It’s not so much that these young Americans are living lives of sin and debauchery, at least no more than you’d expect from 18- to 23-year-olds. What’s disheartening is how bad they are at thinking and talking about moral issues.
At the cusp of the 2012 race, we have a classic cultural collision between a skinny Eastern egghead lawyer who’s inept in Washington gunfights and a pistol-totin’, lethal-injectin’, square-shouldered cowboy who has no patience for book learnin’.
Recasting any of these alone would be huge. Doing all four at once—when the world has never been more interconnected—is mind-boggling.
Civility in politics isn’t dead. You just have to find the middle ground of funny.
Mike Pence shouldn’t pop any champagne corks, though. Indiana gubernatorial elections have a nasty habit of running counter to national trends.
We are left with the sobering realization that there is no lobby for free-market economics at the Statehouse.
Where would we be without the P.E. MacAllisters of the world? Not just in politics—and there are many Democrats about whom we could ask the same question—but throughout all our society.
Hoage is correct that his office shouldn’t be advising agencies on how to comply with the law, educating them, and also fining them when they misbehave.
Change is hard, for sure. But the stirring of citizens’ souls in this country is exciting. “Take it back!” I shout.
Is it right to allow kids to suffer because of their parents’s choices?
Libraries, like roads, are government where nearly everyone wants it.
Until some reasonable change in the legislation is made, we will continue to have a system that is unfair and impossible to enforce.
If these funds are completely spent on infrastructure repairs or even enhancing service programs by capitalizing a new endowment, we will miss an opportunity to attract a far greater investment in transforming our core city.
In addition to his clothes, confidentiality and dignity, he has been stripped of his committee chairmanships.
It seems that, for those fighting the hardest to stay afloat in this economy, the hits just keep coming.
In a telling exchange, an education expert at a local advocacy group with whom I spoke reported that she home-schooled her children with special needs. This is not at all uncommon.
The factory system is no longer acceptable. We now demand professionalism from our teachers and a system that adapts to each child’s particular needs.
The entire school culture would be developed to improve expectations and accountability for both its students and community.
Urban school systems across the country are in crisis, but some individual urban schools are thriving.
Instead of talking about how smart politicians are or aren’t, we should have an infinitely more useful, meaningful conversation about whether we share and respect their values and whether they have shown themselves to be effective.
