Okay, we talked before about the Texas curriculum fiasco. To reiterate my basic belief, and my primary problem with what those people are doing: curriculum ought to be set by teachers based on the needs and interests of their students, not on the political whims of elected officials.
But after reading some of the specific [...]

I have no idea why 10 Americans, in Haiti on a humanitarian mission, thought it would be a good idea to take 33 Haitian kids to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. No one that I have seen has suggested that they were paid or had any insidious motive. My guess is that [...]

Eight years ago, Barack Obama was an Illinois state legislator. Eight years before he became president, George W. Bush was considered a spoiled, unlucky businessman trying to unseat a well-entrenched governor. Eight years before he became president, Bill Clinton was trying to regain the job of Arkansas governor that he had lost two [...]

So I am oddly fascinated by this week’s media frenzy over Harry Reid’s use of the word “negro”.
The Washington Post summarized the contents of the book “Game Change” as follows:
The authors describe Reid assessing Obama’s strengths as a candidate. Reid, they write, “believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, [...]

I personally believe that there are far too many Americans that are obsessed with their jobs and careers to the detriment of their relationships with friends and family and to the detriment of their own spirituality and enjoyment of life. I also believe that words and definitions have profound power over our thoughts and [...]

Here’s a couple lessons from statistics that we would all do well to remember:
1) Anything that can happen, will happen, if given enough opportunity.
2) Most systems will, on average, converge to their “true” values if given long enough.
So, for instance, let’s think about climate change.

A commentator on this site Blue Foot, just posed a really interesting question that I thought I would take a shot at answering. But the answer got long, so I thought I’d put it in a post instead of a comment. The question was:
“So what’s the path to small government?”
So I’m pretty liberal [...]

The Republican Party is holding their national meeting this winter. This is standard fare for both parties, and these meetings are generally taken up by electing and appointing various people, tweaking the platform in small ways, and generally being an excuse for party leaders to get together and schmooze each other once in awhile.
A [...]

Whatever you think about the mammogram debate right now, the evidence indicates that the mammography tests are broken. The stats that are floating around right now are this: if 1900 women received regular breast cancer screenings during their 40s, exactly one of them would discover a curable cancer that would have otherwise killed them. [...]

You want to know what bad journalism looks like? Read the article “Free Speech Rights Prevented Probe into Hasan Emails, Investigators Say“, currently the headline article on Foxnews.com. A few days ago I lambasted Fox & Friends for jumping to a quick conclusion that political correctness concerns prevented the military from taking preemptive [...]