Liberty is for me…

The government school story of the day comes from Tifton, Georgia. A teacher bites a child and is punished with a week off of work. The child’s family is outraged, yet their only recourse is to appeal to the County Board of Education. The Board says it can’t do anything. Several [...]

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A voucher school did this?
Of course not. It was a government school.
A 13-year-old boy was forced to pee in a lunch box during class as his peers and teacher watched. The two heart-warming conclusions to this absurd tale: 1. the child is still forced to continue going to this school. [...]

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Missouri bureaucrats are against a tax-credit program that would give special needs students scholarships to attend better schools.
Here is their reasoning:
It would use public dollars for private purposes. - Independence Superintendent Jim Hinson
Using tax credits in this manner is not the right way to use public dollars. It concerns me that if this was approved, [...]

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So, in Texas bigger is obviously better, well not in this case. Less would be preferred.
The San Antonio Express reports that Texans have paid $2.4 million dollars for shitty bureaucrats, Superintendents, to leave the school system.

Why should taxpayer money be used to compensate the departure of a shitty bureaucrat? Why not have their fancy [...]

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I love cable and the internet.
However, I hate Comcast, when something gets screwed up with their internet service customer service is inept. We are on hold forever and usually know more than the phone rep and its just so frustrating.
There have been times where I just wanted to punch someone in the face. Well, one [...]

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Background:
Yesterday, 40,000 teachers (all union card holding members) went on strike, 11 of the 14 arrested protesters were teachers. El Dia, the Spanish paper in Puerto Rico, reports only 161,688 students of 523,399 enrolled students attended school yesterday.
Over the past several months, the teachers union has being negotiating with the state officials collective bargaining, cap [...]

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So, the new buzz is that Obama is jumping on the school voucher wagon. But I don’t buy it!
His Track Record
In 2002, he said this: “I do not believe in vouchers.”
Folks, his words not mine.
Then in a 2004 debate, he said, “He opposed government vouchers and tax credits to [...]

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After all the public hype, water boarding was declared by the DOJ illegal. How convenient that they regulated torture before Congress voted that it too was illegal.
Nevertheless, I applaud their decision.
However, we know torture and water boarding will continue to happen. For the mere reason that when presidents grant officials presidential powers they can [...]

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