2009-07-17 02:46
The role of a solid education is to show its student his true ignorance; that beyond the common truths of adolescence lays a world which, no matter how much one tries, can never be fully rea… Read More
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2009-07-16 16:31
Today, the White house released a statement regarding President Obama’s new plan to provide an additional $12 billion into the Community College System, with a large part of it going t… Read More
2009-07-09 16:04
Earlier this week, HBO aired Shouting Fire: Stories from the edge of free speech, a documentary detailing a few examples of the consequences of people simply speaking their mind. As with all… Read More
2009-06-30 17:23
I have a confession to make. I saw, on the day it opened no less, Transformers. Now calm down. No, there was no gun to my head, I was not taking my ten year old cousin, and was not on a date… Read More
2009-06-17 19:06
Reading pages and pages on the proposed healthcare reform options is a mind-numbing task, and leaves one sorely in need of ten minutes with a Dr. Seuss book, simply for the pleasure one deri… Read More
2009-06-16 15:50
First of all, please excuse my recent absence from posting. I am working on a book regarding education and tenure, and it is an exciting yet time consuming process. However, thank god for th… Read More
2009-05-25 14:58
I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with Paul Krugman. It started when I spent 28 bucks on Amazon for his Return of Depression Economics book, which turned out to be the size of Spor… Read More
2009-05-14 17:23
There are very few professions in America that have as little accountability as the teaching profession outside of private institutions. Private schools currently have a 9.8% firing rate, wh… Read More
2009-05-12 12:46
In light of the announced David Souter Supreme Court retirement, speculation has run rampant on who the potential replacement might be. President Obama, in his surprise appearance at a p… Read More
2009-05-03 16:05
And as the Republican Party dissipates, a golden opportunity presents itself. With the defection of Arlen Spector, who was never really a Republican anyway, and the imminent departure of… Read More
2009-04-28 15:07
As we approach the one hundred day mark of the Obama presidency, there will be no shortage of media critics, writing the comprehensive report card on issues they hardly understand, but whose… Read More
2009-04-23 17:06
I must say that, despite efforts to at least understand some of the standard Republican viewpoints with regard to taxes and size of government, I am left perplexed. Certainly vast difference… Read More
2009-04-23 16:39
It has been argued, from both sides of the political aisle, that escalating taxes on the rich serves as a disincentive to true innovation. The fact is, for the great innovators, money rarely… Read More
2009-04-19 15:12
It is time for the releasing of the torture memos, and the torture of suspected terrorist story altogether, to be called what it really is. The most overblown, media driven story in recent… Read More
2009-04-16 01:55
It was my great honor to not only attend, but greatly enjoy, a wonderful tea party earlier today. Yes, that Tea Party. I was able to find about an hour to visit the “Tea Party”… Read More
2009-04-14 22:30
This is a simple post to direct you to a spectacular article on Columbine, 10 years after the fact. This is yet another example of how the general public reacts after any shocking incident… Read More
2009-04-13 15:57
In what seemed like the longest standoff in U.S. History, Captain Phillips was safely rescued Easter Sunday, at the expense of 3 Somali “pirates.” Great. We, as a nation, have re… Read More
2009-04-05 00:17
With the Obama European Tour still in full effect, and with new tour dates recently added for France, China and Russia in the near future, it would seem the overall consensus is that the tri… Read More
2009-03-26 20:49
With the collapse of the trademark Seattle newspaper last week, and the fall of similar ones throughout the country, the ushering in of the next generation of journalism has begun. The days… Read More
2009-03-22 14:56
At the beginning of April, The atheist alliance will host their annual convention, featuring keynote speaker Richard Dawkins. While it is no secret that I am an atheist, and am a fan of Prof… Read More
2009-03-22 12:20
This is getting to be a bit much. How far can this AIG mess go? It’s bad enough that the taxpayers handed over in excess of 180 billion to the financial giant, but nothing compares to… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
As is abundantly clear, I have not posted in some time. I took some time to start a local online newspaper, which turned out to be far more time consuming than i could have ever imagined. Th… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The impact of many historical figures often grows substantially in hindsight, and the example of Constantine is ample evidence of this. Very few figures have had as great an impa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
2006-06-07 11:16
Once, as a boy, I was told a story about a man that walked on water. This man walked on water in a storm, and was so powerful, that when a member of a nearby boat tried to meet him on the wa… Read More
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