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As the Tour de France comes to its end in the next few days and it looks like Lance Armstrong has a good chance to win his seventh straight race, I found the following excerpts from this older New Yorker profile article of Armstrong to contain many interesting insights into him: Lance Armstrong’s heart is…
In a Wall Street Journal editorial entitled Who Will Judge the Inquisitors?, Richard Epstein discusses Supreme Court nominee John Roberts and Democratic Senator Schumer’s initial comments: …I have never met Judge Roberts, nor, for that matter, read a single one of his opinions. But I knew that he enjoyed the reputation as one of the…
“Breaking the Glass Taboo,” my latest column for TheFactIs.org, responds to Providence Journal editorialist M.J. Anderson’s nostalgia for the days of the Baby Boomers’ youth and to recent research finding that removing men from the home can be part of a recipe for creating “exceptional” boys. I didn’t go into this in my column, but…
The following words are written in a new Wall Street Journal editorial entitled No More Souters: …the record across recent decades is that justices who join the High Court without a clear and confident jurisprudence eventually become part of what has been a longstanding liberal majority… By “liberal majority,” by the way, we aren’t merely…
Thanks to Andrew for the heads-up about a posting in today’s kausfiles: Test Scores Improving, NEA In Full Damage-Control Mode! Want to know what to make of those recent encouraging NAEP test score results, which the Bush Administration promptly hailed as “proof that No Child Left Behind is working.” As usual, Eduwonk is the place…
The headline on today’s Financial Times article about Iraq suffers from a double standard all too common in MSM reporting.Weekend of slaughter propels Iraq towards all-out civil war.For some reason, continuing violence directed against a population does not constitute a state of war. Only once the population fights back in a systematic way do the…
Thanks to Chuck over at The Senescent Man, check out this website entitled Kay Coalition Against Casino Gambling (KAYCO), which is a statewide coordinating body helping local community groups to resist the spread of the gambling industry in their neighborhoods. Casino gambling serves no positive social purpose. We must continue to oppose all attempts to…
Nothing is more unjust to the working families and retirees of America than to over-pay for under-performance. In other words, not to get fair value for our hard-earned monies. It is in that context where this blogsite has been appropriately critical of both public sector unions and private sector unions. Follow all the links at…
Governor Carcieri has put forth his case against the privatization of Beacon Mutual in today’s ProJo. First, there are risks: Rhode Island employers should worry about this expansion because Beacon is not just any insurer. Beacon has two statutory duties that no other insurer has: First, Beacon must offer insurance at the lowest possible cost…
The North East Independent and the East Greenwich Pendulum, our two local newspapers, carried two stories this week that reinforce, yet again, why public schools are structured in a way where neither teachers nor bureaucrats act in ways that lead to a level of excellence necessary to provide our children with a superb education and…