Unless you really follow the field of education religiously, you probably missed last month's proud announcement that the federal Education Department had awarded over a quarter of a billion dollars to ten states to "help create new charter schools and increase the school choices that parents have to provide to their children."

Tony Snow had a memorable press conference on Monday, but it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. I guess it isn't easy being the information officer on the Titanic after the iceberg makes contact.

Even with my low opinion of President Bush, I did not expect him to give Lewis Libby a get-out-of-jail free card. The constitutional implications of the president freeing a White House official from the sentence doled out in a criminal case, when the crime involves the vice president and possibly even the president himself, couldn't be more clear.

If you need more proof that Fred Thompson worked as an abortion rights lobbyist in 1991, look no further than the answer he gave this weekend to a reporter's question. "I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime," Thompson said. "I guess the flies are buzzing."

So says James Fallows, author of "China Makes, The World Takes," a very lengthy account of life in China's new industrial belts in the July/August 2007 issue of The Atlantic. He thinks offshoring to China has helped both the U.S. and China so far, but watch out for the future. And having read the whole damn article three times, I think he's being remarkably optimistic. I think the picture he paints is about as scary as it gets.

"We now know full well what his beliefs are" is what Andrew Sullivan wrote about President Bush in his The Daily Dish blog about the President's decision today to commute Scooter Libby's entire prison sentence.

As the two preceding posts probably already told you, this has been one dismal damn Supreme Court term.

The Supreme Court today handed down a ruling that says students' free speech is not protected inside the school if it can be construed as dangerous to other children, such as promoting illegal drug use.

Want to see how much damage an activist judge can do to a bipartisan law? Check out Chief Judge Roberts' opinion in FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION v. WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE, INC.
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The Department of Homeland Security has had a large number of security breaches over the last recorded period. Chief Information Officer Scott Charbo comes from a background in ... . agriculture. Why is someone with a degree in biology running the DHS IT department?

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