Former Congressman Paul Ryan who sponsored the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018, HR18-4174, is now investing in an evidence-based policy business. According to today’s Journal Sentinel piece, […]
I do think it’s time to re-post this, from Columbus Day, 2015 – Why? Because after years of being bombarded with unsubstantiated charges and hysterical outrage from the most outrageous folks imaginable, I think it’s time, even with as small a nod as th…
I do think it’s time to re-post this, from Columbus Day, 2015 – Why? Because after years of being bombarded with unsubstantiated charges and hysterical outrage from the most outrageous folks imaginable, I think it’s time, even with as small a nod as th…
Like most education-focused news outlets, the Hechinger Report claims that it “provides in-depth, fact-based, unbiased reporting.” Yet, somehow, it usually ends up dishing the same old formulaic propaganda supportive of […]
The Bill of Rights which once defined and united us as Americans, is now the issue which is least defined and most divides us. Unfortunately what we are so divided over is not what those amendments of the Bill of Rights were written to protect – our in…
Rosary Coast-to-Coast at the Arch in St. Louis We are in a spiritual battle for America’s soul, and we’ve been fighting it all wrong.
Politics is important. Christians should engage. But politics isn’t enough. And politics isn’t…
It’s pretty shocking that MVP, a k-12 math provider, would sue a parent for being critical of its Common Core math curriculum. But before we get into the MVP lawsuit, […]
[Combining two previous posts marking what today apparently doesn’t warrant a ‘Google Doodle’, it is the 232nd birthday of the United States Constitution. Learn it or lose it… and the liberty it was written to preserve.]Today marks the completion of …
The opposites of “rigid” are more unflattering than rigidity:
lenient indulgent broken compromising easy imprecise indefinite inexact irresolute unfixed unreliable accommodating liberal permissive resigned soft-hearted
And that’s th…
Doubling down on their efforts to deny and rewrite reality, the New York Times today tweeted that “… airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center…”, which they’ve for some reason deleted. Why, I can’t imagine, as they also ran a full …
There are more causes than we can count for why so many people today have so little interest in living lives worth living or showing respect for human life – theirs or others. While we can’t say what causes any one person to choose to murder as many of…
MSIP (Missouri School Improvement Plan) is the process by which public schools in our state are evaluated for accreditation and the need for state level intervention. DESE is about to […]
I held off on responding to the news of the recent mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton. Like me, you’ve heard what happened, you too know the awful arithmetic of the casualty statistics… and the endlessly contentious talking points su…
I held off on responding to the news of the recent mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton. Like me, you’ve heard what happened, you too know the awful arithmetic of the casualty statistics… and the endlessly contentious talking points su…
A friend commented on a recent blog of mine that he misses my political analysis. So I need to make this clear: my political analysis is that all problems in the world are demonic in nature.
I’ll write that again so no one’s confused: all p…