When I served as Chairman of Texas Business Leaders for Educational Choice during the 1998-99 Texas legislative biennium, I began most of my speeches and debates across the state with the following opening: “Let’s start with a basic premise about the school choice debate: No child should be left behind because of failure of the […]
Archives for July 2002
Thoughts On The Pledge
In a previous issue, I posed the question as to whether or not the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence (“all men are endowed by their Creator”, etc.) could be ratified by Congress today. It’s a rhetorical question, but one that again resonates in the wake of the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision on the […]
Truth In Labeling
In a world so steeped in postmodern confusion that a U. S. President must resort to a spin on the definition of the word “is”, it is not surprising that we have difficulty defining our enemies. Kathleen Parker has illustrated this confusion well in a recent essay in townhall.com in which she advises “you can’t […]
Voting With Their Feet
One of Houston’s larger companies and the world’s largest onshore drilling company, Nabors Industries, recently became the latest in a series of incorporating relocations of U. S. companies to offshore tax havens, Bermuda in this case. I have been struck by the responses to this trend from labor unions and public officials who seem to […]