Revisiting Barack Obama’s education speech, this bit near the beginning touched on some interesting themes: I know there are some who believe we can only handle one challenge at a time. They forget that Lincoln helped lay down the transcontinental railroad, passed the Homestead Act, and create...

Hillary Clinton, who will not receive the Democratic Party nomination, is claiming that she has won the majority of the popular vote. That’s true… if you do not count the votes of any people who voted against Clinton in Michigan, and if you do not count the votes of Iowa, or Maine, or Ne...

I usually don't fall prey to year end reflection (and thanks to Airam's question, I certainly have), but it has been a weekend of visitors and news. All visitors and news were good, great even. And yet, as I sit here on one of the last Sunday nights in 2007, I am left to thinking about the counterfa...