y-intercept blog

The modern mind has a strange compulsion for making side issues foundational. Early in this blog I discussed how unity is not foundational. ...

In the build up to the Patreus Report, terrorists in Iraq killed a large number of people in hopes of influencing the reaction to the report...

Who can forget the inspiring figure of the Progressive, man-of-the-people, Hugo Chavez standing before the United Nations waving a copy of N...

I thought I would take a quick second to disagree with the following quote from the Newshour : HENRY PAULSON, U.S. Treasury Secretary: The l...

I support the Utah voucher initiative because I think it will lead to a Renaissance in teaching techniques and new curriculums which will ...

Bringing forth peace is one of the single most difficult problems faced by mankind. The annual awarding of the Peace Prize is a welcome even...

The Democratic Congress did a great job yesterday showing how they would solve the problems in the Middle East. The method is simple: You sc...

The alienated wannabe is one of the few local bloggers in favor the voucher proposal. The reason for his position is that public schools te...

I took Coco on a quick walk up Mount Aire in Mill Creek Canyon. The trail had recently been dusted with snow and was a bit muddy but not imp...

The reason I was seeking an education degree was because I had developed methods that would allow school to teach Calculus at a much earlier...