Being thankful for the Supreme Court’s protection of free speech
As FIRE‘s William Creeley notes, not only can we be grateful for Supreme Court decisions protecting speech, such as the 64-year-old West Virginia v. Barnett case on the pledge of allegiance, but we also have an interesting retrospective on the case, including the two children (now much older, of course). I need to finish editing […]
Clinton pulled towards culture
The headline for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer run of an AP story, Clinton raps teacher merit pay, is apt in one way: While I don’t think you’ll ever see Senator Clinton rapping, she is running towards her husband’s small-to-vanishing idea of focusing on culture rather than policy. She backed away from performance-pay ideas and talked about […]