In a recent article carried by Yahoo!, I found confirmation that what I’ve said before about our educational system is correct. The CEO of AT&T has come out and said the unsayable truth – our schools have failed one of their major “customers”. The schools, while worried about No Child Left Behind and […]
I’ve heard a number of people mutter the “R” word lately. No, no, not Republican, but rather revolution. Yes, I’ve actually heard responsible people talking about revolution; people talking about revolution who most would never think of as revolutionaries. These are professional people; managers, small business owners, skilled artisans and craftspeople, and […]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have a strong reaction to statements such as this. I was raised during the Civil Rights era and was just coming of intellectual age in 1964 when the seminal piece of civil rights legislation was passed by the Congress. I remember the debate, and I […]
Does anyone out there really believe that we need to spend nearly two years and untold billions of dollars on elections in order to have an effective electoral process? I didn’t think so. I think we are, as a nation, smart enough to figure out a better, more effective way to run […]
Probably the “pettest” of my pet peeves has to do with education, or the lack of it in our nation. One of the fundamental reasons that this country rose to greatness was the fact that we paid greater attention to educating our masses than did the other nations of the world. It was […]
Mr. Obama took to the airwaves yesterday in an attempt to get out in front of the race issue. The LSM (lame-stream media) universally lauded him for his bold initiative to put the issue to rest by transcending it. I’m not sure how one puts an issue to rest by rising above it, but […]
Jeremiah was a racist
He was a good friend of mine
I said I never understood a single word he said
But he sure could talk so fine
He always talked a mighty fine line
Singin’
Joy to the world
All black boys and girls
Joy to us but not to them
Joy from me to me
When I become the king of the world
Like […]
