Posted in Sweet on Oct 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Sounds simple enough, huh? The DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is asking that good teachers be eligible to receive up to $100,000 a year and bad teachers, “regardless of tenure,” be subject to removal.
Common sense stuff in most sectors of the economy. Sadly, a novel concept in our public schools. [...]
Posted in Random Babble, Sweet on Oct 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Yep, according to the latest science, here. They’re “stubborn” because their minds are being underused. Perhaps that’s why Liberty Girl is so fiesty?
Posted in Sweet on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in Random Babble, Sweet on Sep 23rd, 2008 5 Comments »
This weekend I had the privilege to visit Central High in Little Rock with Liberty Girl, the school that – as she points out in the previous post – 51 years ago today was an international focal point for racial justice. Two ideas quickly stood out in my mind as I watched video clips [...]
Posted in Factoid, Featured, Sweet on Sep 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
On this day in 1957, three years after the US Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional - something earlier found to be kosher in Plessy v. Ferguson - nine African-American students were escorted by the National Guard inside an all-white high school, Little Rock Central.
However, on this day, the Nine faced grave [...]
Posted in Sweet on Sep 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Two days ago, I wrote about Colorado’s Amendment 49.
An eloquent, handsome, bald man, Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, explains his support for Amendment 49 to the Rocky Mountain News editorial board (see video below). The editorial board agrees with him, pass Amendment 49. Read their take on Amendment 49
Watch Caldara speak out.
Posted in Sweet on Sep 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
For a scathing review of Klein’s latest attack on capitalism — The Shock Doctrine — see the eloquently written piece Dead Left by Jonathan Chait, senior editor at the liberal New Republic magazine.
Posted in Random Babble, Sweet on Sep 5th, 2008 7 Comments »
For those of you skeptical with health savings account (HSA) allow me to share a personal story.
Yesterday, I woke up with horrific knee pain. Two days ago, I decided to run three miles after being away from the gym for three weeks. Why? I signed up to run a 5K in Arizona.
However, I have had [...]
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