Inspiring confidence in the U.S. ability to ramp up border security, the nation’s chief of homeland security had this to say: “You’re never going to totally seal that border.. . . It’s 1,960 miles across that Southwest border. It’s some of the roughest, toughest geographical terrain in the world across that border. And so, the notion that [...]
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Hit By Lightning, Attacked By Bear, Legislation Pending
Well, not exactly, but you have to wonder if the legislature might be eager to help this “victim” of lightning and mauling. The legislature went full till after video poker, errr, sweepstakes machines because the machines literally attack poor people in the streets and in their homes. Without stopping to solve the budget woes, they [...]
Update On Education Chairman Bill Harrison
State Board of Education Chairman Bill Harrison spoke before a senate subcommittee on education saying that charter schools aren’t all that innovative as he had visited several. Problem is, the more schools that have been contacted, the more are saying he never visited them. In fact, this is an update to an earlier blog post [...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham About Faces On Climate Change
As the death throes of the climate change movement continue, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sees the writing on the wall. “The science about global warming has changed,” he noted, offhandedly. “I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in question,” Graham told reporters. “The whole movement [...]
Anybody See Bill Harrison At A Charter School?
My good friend Matt Mittan stumbled across some fascinating audio showing part of what is wrong in public education. Apparently, if you can’t back up your statements with facts, it’s ok to just make them up in front of the senate subcommittee on education (you can hear the audio). State Board of Education Chairman [...]
