Politics from a moderate-leftie in a U.S. now proudly moderate-left! http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/ http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/100321.html You're probably aware of the arguments with respect to textbooks for Texas, and how the centralized state school board wants the publishers to bow to the board's perceptions of culture and history. I wasn't very alarmed by the reports I'd read until yesterday: http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/1003b.html#20d Widespread Panic. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/1003b.html#20c In Kansas City (MO), only about a third of the shool age kids attend public schools, going to private and charter schools instead. They haven't been able to pass a school bond since 1969, and now they're closing half their campuses. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/1003b.html#20b With health insurance, the cost differential between abortion and delivery is minimized. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/1003b.html#20a Union Station; Washington, D.C. http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/100320.html I frankly never understood Obama's insistence that HCR not add to the deficit; at least, I never agreed with it. The country has pursued huge initiatives before without thatr equirement, why burden HCR? After all, who's going to say that saving the lives of 45,000 people annually is a bad thing? Who? http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/1003b.html#18a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/100319.html Being against Joe McCarthy, and McCarthyism, isn't a bad thing. Lots of people are against it, and should be. Here, here for all those against McCarthyism! Now get this: in the spirit of St. Patrick' Day, William Gavin (over at NRO's Corner), wants us to stop calling McCarthyism "McCarthyism." http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/archives/1003b.html#17a http://www.samueljohnson.com/blog/parchives/100318.html