Liberty
Trump Might Feel Better About PA Than Harris
Salena Zito writes for the Washington Examiner that former President Donald Trump has a good reason to expect positive news from Pennsylvania voters. “If we win Pennsylvania, we win the…
Pittsburgh Steelers
professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Education
Mascot madness attracts National Review’s attention
Katherine Timpf of National Review Online takes note of a mascot controversy at Cal State-Long Beach. California State University, Long Beach, has decided to do away with its “Prospector Pete”…
Liberty
National Review Online columnist ponders football’s future … and it has nothing to do with the anthem
Theodore Kupfer devotes a National Review Online column to the professional sport that dominates fall Sundays for many fans. All the pat talk about the declining ratings of the National…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
No, Republicans did not shut down NC New Schools
Yesterday, North Carolina New Schools, a nonprofit organization that specialized in developing early-college high schools, announced that they had closed. Representatives of the group cited “cash flow problems that were…
Education
Charlotte is not a “choice-friendly” city
In the Fordham Institute’s new study, America’s Best (And Worst) Cities for School Choice, authors Priscilla Wohlstetter and Dara Zeehandelaar rank 30 U.S. cities using measures of political support, policy…
Liberty
National Review editor explores lessons of losing
Rich Lowry‘s latest column at National Review Online focuses on the importance of learning lessons from loss. NFL quarterbacks fear Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison. So should participation trophies, the…
Liberty
And speaking of the Panthers
Speaking of the Carolina Panthers, James Dator of Cat Scratch Reader offers up an interesting column today on the situation facing the team. A highlight: We’re stuck in an emotionally…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Blackboard Jumble
Lefties appear perplexed by Lt. Gov. Dan Forest’s response to the NC DPI paper dump. So, let’s compare it to a school assignment. A teacher asks a student to write…
Liberty
Facebook: Panthers not so popular
Facebook has put out a map showing the most “liked” NFL team for each county in the U.S based upon the “likes” for pages on its website. I knew that…
Education
Won’t Back Down review worth reading
New York Post film critic Kyle Smith deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his review of Won’t Back Down. The rousing school-choice movie “Won’t Back Down” is (already!) inspiring teachers’ unions…
Education
The CTU strike and the future of education reform
View in your browser. Welcome On Monday, 30,000 Chicago Public School teachers and education personnel went on strike. In this week’s CommenTerry, I take a closer look at the three…
Education
How excellent is the Excellent Public Schools Act?
View in your browser. Welcome Last week, the Republican leadership in the North Carolina Senate released details of the Excellent Public Schools Act. Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, a…