Schools Suck…
by …in part…because of laughable administrative decisions like this one: Writing “I love Alex” on a school gymnasium wall brought a 12-year-old the same punishment as …
Op-Ed Blog
Spring Victim’s Suicide
David Ritcheson, the young man from my former home town who was brutalized by a pair of Nazi wannabes last year, has killed himself. According …
The Ethanol Problem
David Broussard recently penned a piece describing the problem with the push to use ethanol as a “renewable energy source”, one that is supposed to …
Freedoms
A while back George Will wrote a column titled “Valuing Speech” that is apropos for Independence Day, I think, and another discussion about the relative …
Science == Prosperity
The National Academies of Science recently produced a report titled “Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: The Science of the World Around Us” and in it says …
Elder Care
Reading Ken Connor’s article “Embryo to Elderly—A Consistent Life Ethic” I was reminded of my great-grandmother. She lived with my grandparents during my early childhood …
Republicans Fumbling Immigration
Republicans have been whining and dragging their feet on this topic for years. I fail to understand why, unless their support for American businesses extends …
Why Won’t Congress Do What I Want?
That’s the question that’s burning up, that’s literally on fire at many of the so-called “progressive” – liberal – chatterbox blogs these days. It’s an interesting question, …
Earmarks, the Other Pork Flavor
Speaking of politicians who change their tune as soon as they reach office, what ever happened to Democrats’ promises to run an open and transparent …
Conservatism
Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says that Republicans desperately want to become fiscal conservatives again: In the good old days when Republicans ruled Congress, …