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I just ran across this.
The Davis Board of Education voted Thursday to expel Davis High senior Adam Liston, then voted to suspend the expulsion and let Liston re-enroll in the district - but only as a student at King High School or the Davis School for Independent Study.

State law needs to stay out of things […]

I just received a comment on my post Another Stupid Application of Zero Tolerence that blew me away. Young Adam Liston had taken a buddy to a firing range and… well, let me use his words:
My name is Adam Liston. I read your article about the 14 year old and have a similar story that […]

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I’ve been having a conversation with some friends about securing our borders. Most of them believe we need to lock things down and stop illegal immigration. I agree with them on the illegal immigration part, though I know we can never completely stop it, but the locking down the border part I’ve had trouble with. […]

A number of my cynical friends, including a very good online friend, are entertaining the idea that maybe we know exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding and that he will be conveniently captured sometime this October. This is just a little too cynical for me to accept. That’s just giving a lot more credit […]

Heh, last Thursday I mentioned how Georgia’s state superintendant of education wanst to strike the word "evolve" from the state schools curiculum. Someone in the comments pointed to a website called KathyCoxEvolve.com but the link was broken. I clicked on it again today and it works. Check it out if you have the time.
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It seems that people won’t let it be. Yes it was deplorable but it’s done so let’s get on with life. But that would be too easy. Wouldn’t it? Let’s not spend taxpayers money on an investigation over this, let’s just tell MTV to stay away from the Superbowl and don’t buy any more of […]

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Dangerous Logic has an interesting entry on the armies attempts to reduce it’s artillery battallions. It almost sounds like some of the Pentagon brass would like to replace most of their artillery units with air support from the USAF. I don’t think this is such a good idea. Coordination and cooperation between the branches may […]

The score is 14 to 7 at the half. The half time show just went off and it was horrible. The commercials, so far, haven’t been all that great. All I can say is that I’m glad it’s a decent football game for a change.