When the almost all-black Texas Western team shocked an all-white Kentucky squad in the 1966 NCAA men’s basketball championship, the announcers did not report, “A stunning victory for the negroes.” No, they remarked on a stunning team feat. When Emily Neimann hit her fifth of five majestic three-pointers to…
Dwight Eisenhower puts all of his political capital on the line to advance an audacious notion: a national highway system. He is rebuffed when states refuse to play along. They complain that even if the federal government pays 90 percent, these will be their highways to maintain, with costs associated. They want no part of…
Damn the evidence. Full speed ahead. Damn the costs. Full speed ahead. Nothing — not legitimate questions about efficacy, not staggering costs amid general budget bloodletting — will stay the maddening march toward more standardized testing for America’s school children. In Texas, school districts brace for $9.8 billion in budget cuts which…
Observe now the touting of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for president. Many who can’t find the Muscatatuck River on a map will wonder. Mitch who? But Daniels is no nobody. As a poly-sci entity, he is much known. He was George W. Bush’s first budget director in Washington. As president,…