In speaking and writing about the current status of Texas public education reform, I am often torn, in the metaphor of the drinking glass, between the half full and half empty portions and sometimes criticized for my emphasis on the half empty portion. So let me start with the half full portion.There is no doubt […]
Archives for May 2004
The US/EU Divide
The recent addition of ten nations to membership in the European Union is a good time to revisit the rift that exists between the U. S. and certain EU members, mainly of “Old Europe”. A number of political players and commentators, chiefly those who disapprove of the foreign policy of the Bush administration, would have […]
Freedom For What?
Notwithstanding the talk show debates ad nauseum about the reasons for the U. S. intervention for regime change in Iraq, WMDs, etc., it cannot be denied that a high priority, maybe the highest priority, for George Bush is the expansion of freedom in the world and the introduction of democracy in the Arab Middle East. […]
More On Jobs, Outsourcing, And The New Realities
I continue to be amazed at how CNN’s Lou Dobbs and a number of fellow-traveling politicians are consistently able to bash U. S. companies with impunity on a daily basis for their outsourcing strategies, while corporate leaders seem too cowed and intimidated to make any attempt to defend themselves. It has been called “the great […]
Early Reflections On The Presidential Election
It is still early and there are too many uncontrollable variables to be confident of any settled trend lines, but here is my take on the defining issue in the Bush/Kerry race, and it came to me as I attempted to collate several op/ed pieces that recently appeared during the same week: David Brooks confessed […]