implemented for a free economy to exist - and which are not implemented in the countries of Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe, which are, therefore, unable to make freedom work. These laws are:
  
  1. Do all you have agreed to do.
  
  2. Do not encroach on other persons or their property.
  
  Richard Maybury's "Chaostan'' model by which he explains the political situation in those countries has worked remarkably well and has made lots of money for subscribers who followed his advice.
  
  
• "Educational Decarceration" by Daniel Hager in The Freeman, 48, No. 7 (1998), published by The Foundation for Economic Education, 30 South Broadway, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York 10533.
  
  The irreversible collapse of tax-financed public education is accel-lerating and becoming widely recognized.
  
  
• "The Police State of Medicine: Reflections on a Case of Regulatory Abuse'' by William E. Hurwitz in the Medical Sentinel 3, No. 4, available from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, P.O. Box 13648, Macon, GA 31208-3648.
  
  It is becoming increasingly difficult for American physicians to prescribe pain killers even for patients who badly need them. Government regulation is gradually depriving us of medical science.