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Here's something really creepy, and I learned it today just by happenstance:

Virginia has a State Board of Education. But no one has written anything about it. You can't find a general description of its powers, duties, membership requirements, authority, member terms, or anything like that -- except on its own Web site.

Now how 1984 is that???

In March, my workplace had our annual meeting at the Westin Alexandria Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. Right out my window was a huge courthouse with a massive statue of "Justice" in front. It's the Albert V. Bryan, Sr. Federal Courthouse. Bryan was a famous judge in Virginia history. (His son is also a federal judge.) Notoriously curmudgeonly ( Read more... )

I made the "Did You Know...?" section on the front page of Wikipedia today.
... that American lawyer Lloyd K. Garrison was chairman of the "first" National Labor Relations Board, the National War Labor Board, and the New York City Board of Education?

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Was the American Civil War fought over slavery? Or was the Civil War merely an issue of states worried that the federal government was invading their rights against taxation and regulation ( Read more... )

Chris Armstrong, the openly gay president of the University of Michigan Student Assembly, is being attacked daily by Andrew Shirvell, an Assistant Attorney General with the State of Michigan.

Shirvell has established five months ago the Chris Armstrong Watch -- an inflammatory blog that has called Armstrong "Satan's representative on the student ( Read more... )

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Last week, the news carried a number of stories about how the United States has dropped from 1st to 12th out of the top 36 developed nations in terms of the number of college degrees it produces each year ( Read more... )