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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 01:25:33 PM
On July 19, a federal judge in Baltimore struck down a Maryland law that would have required Wal-Mart to spend 8 percent of its payroll on employee health care or hand the difference over to the state. According to the Baltimore Sun, the legislation violated a federal law promoting uniform treatment of employers. Friday, February 17, 2006 12:16:44 PM
Apparently not content to confine their legislative excess to Wal-Mart and small business, Maryland Democrats now are threatening the property rights of Maryland boaters, proposing a new bill ostensibly aimed at nothing more than attempting to “protect us from ourselves.” House Bill 140 is a deplorable and intrusive bit of legislation that would require every individual on a boat to wear a personal flotation device (PFD) while the boat is underway. Saturday, December 03, 2005 12:45:52 PM
A few weeks ago, Townhall.com blogger Laura Hollis shared a suggestion most parents should heed: Get your children out of government schools. Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:53:33 AM
Today (November 15) is America Recycles Day. In honor of this fine day I’ve done the only logical thing I could think of: I threw my plastic soda bottle and paper plate into my garbage can after I ate my lunch. Friday, October 28, 2005 10:04:42 PM
Well, there goes the article I was readying to write to explain why George W. Bush's only hope of saving his party from impending irrelevance, not to mention himself from immediate lame duck status, was either to withdraw Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court or to encourage her to do so. Alas, Miers has beaten me to the punch and withdrawn. Friday, September 09, 2005 07:06:45 AM
If we're lucky, the one positive outcome of Hurricane Katrina will be an overwhelming realization by Americans that we should not entrust our welfare to the state. Thursday, August 25, 2005 07:10:18 AM
Talk radio host Michael Graham has been fired from Washington, D.C.-based radio station WMAL-AM for his comment on July 21 that "Islam has, sadly, become a terrorist organization." Sunday, July 17, 2005 10:15:06 AM
Freshman Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and I have something in common: It seems we'll both be out of a job in the not too distant future, owing our respective fates to the latest round of the Defense Department's Base Realignment and Closure process. Saturday, July 02, 2005 04:39:00 PM
Thomas Sowell turned 75 years old on Thursday (June 30). And I don’t know quite where to begin. My friend Jim Hathaway turned me on to Thomas Sowell’s column a little more than four years ago. At that point I’d been reading Ann Coulter’s stuff for at least a year, thinking that I had found the zenith of what conservative commentary had to offer. Interestingly enough, I hadn’t. And this is no knock on Ann. Friday, May 06, 2005 11:24:00 AM
One of the most beneficial college classes I ever took was a summer graduate course at SUNY Geneseo called Educational Inquiry, Measurement and Statistics. It was taught, ironically enough, by one of the best professors I ever had: Dr. Phillip VanFossen, who has since moved on to Purdue University. Friday, April 08, 2005 10:23:33 AM
by Trevor Bothwell The Washington Post reported just the other day that at least 25 percent of Washington, D.C.’s, teachers lack appropriate certification. According to the Post: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:33:00 AM
The 2010 Super Bowl might be coming to New York City. According to the Associated Press: Oh, by the way, New York taxpayers also get to kick in about $500 million of the total bill. Friday, February 11, 2005 11:42:01 PM
by Trevor Bothwell Scrap the NHL season this year. And next year, for all I care. Toronto’s Globe and Mail reports that unless an agreement is reached between the National Hockey League and the NHL Player’s Association by the weekend, league commissioner Gary Bettman "would have to cancel the season." Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:07:41 PM
by Trevor Bothwell A Wayne State University student recently demonstrated the predominant obstacle to public school reform: the liberal mind. In his editorial, Why the free market doesnt work for education, an incoherent and illogical defense of our educational status quo, Timothy Zessin neatly encapsulates liberals gross misunderstanding of free market economics and by consequence their rationale for subjecting school children to ineffective socialist education policies. Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:03:42 PM
by Trevor Bothwell Any parent with a child in a public school has likely discovered that our education system is little more than a vehicle through which liberals indoctrinate our children with socialist ideology. If this sounds like a radical assertion, I assure you it is not. In fact, examples abound indicating just how accurate it is. Saturday, January 08, 2005 11:47:04 PM
by Trevor Bothwell Arizona state senator Thayer Verschoor emerged as an unlikely hero to many Arizona high schoolers this week, announcing his intention to dismantle the states AIMS test, an accountability measure that essentially acts as an exit exam for potential graduates. Verschoor, a Republican who favors school choice and private school vouchers, is being embraced by many parents and teachers union officials who have alleged that the test is unfair and even discriminatory. Standardized tests are anathema to school bureaucrats loath to be held to account for the quality of education they provide. |
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