BackboneAmerica

Besides nannying, mowing the occasional lawn and the seemingly full-time job that basketball and soccer demand, neither of us had really (more…)

Typically in the wake of disasters there is a mess to clean up. California’s interminable budget crisis qualifies as an ongoing disaster. (more…)

Heckuva week with grades due, service learning for a day, new students, training, ACT planning, substitute plans, coffee with a school board (more…)

What next? The Tea Party movement is simply not going to be co-opted by the Republican Party. It’s not a creation thereof, (more…)

Many folks in Denver are mad and appear not ready to accept our government as it currently stands. More than 5000 people made it a point (more…)

It is too obvious why Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Denver public schools this week: to boost Michael Bennet, (more…)

Tax, spend, borrow and regulate are the four horsemen of American socialism under Obama and Ritter. Intrusive government now tramples our liberties with a brazenness that would amaze those old Boston patriots who dumped the tea in ’73. Tea Party protests will happen in many cities on Tax Day, Wed. April 15. I’ll be taking part and so should you. Here’s the information you need. (more…)

There is lots of demand these days for government to “create” results. But policies pandering to that are misguided. Whether (more…)

I mostly listened to the Vice Presidential debate on radio, though I did get to see some of it on TV. Palin held her own and well exceeded (more…)

It’s hard to turn on the TV these days. The news and images from Washington are like a train wreck. The height of hypocrisy: (more…)

Hearing of the sex scandal involving government employees of the Minerals Management Service, my first thought was “Are they hiring?” (more…)