Once again, college administrators have demonstrated that they don't think the First Amendment applies to the campus: Two students who were threatened with suspension at the College of Alameda after one of them prayed with an ailing teacher in a faculty office can sue the community college district for allegedly violating their freedom of speech, […]
Earlier this year, tucked in the massive stimulus bill, was a sop to the teachers union in Washington, D.C. The bill effectively killed the D.C. opportunity scholarships that gave a few lucky poor children an out from D.C.'s atrocious public school system. I'm not a proponent of taxpayer-funded vouchers for kids generally. I think the […]
I was going to let last week's brouhaha on the right side of the blogosphere slide. For those of you who don't get out much, at last week's meeting of the G-20, President Barack Obama bowed to the Saudi kinglet. He shouldn't have done it. It was a meaningless gesture. It was a minor diplomatic […]