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Sunday morning there was some boring football highlight TV show on when I got up and poured myself a Dr Pepper. Before I could find the remote I heard familiar names: Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman.
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Black politicians, civil rights leaders and their white liberal advocates have little or no interest in doing anything effective to deal with what’s no less than an education crisis among black students. In city after city with large black populations, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., less than 10% of students test proficient in reading and math. For example, in 2016, in 13 Baltimore high schools, not a single student tested proficient in math. In six other high schools, only 1% tested proficient in math. Citywide, only 15% of Baltimore students passed the state’s English test. Despite these academic deficiencies, about 70% of the students graduate and are conferred a high school diploma.
Read moreAs I repeated my sporadic ritual sacrifice of innocent bedding plants to the god of no gardening skills this weekend, Nancy Schwartz came to mind.
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Kingfisher businessman Brian Walter’s efforts to fulfill former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s dream of a reformed national Congress are most commendable.
Read moreThe Pulitzer Prize Board recently awarded its commentary award to The New York Times’ Nikole Hannah-Jones for her essay launching the “1619 Project.” This will accelerate a trend already under way: subjecting schoolchildren to a curriculum that blames slavery on capitalism and whose creator believes socialism offers the best path to racial equity.
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I am a voracious reader of obituaries about people I don’t know and I’ll admit that some obits I read with a deep sense of sadness, and a few with just a smidgen of joy. One conclusion I’ve reached is that far too many obituaries are either too long, or too short. Many people who have led very full, rich and rewarding lives get only a short paragraph or two, while scoundrels, mass murderers, rapists, crooks and career politicians get half a page.
Read more[Ed. Note: Romina Boccia focuses on federal spending and the national debt as director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.
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Our country has been in the hands of career politicians, seems like forever. They are gradually getting weeded out. However, the chaos they have caused in the last almost four years, has caused turmoil and dissent the like of which our country has never seen.
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