It is difficult to determine just what specific curriculum changes the Texas school board has in mind, though the ringleader of the revisionist faction, a creationist weirdo named Don McLeroy , strikes me as one who wants to impart ideology into the textbooks, not balance. Historians, it seems, are also skeptical .
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Don’t Mess With the Texas Curriculum
Here’s something for you “Constitution nuts” to enjoy. George Mason University law professor David Bernstein, the author of several superb law review articles on the Supreme Court case Lochner v
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Constitutional History
From our April issue, Veronique de Rugy notes that it’s been a long time since economic policy was forged in the states.
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New at Reason: Veronique de Rugy on the Death of Fiscal Federalism
Today’s episode of Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey is titled ” Taking Care of Business ” and details the various ways in which The Mistake on The Lake makes it tougher than tough to start and operate businesses within the city’s limits. Well, what about the dump you call home?
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Open Thread: Is Your Town Pro-Business? Anti-Business? Let Us Count The Ways
First, the good news . The Mississippi House of Representatives has passed the bill requiring anyone doing autopsies in the state to be board certified in forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology. The bill now goes to Gov.
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Breaking, Bizarre News in Mississippi
Since the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects people’s freedom to talk about politics, even when they are organized as corporations and even when an election is approaching, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig has been tinkering with the Constitution in his legal workshop. Here is the result : Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to restrict the power to limit, though not to ban, campaign expenditures of non-citizens of the United States during the last 60 days before an election
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Larry Lessig’s ‘Simple’ Solution to Excessive Speech
Episode 1, The Decline of a Once-Great City Sixty years ago, Cleveland was a booming city full of promise, opportunity, and people.
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Recently at Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey Episodes 1, 2 & 3!
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) tried to sneak an amendment to revive D.C.’s voucher program into the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization yesterday
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Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Fails to Save D.C. Schoolkids from D.C. Schools
As I noted yesterday , Congressional Democrats hoping to pass a health care reform bill seem to be hitting snags with the Congressional Budget Office. Their problem isn’t the Senate bill, which is already set, but the language in the reconciliation legislation that would amend the Senate bill: As this helpful piece in the Post explains, reconciliation bills have special budgetary requirements that may be difficult to meet given the Democrats’ other goals: Because Democrats are using special budget rules, known as reconciliation, to protect the package from a Republican filibuster, the measure must reduce the deficit by at least $2 billion over the next five years and avoid increasing the deficit in any year thereafter. Under normal circumstances, that rule would require the bill simply to contain enough revenue-raising provisions to offset new spending.
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CBO Not As Easy As ABC, 1-2-3
Speaking of journalism awards , Conor Friedersdorf’s recent list of 2009’s best journalism (which included a Reason piece ) has inspired resident OC Weekly Mexican and faith-challenged Angels fan Gustavo Arellano to compile his ” 10 Greatest Journalism Stories EVER ,” in which we see some more props for Radley Balko: * ” The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years .” Radley Balko and Jeff Winkler, Reason.com, 2009: Genius use of new media to eviscerate old media and make clear something most people probably didn’t realize but, once shown, agreed with wholeheartedly. Alas, there was no such love for nous in this New York University list of the best journalisms of the recently departed decade, though it’s hard to compete against the likes of Thomas L. Friedman , Ezra Klein, and Katie Couric. Read Contributing Editor Greg Beato ’s classic 1999 Suck.com piece about NYU’s top-100 20th century list here , then see Reason ’s more recent mini-interview with Arellano here .
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Reason Praised, Ignored, by List-Makers!
