Zorro Rides Again?
It was Zorro. As a child, I loved Zorro. I didn’t realize his sword was merely a more or less …
Tag Archives: Texas
Campus Concealed Carry Quiet
Do you hear that, gentle readers? The sound of happy crickets chirping? I’ll get to why they’re chirping soon enough, …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 5
In the first four articles in this series–available here, here, here and here-I explored many issues relating to mandatory, high stakes testing. However, I’ve yet to …
Texas: American Values
I find myself, virtually daily, amused and annoyed by the dim-witted emanations of the self-imagined elite of the media and …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 4
In the first three installments of this series (available here, here and here), I explained some of the many negative effects of …
CNN: The Most Thuggish Name In News
This, gentle readers, is what happens when the self-imagined intellectual and moral elite lose all sense of responsibility and restraint. …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 3
In the first article of this series–Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1–I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 2
In Testing Tyranny, Part 1, I focused on how mandatory, high stakes testing is destroying the canon, removing enormous amounts …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1
I last updated this series of article in 2014. Much has changed since then, but the problems presented by mandatory, high …
Texas And STAAR Tests: A Poet Doth Protest, And Not Too Much
Free at last, free at last; great God Almighty, free at last! No, I wasn’t born a poor black child, …
Downhome Texas Hospitality: Beltway Style
Conservatives often think it useless to try to speak with progressives about politics. All too often, the response is irrational …
Grading The Graders?
Familiarity breeds contempt, or so the old aphorism goes. Virtually all Americans have had the benefit of a K-12 …
One For The Good Guys
Regular readers are, I’m sure, aware of the murder of Harris County Deputy Sheriff Darren Goforth on August 28, 2015 …
“I’m An Old Ex-Marine And I Try To Do The Right Thing.”
Occasionally, I come across a story, usually quite by accident, that renews my faith in humanity. From ABC News (which virtually …
