At the height of the Obamacare rollout debacle in mid-November 2013, Mark Shields said this on the PBS Evening News: “This is beyond the Obama Presidency. This may be the end of liberalism as an instrument of social justice, the major difference between the Democratic and Republican Parties”. Upon hearing this, I remember having the […]
Archives for April 2014
The New SAT: More Dumbing Down?
The big announcement in March by David Coleman of The College Board on the new SAT to be released in 2016 was met with mixed reviews, but mostly negative from the observers in whom I have the most confidence. The “improvements”, according to Coleman, are designed to better reflect what students have actually studied in […]
The Recovery Lumbers On
We are clearly at a point where our sanity is being put to the acid test, which is to keep doing the same things to jump start the economy five years after the end of the last recession and expect a different result. Some very bright and perceptive people have written and spoken voluminously on […]
Leave U. S. Internet Oversight Alone
What could we be thinking? To abandon our role as sole overseer of the Internet domain name system is not only dumb, it’s dangerous. Can you imagine how the power of sharing this oversight would almost certainly be used by China or Russia, just to pick a couple of our great friends for example? And […]
The Gay Fascists Strike Again
The resignation of Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla in response to a firestorm of protest promoted by gay activists over his donation six years ago to an organization advocating California Proposition 8 has now become the best example yet of the out of control fascism of the left. Any suggestion that these people have […]
Recent Books
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Allen C. Guelzo As with any subject that has been so widely covered as the Civil War, one wonders what else is left to be said, but Guelzo covers not only the major personalities and battles, but also the politics, religion, gender, race, […]