I volunteer in a second grade classroom at a local elementary school. I had a conversation with the teacher today about why the students were not learning their “math facts”. For those of you that have not been to elementary school in the last few pentades, “math facts” refers to the student’s ability to instantly, [...]
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As we wander in to another Memorial Day, I pause to contemplate what the day means.
We are in the middle of an unwinnable war in Iraq. We don’t even seem to know what it is we are trying to accomplish there. Our soldiers, sailors and airmen are dying there, as are countless Iraqi civilians. [...]
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Recently, in my daily perusal of the news, I have noticed a rather dramatic increase in the number of cops being killed by people that have been “targeted” by the cop in question. In general, these people feel that they have no other way to escape police persecution. Earlier this week, I stumbled across an [...]
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(NOTE: this rant assumes that the illegal alien situation is something that we actually want to correct. I am not dealing with the issue of quotas or how many people should be allowed to immigrate – this rant is only about people in the US illegally.)
Disclosure: My maternal grandparents and paternal great great grandparents were [...]
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