Congress has passed a bill authorizing the use of military commissions to try people suspected of terrorism and providing for restrictions in how such a person might defend himself against the charges.
Why is it, Secretary Spellings, that we are so graciously praising mediocrity and penalizing success? I want my children to learn so much more than how to answer multiple choice questions based on lower order thinking skills and how to fill in all the bubbles neatly with a number two pencil.
A Draconian smoking ban enacted in Washington state last year, which not only prohibits smoking inside buildings but within 25 feet of building entrances, has devastated restaurants and nightclubs, and led some state legislators to call for the ban to be scaled back.
The reforms advocated by the Commission for the Future of Higher Education and reiterated by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings are sweeping and invasive. Through No Child Left Behind, the Department of Education has successfully hindered the progress many schools were making toward greater proficiency. So we are going to extend these same principles to high school, and to colleges and universities which have long been viewed as the best in the world.
After the Supreme Court's 2005 eminent domain decision, saying that a government can take any property it wants for any reason it wants, or no reason at all, what is the future of property rights in America?
Four updates to news items previously covered at Homeland Stupidity focus heavily on immigration, border controls and terrorism, and include an update on the Western Hemisphere Travel-crippling Initiative, detention facilities for illegal immigrants, terrorism insurance, and intelligence.
The Lincoln Park (Mich.) School District passed a controversial dress code which prohibits school students from wearing T-shirts with any images, writing or political statements on them, including 9/11 commemorative T-shirts and copies of the First Amendment.
Every few months I like to update my regular readers on what goes on behind the scenes here at Homeland Stupidity. This fall there's some good news, some bad news, and from a few of you I need some help.
The incompetent morons at the Department of Homeland Security took a month and a half to figure out that, after British authorities announced a foiled terrorist plot August 10 which involved blowing up airliners with liquid explosives, that the threat is from liquid explosives, not from liquids. On Monday the Transportation Security Administration announced a loosening of restrictions on liquids and gels in carry-on baggage, to take effect Tuesday.
One of the greatest hypocrisies of No Child Left Behind since the beginning has been its "fourth pillar" of "local control and flexibility." Federal involvement by its very nature is the antithesis of local control, and every school is being forced to show more concern for following the federal mandates than addressing the concerns of the parents whose children they are responsible to educate or risk losing their funding. An internal review from the Department of Education Office of Inspector General has found mismanagement of funds and a violation of legal and ethical standards.
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