The great teachers love what they’re teaching, and you can’t love something you don’t know anymore than you can love someone you don’t know.–David McCullough David McCullough is of course a great American story teller, and his recent books on American history and biography–1776, John Adams, Truman–are classics. And I look forward to reading his […]
Archives for June 2011
It’s About Solvency, Stupid
The European governments and bankers must dispense with the notion that Greece has a liquidity problem and deal with the fact that the problem is one of solvency that will require major debt restructuring and major additional austerity measures, while it has no access to the credit markets. Again we see the absolute necessity of […]
Exit Gates
As Robert Gates plans his exit from distinguished service as Secretary of Defense, he has made a number of public appearances involving provocative comments on foreign and defense policy. His remarks in a speech that any President who considers committing significant ground troops to a land war in Asia or the Middle East “should have […]
Cries of Desperation
Everywhere one looks, there is the clash: the risk-takers and the risk-averse, the dynamists and the stasists, the taxpayers and the welfare recipients, the providers and the takers, the rent seekers and the free marketeers, etc., etc., etc. Much of this is playing out in the battles over union “rights”–in the right to work vs. […]
It’s Almost Over
Although Yogi would caution me that “it ain’t over ’til it’s over”, as we enter the last week of the special session of the 82nd Texas Legislature, it appears that our education reform coalition has successfully achieved its top priority for the session, which was the defense of HB 3, the comprehensive public school accountability […]