Posted in Constitution on Apr 25th, 2008
Among the following list of countries, which do you think has the largest share of its population locked up behind bars?
China
Russia
Cuba
Iran
Burma
The U.S. of A
If you guessed communist China … you would be wrong! If you guessed communist Cuba … you would still be wrong. If you guessed Theocratic/Fascist Iran … you would be wrong! If […]
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Posted in Constitution on Jan 24th, 2008
Our Founders drafted the Constitution with fewer than 5,000 words; with later amendments it is about 8,000 words. The federal tax code is more than 9 million words. So the document that created the government is less than 0.1% as long as the tax code that funds it. Such is the state of Washington today.
From […]
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Posted in Constitution, Education on Jun 28th, 2007
In the recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision banning speech “promoting illegal drug use” at American public schools, Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion, outlines the sad decline and fall of American public education. Read it here.
Would this even be a question if schools were not publicly controlled? Principals, via the power granted to them by […]
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