Here we go again. There’s no reason to have faith in the fix, no matter its final form. Career members in Congress created this financial crisis and will surely make a mess of the solution. It’s hardly reassuring that the members of Congress that created this predicament are involved in its solution.
I often question America’s education system, even though I have spent plenty of time in it.
So much energy gets directed toward things that have nothing to do with “education” and to action that affronts learning.
The latest example comes from a lawsuit making its way through the Tennessee courts, a suit against the Anderson County School Board and several county education officials. It serves as another testament to the way school administrators can find evil lurking behind every kid’s locker or in this case, every kid’s belt buckle.
For the purpose of transparency, I want to stipulate that I do not smoke cigarettes and never have.
But I think Americans who use tobacco products—and many who don’t—have similar and increasing levels of frustration when it comes to the U.S. government and its policies on tobacco products, especially cigarettes.
Cigarette smoking kills people. No one successfully argues against that point—not even the tobacco companies.
The job description for U.S. Supreme Court justice does not include the ability to predict the future. Federal appeals court judges must rule on constitutionality, not probability.
But through the years, the “likelihood” of something occurring based on a law or an action under review by the court seems to have crept its way into rulings.
That may have merit, and it may not.
Nothing undermines efforts to get people involved in governance more than political pandering by politicians and bureaucrats.
While our communities and our country seem to spiral out of whack, leaders focus on benign issues that get media attention but do little to address community problems.
Lately it seems that community leaders throughout the country think high gas prices, rising unemployment, crime and underachieving public schools can all disappear if we go after kids who wear droopy pants.
