September 1, 2010

Palin the Tactician

After Lisa Murkowski's gracious concession last night, Joe Miller is Alaska's Republican senate candidate. What drama!  As a relatively new Alaskan, I watched this contest unfold in the last few months from my vantage point in southeast Alaska, ...

August 15, 2010

Back to the Classroom

Another conservative teacher here, stepping up to the plate! It has been good recently to see teachers speaking up on American Thinker. I believe that our public education system will not be repaired until teachers speak truthfully and publicly about...

September 29, 2009

Poverty and the Poor Whites

Donna M. Beegle, PhD, is spending her career explaining to audiences that there is poverty in America, that the solution to poverty is education, and that too often poverty prevents people from getting educated.  A few weeks ago I heard Beegle s...

September 2, 2009

The CIA Is Not the Post Office

In his 1997 memoir A Spy for All Seasons, legendary CIA operations officers Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, implicated in the Iran/Contra scandal and pardoned by President George H.W. Bush, commented on the situation of the CIA during the Cli...