The saga continues. As the title indicates, this is the third of a series of essays on the efforts to address the overhaul of Texas public school finance and search for a successor to the flawed “Robin Hood” system crafted by a series of special legislative sessions in the mid-1990’s. In the wake of District […]
Archives for September 2004
Election “Crunch Time”
As we enter the election home stretch, the central issue remains war and peace, and it’s still Bush’s to lose. And if Karl Rove and the Bush brain trust allow Kerry and the Democrats to get away with the demagoguery of the Democratic convention message on war leadership, shame on the Republican Party.Charles Kesler makes […]
Swift Boats And Old Scars
Of all the heat and light sparked by the campaign of the Swift Boat Veterans to discredit John Kerry, I have been struck most by two perceptive essays written one day apart by David Broder of The Washington Post and Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal. Essentially, both of these pieces cut through the […]