it all comes back to money. Funds the federal government took and now flaunts in the faces of state legislatures have proven to be an irresistible bait.
Many parents are beginning to ask this question as the debate over Common Core heats up. There are several reasons Common Core is a really bad thing for your kids. Common Core is a nationalized education program. Some people may say this is a good thing. After all, we should want common standards across the…
At Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has a thoughtful response to my defense of the President’s action: More on the legality of Obama’s decision to exchange five high-ranking Taliban terrorists without giving Congress advance notice. He concludes: Perhaps Congress would be unduly infringing on the president’s powers as commander-in-chief if it tried to make individual tactical decisions on a…
US Patent 6630507: The Nail in the Drug War Coffin? US Patent 6630507 is owned by the federal government despite persecution of marijuana as a schedule I drug with no accepted medical uses… The nail in the coffin of the US War on Drugs is a medical marijuana patent owned by the federal government. At […]
Aztlanderos – A Deluded and Dangerous Brotherhood By Al Garza, Published by The Christian News, November 2012 Too few U.S. citizens realize there is a virtually unrecognized violent faction of pro-Palestinian anti-U.S. activists plotting and laboring to overthrow the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and eventually, according to some who follow the […]
Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in Bond v. United States has been sharply criticized (see here and here), so I’ll say few words partially in its favor. The case has seemed odd from the beginning because the federal statute at issue implements the Chemical Weapons Convention and (as the majority says) the local misuse of household chemicals does not seem the type…
It was the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, France – D-Day. President and Nancy Reagan visited the beaches and battlements, and with dignitaries and veterans of WWII in attendance, it was here he gave one of his most … Continue reading →
Raleigh, NC, June 4, 2014 — Today, the North Carolina House passed a bill that would end the state’s involvement in Common Core educational standards, effectively nullifying its implementation within the state. The vote was 78-39. House Bill 1061 (HB1061) went through two hectic days. On Tuesday, the House Education Committee rewrote the original bill…