A few years ago back in peacetime — yes, way back then — I jokingly wrote that we needed a war to distract policy makers from their chronic top-down meddling in public schools. George W. Bush had just ascended to the presidency. His flight-deck mission then: to become the nation’s school superintendent. After all, he’d…
Wacky, bewitching Michele Bachmann, whose candidacy is melting, melting, actually has offered something of substance to voters just before she becomes a vapor. She’s called the hand that has suddenly doused her campaign with her own tea-steeped brew, the hand of Rick Perry. So doing, she's made a very important point. …
Do the geese talk all the way? It’s work enough — winging from Canada’s marshes to America’s heartland — without also flapping one’s bill nonstop. That appears to be the case, however. All I know is that when the Canada geese are over my head in in Colorado, south-bound now, they…
It’s a dirty shame that the Pew Research Center, in seeking a head count of extremism among Muslims in the United States, didn’t seek the same of extreme Christians. You might have noticed the story — the polling organization, at 10 years post-9/11, getting a sense of what American Muslims are thinking. …