Joe the Plumber: The Real Untouchable

Curt Eysink is an unpopular man. Less than three months after assuming his post as executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, he told a panel charged with overhauling the state's higher education system: "We're producing a workforce that we cannot employ in Louisiana." The apparent problem? Too many four-year college grads and not enough low-skill and vocational trade workers. …

American Competitiveness: The New Untouchables or The New Half Truth?

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a superficially compelling case for reforming education in pursuit of American Competitiveness. But is he overstating its promise?

Harvard Professor Plays the Race Card

Victimhood never flatters anyone. A Harvard Professor of African and African American studies allegedly baits officer into arresting him in front of his own home, and then cries "foul". Does the esteemed professor have a basis for the racism claim? Learn how to make a break with the "blame game".