Every teacher in what is demonstrably the worst-performing school district in the state of Rhode Island – which is to a Texan little more than a glorified county, in truth – has been fired. The state’s tiniest, poorest city has become the center of a national battle over dramatic school reform. On the one side,…
Month: February 2010
Global warming? I think not. I…
Global warming? I think not. It is snowing in Central Texas again, with March just right around the corner. Snow day, anyone?
Texas Man Blows Stack, Slams Plane into IRS Building
What made Joe Stack, 53, a computer programmer with a history of trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, write a lengthy diatribe blasting the government in general and the IRS in particular, then deliberately take to the air and crash his private plane into an office building housing the IRS’ “office of last resort”, killing…
Pelosi: “Jack Murtha. We will …
Pelosi: “Jack Murtha. We will never see his like again.” Thank God for HUGE favors! 🙂 http://bit.ly/cMylme
It’s Too Late for Ken Starr to Regret Monica-gate
Ken Starr, the new president of Baylor University, will always and forever be best known as the dogged prosecutor of President Bill Clinton. His new job brings him back into the spotlight for the moment where the old questions continue to haunt him. Asked if he regretted the work he did as the independent counsel…
Things We Dare Not Do (and What That Says About Society)
Despite being married, 23-year-old Alyssa Branton was stalked for months by a much older man who recently shot her dead outside her office building after she refused his advances. Despite providing more than 70 pages of documentation detailing Roger Troy’s bizarre and unwanted behavior, Branton was denied the restraining order that might have saved her…
The FBI’s New Big Brother Plan
Privacy? Forget it now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is at it again. CNET reports that the FBI is working overtime to ensure that Internet service providers (ISPs) will be forced to retain records of their customers’ use of the ‘Net for years after the fact and to make those records available to government…