Month: March 2015

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas will become the first presidential candidate (in a strictly legal sense) of the 2016 campaign on Monday. He’s not going to go the whole “exploratory committee” route and intends to...

Kevin Carey has a piece in the Washington Post on the imminent demise of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) as the main metric used in college acceptance. I know that in some parts of the country people use the American College...

Ordinarily, I frown on cannibalism. But in this case…

I’m going to need some help from the Pond in connecting a couple of dots here.  But first a review and the latest development. The stumbling block for observers of the Ft. Lee lane closures to the GW Bridge has been...

It’s not really possible to distinguish between the Iraqi army, Shiite militias, and simple Iranian proxy fighters, but they’re pathetic however you choose to describe them. And what’s irritating is that our...