Tag: education

“Government shouldn’t be in the marriage business” — Yeah. So WHAT?

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Imagine for a moment that it was the prevailing practice in public schools to require mandatory Christian prayers services, and that students could be paddled, suspended, or expelled for failure to participate. I am convinced that a certain block of “libertarians” would be saying, “Let’s just focus on getting the government out of education altogether! … Continued

Where’s my SWAT team?

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In one of those, you’ve-got-to-be-shitting-me stories, Radley Balko, at the Agitator, reports that NASA has a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team at the Kennedy Space Center–in case, you know, we find ourselves sucked into an alternative sci-fi universe where NASA needs quasi-military tactical response teams. It’s reasonable, I suppose, for NASA to have security guards—but … Continued