Barack Obama is trying guarante that his Messianic presidency will bring about "world class education" to America.  It's no wonder he needed to hold his acceptance speech at Invesco Field:  no other Colorado venue could hold his ego.

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Good Girls Go to Heaven and Bad Girls Go Everywhere.

Two big stories this week on the good and the bad.

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Public schools have more problems than just funding, or hiring qualified teachers, or feeding malnourished children.

They have 13 year olds attempting to rape staff members.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised, given the number of attacks against school officials this year -- 120-- and the number of charges filed -- 7.  There is no real discipline for these little shitbirds or their worthless, feckless, parents. 

Personally, I hope this little 13-year pile of walking turd gets charged as an adult.  Let him spend a little time in Hagerstown or ECI -- say, 8 years -- and find out how tough he isn't.

He needs to learn the lesson:  if you want to act like a man, you've to to take it like a man.

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By now, everyone has heard of the story of Jolita Berry, the art teacher at Reginald F. Lewis High school.  It seems that no one in the City School System was willing to step up to the plate for her.  City Prosecutors couldn't move forward because under Maryland law, police cannot make a complaint about an assault they did not witness.  Jolita Berry was assaulted in her workplace, as her students cheered on the assailants.

This is fundamentally unacceptable.  The law must be changed.

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Administrators at the University of St. Thomas, a Catholic university in Minnesota, have banned conservative pro-life speaker Star Parker from giving a talk on campus because it was sponsored by the Young America's Foundation.

Al Franken and Debra Davis -- a "transgender" woman, are welcome anytime, however.

If Pope Benedict wants to make his visit to the US next week meaningful, he should start by putting his ruby red slippers up the ass of some of his Catholic congregants who feel that they can re-write doctrine and principle of the Roman church at will.

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We have to give Indiana University's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences an award for stating the obvious:

More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless.

That's according to a story on LiveScience.com.

Next up, the Indiana University Department of Earth Sciences will announce that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning.

The question is-- with Universities both public and private sloughing at the public trough -- who pays for this?  Are these types of studies what causes college educations by outpace inflation by almost 1000%?  Is the expenditure of money on these things the reasons why colleges push more for and more student loan availability and bigger Pell grants?

Anyone wonder I have so little regard for a modern college education?

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Lawless teachers unions are at it again, trying to stifle anything resembling competition in education:

According to a report by Tallahassee’s News Channel 7, the Florida Education Association may sue to shut down that state’s scholarship tax credit program. Under this program, businesses can donate to non-profit scholarship funds that subsidize tuition for low-income kids at the private schools of their families’ choosing. In return, the businesses can claim dollar for dollar tax credits up to a certain limit.

Yes, you read that right.  No state money is being taken away from public schools.  This is all private money being donated to private non-profit foundations for scholarships up to a maximum value of $3,750 (about $4,000 less than is spent per pupil in Florida schools).  And those foundations are required to put all money they receive under the program toward scholarships, and can only carry over 25% of received monies from year to year.

So what is the issue?  The lawless teachers unions are worried that the more students that take advantage of the scholarships, the less students there will be public education.  THEY DON'T WANT TO LOSE THEIR "CUSTOMERS".

So much for freedom.

See the whole article at Cato @ Liberty.

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Congratulations to Emily Randall of Hereford Middle School, who won the third annual Baltimore Bee competition at Towson University and will compete in the national 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee in May!

Read more here.

Once again, the Hereford Zone rules the roost.  Our new bumper sticker:

"My Kid Can Spell Perspicacious. Yours works at McDonalds."

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This is a question without a simple answer. But it comes to mind this evening as I review a comment by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) (Note: The "D" here stands for "dumbass" or "doofus").

Senator Reid's offensive quote:  "The Founding Fathers would be cringing to hear people talking about eliminating earmarks."

Let us all now bow our heads in prayer and thank God that Harry Reid is not a history teacher.

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William F. Buckley passed away this morning, and is undoubtedly now with our Lord.  I can only imagine the episode of "Firing Line" he is hosting.  William F. Buckley -- for anyone who has voted for a Republican since 1980 -- is a giant among men. 

WFB created the modern conservative movement.  There is no doubt about this.  In the late 1950s, through his books (God and Man at Yale and McCarthy's Enemies) and his founding of National Review, William F. Buckley reinvigorated a moribund conservative movement saddled with racists, conspiracy-mongers, and isolationists.  He stoked the fires of American's who yearned for smaller government, lower taxes, greater freedom, and responsibility.  He united the ideas of free-market capitalism with social conservatism, bringing in the famous "third leg" of the stool-- national defense conservatives -- that allowed the Republican Party to nominate a libertarian in 1964 and elect an avowed and unabashed conservative in 1980 and 1984.

His life was a triumph.  Any of us who write or think or vote conservative owe him our thanks and promise to carry on the fight.  He was a giant among men. 

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