Commentary - America's Future

By David Adesnik • May 07,2009

The art of war and junior girls basketball

Malcolm Gladwell has unearthed another gem. It is the story of Vivek Ranadive, an immigrant from Mumbai who founded a software company in Silicon Valley. Mr. Ranadive volunteered to coach...

By David Adesnik • May 07,2009

Obama, herald of change

In the words of the certainly-not-conservative Jeffrey Rosen, Barack Obama is trying to split the difference on torture. He wants to move forward–no messy dwelling on the Bush-Cheney era–except that...

By David Adesnik • May 07,2009

x=3.5

Sonny, shouldn’t your sample equations that have integers as their solutions? Anyhow, on the subject of teacher accountability, let me throw two links your way. First, there’s an article in...

By Sonny Bunch • May 07,2009

Dept. of really dumb analogies

In April 1858, perhaps as many as 700 black settlers—about 14 percent of the blacks then living in California—began an exodus from San Francisco to Victoria, British Columbia, 750 miles...

By Sonny Bunch • May 06,2009

What’s wrong with standardized testing?

That’s an honest question in response to a very interesting discussion happening over at The Scene and the OG hood. Conor pins the blame on teacher’s unions and the difficulty...

By Sonny Bunch • May 05,2009

Some light football blogging

Apparently Brett Favre is coming back. Again. Mind if I rant for a minute? Didn’t think so. I’m a lifelong Packers fan, grew up worshipping Brett Favre. I will routinely...