Dave is a professional coach and a volunteer advocate for international liberty and international animal welfare.


America’s First Teenage President

March 17, 2010

The “Birthers” challenge President Obama’s eligibility to be president, questioning his country of birth. Some particularly skeptical critics think this concedes too much, and, citing the bizarreness factor, question Obama’s planet of birth. Now, a new concern trumps the issue of Obama’s place of birth—his year of birth. Yes, we somehow elected America’s First Teenage […]

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Bubbles: Let’s Pop the Illusion the Government Can Help

March 13, 2010

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting profile of Didier Sornette, director of the Financial Crisis Observatory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, “The Professor who Chases Financial Bubbles.” Dr. Sornette endeavors to identify bubbles and predict their course. My comment argues against the government being in the bubble business, so we […]

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Leave the U.S. Department of Education Behind

March 13, 2010

The White House today proposed rewriting the No Child Left Behind law. In a comment on Wall Street Journal Online, I suggest an alternative: abolish the DOE.

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Texas Textbook Trauma

March 11, 2010

The Texas State Board of Education will be making decisions concerning the social-studies curriculum guidelines, subject to the usual “culture war” conflicts. This year conservatives and liberals are lobbying the board with their opposing views of the role of religion in U.S. history, as well as which historical figures warrant inclusion in textbooks. Last year, […]

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