Religion Colors Goals for Schools Biology teacher John Krehbiel wrote in an e-mail that he has seen vast improvement in student performance during his eight years at Westlake High School. “It would be a shame to see our credibility sullied…
Tales from the Bushiverse
What the debates tell us about the president’s psyche
Good Advice
One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington standing by him. Bush asks him, “George, what’s the best thing I can do to help the country?” “Set an honest…
QOTD: James Carville
You know, back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You…
Chris Reeve Quote
We’ve had a severe violation of the separation of church and state in the handling of what to do about this emerging technology. There are religious groups—the Jehovah’s Witnesses, I believe—who think it’s a sin to have a blood transfusion.…
Interesting Take from an Anti-Choice Writer
Voting Our Conscience, Not Our Religion Second, politics is the art of the possible. During the eight years of the Reagan presidency, the number of legal abortions increased by more than 5 percent; during the eight years of the Clinton…
The Results of Abstinence-Only Education
Bush’s Emphasis on Abstinence Puts USA at Risk for Increase in HIV Cases A study by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Bruckner of Yale University found that teenagers who made virginity pledges delayed the onset of sexual activity…
Bush Quote
Bush Video I know it was a misstatement, but I have to think of it as a Freudian slip in many ways. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful. And so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to…
Quote from the Debate
“But I can’t take what is an article of faith for me and legislate it or someone who doesn’t share that article of faith, whether they be agnostic, atheist, Jew, Protestant, whatever. I can’t do that.” Not much mystery as…
Booklet That Upset Mrs. Cheney Is History
The Department of Education destroyed 300,000 parent guides on “How to Help Your Child Learn History” because Mrs. Cheney didn’t like a reference to one of her pet peeves. Big Sister, anyone? Published on Friday, October 8, 2004 by the…