I never thought I’d welcome black helicopters on the horizon. Black helicopters with jackbooted storm troopers in blue helmets, empowered to scan children’s tender corneas and report to the United Nations. Bring that on. That’s generally how discourse has devolved regarding the Common Core movement embraced by a host of states. Beating…
I’ve never been one to dwell on anniversaries. But what the heck. Last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act came in the sesquicentennial year of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln wanted the latter a year earlier. He made a preliminary declaration in 1862. He said it…
Wrong. Incorrect. Erroneous. Fallacious. Bogus. Choose your modifier for the headline-a-palooza the other day that alarmed (much of) a nation. Breathless were the reports: “Obamacare to cost 2.3 million jobs.” It took many variations, through the Wall Street Journal, through UPI, Politico, and of course the foamy tea partisans of Fox News. …
At one time in my life I had no use for it. Hated it. I hated what snow did to the morning newspaper, how it crimped my driveway basketball dominance, how it curbed mobility in all forms except on skis. And now? Love it. Can’t get enough of it. Snow, snow, snow.…