The 84th Session of the Texas Legislature is in full swing and no policy issue under consideration is more important than education in general and PreK-12 education in particular. In fact, it could be said that Texas is at a crossroad in determining which direction it wants to go in furthering its public education reform […]
Archives for February 2015
France Has Its 9/11
From all the many responses that I read to the January 7 terror attack and massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, I will highlight a few and add my own thoughts. First, in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who knows a thing or two about real terror, she […]
Kissinger and World Order
I’ll open by saying that, although I always thought he was brilliant and I enjoyed meeting and visiting with him over 30 years ago, I didn’t always agree with Henry Kissinger’s conduct of foreign policy, particularly the notion of detente that he and Richard Nixon practiced in policy with the Soviets. But his new book, World […]
Don’t Politicize the Internet
The Internet was the subject of an essay in the very first edition of The Texas Pilgrim. In April 2000 I wrote: Harold Furchtgott-Roth, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, feels strongly that the exploitation of telecommunications and e-commerce competition can’t be centrally managed and that we should allow thousands of “flowers to bloom” […]
Obama’s Ill-Advised Community College Plan
The free community college plan introduced by President Obama was not the worst proposal he has made this year, but it’s bad enough, for a variety of reasons. It has already been well-covered by many, but I will mention a few that might have been missed: * In Texas, 51% of high school graduates must […]