There were no surprises for me and, as President Obama suggested, nothing new in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, just all the moral clarity and proper identification of the enemy one would expect from a leader whose country daily faces an existential threat that is real and committed to its annihilation. And […]
Archives for March 2015
Obamacare Back in Court
In King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court has another, probably final, opportunity to gut the Affordable Care Act, but will it? I am not an attorney, but it seems that the legal logic is clear and the evidence is compelling that the intent of the letter and spirit of the law is that only exchanges […]
They Simply Don’t Get It
In an essay entitled “Our Plan for Countering Violent Extremism” (a title which should immediately give its reader some pause) Secretary of State John Kerry writes, “Eliminating the terrorists of today with force will not guarantee protections from the terrorists of tomorrow. We have to transform the environment that gave birth to these movements…….This means […]
Guest Essay: Time to Get Serious About the Texas Reading Crisis
By Courtney Boswell, Executive Director, Texas Institute for Education Reform Nobody can top the late, great Dr. Seuss when it comes to expressing the importance of being able to read: “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” The opposite is also true. As […]