The Rot within Common Core
My latest column for the Mobile Press-Register and al.com, limited to 600 words, gives concrete examples of how Common Core’s supposed “integration” of academic disciplines with each other actually leads […]
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Mobile Council Backstabs City… but now, let’s find a solution
Mobile residents should have been fuming two days ago when the City Council reversed its earlier promises and overrode Mayor Sandy Stimpson’s veto of an extension of the city’s “extra […]
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Victory!!! (?) (Sales Tax to be Reversed!)
The public spoke, and the Mobile City Council apparently has listened. Now even Councilman Fred Richardson, a longtime, straightforward advocate of a permanent extension of Mobile’s “extra penny” sales tax […]
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Fire the Mobile City Council. Now.
In just 21 minutes today, six members of the City Council of Mobile (all but Bess Rich) broke faith with the citizens of Mobile, sandbagged taxpayers, hurt the city’s long-term […]
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Mary Landrieu, Agonistes
More by a confluence of circumstances than through intent, I wrote three different pieces on Mary Landrieu last week, with her re-election race heating up and several controversies dogging her. […]
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Catching Up: Israel, Edwin Edwards, Obama Resignation….
Sorry I have been away for a while. Travels made it tough to get on site, and then I just fell further behind. Herewith, then, a collection of what I’ve […]
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Cowardice at the RNC
After weeks of conservative protest against the race-baiting ads in the Mississippi Senate race, ads financed by a PAC controlled by Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour, the Republican National Committee […]
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Making lemonade from education and from juries
At the Advocate this week, my column was made in the shade. I reach no jury verdict. I delve into what some people claim is extracurricular activity. And I think […]
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More Mississippi Mud
I hereby replace, for now, the earlier published contention that Mississippi’s Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour “prevaricated” about his role in race-baiting ads in the June U.S. Senate runoff in […]
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LA’s Privatized Charity Hospitals Doing Well
At The Advocate on Sunday, I assert that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s privatization of what once were known as the “charity” hospitals in Louisiana is going very well indeed. By “very […]
