Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Instapundit.com - Hurricane Katrina Link

The inimitable Instapundit has a list of aid agencies here: http://instapundit.com/archives/025235.php

A brother-in-law who was in the Pentagon 9/11/01 was particularly impressed with the work of the Salvation Army. That's not statistically significant, it's a datapoint which I find useful.

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Nevada needs teachers; hat tip: Joanne Jacobs

joannejacobs.com: Nevada needs teachers
And the legislature wastes no time demonstrating that fellating the teachers unions is way more important than doing right by the kids:

"The district is importing English-speaking teachers from the Philippines and 'bilingual' math teachers from Spain, but legislators rejected alternative certfication, notes the Center for Education Reform."

Click on the link up top and read it all!