Virginia Right!

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: How would you change the role teachers unions play in public education? The Noisy Room: Overlooking the fact that a US Federal Department of Education is [...]

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This report from The Hill is intriguing.  Here’s the leading candidates: State Rep. Alecia Webb-Edgington (R) has Davis’s blessing, and has also secured the support of former Sen. Jim Bunning (R), who represented Kentucky in Congress for more than two decades. Squaring off with Webb-Edgington is Thomas Massie, an elected county official backed by Paul, [...]

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Here’s how Reuters (I expect better from Reuters) started in about the Iowa homeschooling rally at the state capitol in Des Moines: Three potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates expressed hostility toward the public school system at a home schooling rally on Wednesday in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa. Hostilty?  Let’s see what they [...]

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Brent Budowsky writes this ironically humorous article in The Hill supporting Harry Reid.  Budowsky suggests that Theodore Roosevelt would support Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) since he is actually out there in the arena fighting for the right: Roosevelt continued: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred [...]

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Nevada was one of Ron Paul’s best states.  He came in a distant but definite second over McCain, Huckabee, etc (Romney won) in the Nevada caucuses to elect delegates to the state convention.  And at that convention, the Paulites took over that convention!  The Las Vegas Sun reported they seemed to have the majority of the [...]

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