It has been just over 24 hours since key portions of the Patriot Act expired and the National Security Agency is no longer able to collect all of our metadata without probable cause and a warrant. There is no doubt that those who wish to destroy America from within gave up using carrier pigeons, letters…… READ MORE
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You Can’t Have It All
When parents choose to take their children out of public schools for private schools, charter schools or home-schooling they usually see some benefit in it. That benefit could be incorporation of religious beliefs into the curriculum, or not have to learn “Ten is Your Friend!” math skills, or not having to take Common Core standardized testing,…… READ MORE
We Just Keep Finding Out What’s In the Law
No phrase in American political history has been as fertile a ground for proof of the incompetence of Government as then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s famous comment about the Affordable Care Act: “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.” Here we are six years along from that #facepalm moment, and we continue…… READ MORE
Let’s Take Our Balls and Go Home
I think the time has come for the United States to get out of the international sports arena. The arrests this week of top ranking soccer officials both in FIFA–the sport’s global governing body–and CONCACAF–which oversees soccer here in North America–shows there is no legitimacy to the international competitions anymore. So let’s just sit out…… READ MORE
Who Should Be In the Cages?
I’m certainly not an “animal rights” activist–but the killing of a wolf at the Menominee Park Zoo over the weekend really gets my goat. (I don’t use the term “euthanization” because that really means to put down a suffering animal as an act of mercy. The wolf killed was not suffering.) It became the innocent…… READ MORE
You Reap What You Sow
Madison School District officials are patting themselves on the back for a sharp reduction in the number of out-of-school suspensions and in-school punishments for African-American students this school year. They credit a new Behavior Education Plan that took the easiest possible route to reduce such punishments–they all but stopped handing out such discipline. Under the…… READ MORE
Who Needs To Know That Stuff?
As you might expect, educators are up in arms over a requirement up for consideration in the State Legislature that kids pass a citizenship test before they are allowed to graduate high school in Wisconsin. The test would mirror that given to immigrant seeking citizenship and would feature 100 questions–of which 60 would have to…… READ MORE
But These Are the Schools We Wanted!!
If I was a resident of the Milwaukee School District, I would be pretty ticked off right now. This week, the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee approved a provision that would allow an independent commissioner to take control of failing schools in the Milwaukee District. That commissioner could fire administrators and teachers and restructure the schools as charter…… READ MORE
From the Home Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin……..
Another piece of my youth comes to an end tonight, as David Letterman hosts his final episode of the Late Show. I’ve been a Dave fan since the early days of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC in the early 1980’s. Back then, WLUK Channel 11 didn’t even show Dave’s show immediately after…… READ MORE
Making Less In America
Monday provided an excellent example of what life is going to be like in the “New, New, New Economy” here in the US. In the morning, we spoke with one of the UW-Oshkosh graduates who won the America’s Pitch Tank competition last week–a Shark Tank-style contest that saw business leaders select what they think could be…… READ MORE
