Month: August 2006

Despite the fact that the House Appropriations Committee voted to block the funding of an IRS initiative to outsource and privatize debt collection, the IRS will be moving forward with its plan – perhaps as soon as next...

One of the senate seats we’ll need to pick up this fall if we’re to gain a majority may well be the seat of retiring Senate Majority Leader Frist, so I thought I’d pass along a snapshot of what’s...

For several years, the state of Texas has been widely cited as a model of standards-based education reform. Some called the educational progress occurring in Texas a miracle, even Texas’ educational accountability was even...

The Virginian Pilot my local paper, ran a pair of pieces on Saturday that illustrate the fabulist conservative view of the “war” on terror.  The editorial page featured “highlights” of an interview...

It’s a known fact that atrocities in a war are more likely to occur when the each warring side demonizes and dehumanizes their adversary. This is most easily done when racial or ethnic or religious differences can be...