flippityflopitty sends this Washington Post article at truthout concerning an investigation of a key initiative of President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law, “a program besieged by allegations of financial conflicts of interest and cronyism”. For decades liberal Democrats have controlled public education. But it’s only now under the sheer pretense of introducing competition and […]

What drives those who would stifle free speech? The arrogance of their superior ideas? The insecurity of unfavorable comparison? Impatience, intolerance, delusion, ignorance – all of the above? What good comes of censorship? What is the noble purpose? Is it “fairness”? Who will judge what is fair? Is it “efficiency”? To save us from arguing […]