Did you know that we are spending $10,000 per student at the Federal level alone?^[1] I certainly did not. What is the Constitutional justification for all this spending? Where does all that money go? If the states and the teacher’s union are to be believed, it is not reaching the classroom. Granted that, why should we be spending it?

1. Mr. Dan Mitchell. “America spends too much on education, not too little” Dan Mitchell’s C-Log, www.townhall.com. 2006-01-18 http://www.townhall.com/blogs/c-log/Dan%20Mitchell/story/2006/01/18/182943.html

I wonder if a recent move to have the European Union will push proposals to punish and perhaps expel member nations that do not approve of homosexual “marriages.”^[1] If they do, I wonder if they will fragment over it. How many countries will have the guts to stand up to it?

1. Catholic News Agency. “European parliament to punish countries that do not approve homosexual ‘marriage’” www.catholicnewsagency.com. 2006-01-19 http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=5781

Harvard economist Mr. (Dr.?) Roland G. Fryer finds that black and Hispanic students discriminate against academic achievement if they are less than 80% of the school population.^[1] This partially confirms similar research cited by Boundless.

1. National Center For Policy Analysis. “Who’s Acting White?” www.ncpa.org 2006-01-19 http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/dpdarticle.php?article_id=2786

One of these days doctors are going to become more wary about diagnosing people as being in a “persistent” or “irreversible” vegetative state. Most recently, it almost, and might still, cost a young 11 year old her life.^[1] Preferably, such a diagnosis would cease to be a death sentence, but considerable more reluctance would be a significant forward step.

1. BBC International News. “US coma girl responds to stimuli” BBC News. 2006-01-19 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4627248.stm