Veritas Blog

As I scanned the paper today it seems that we are finishing off the year with a bang culturally. I always forget that this is the time of the year when nefarious and terrible ideas come out to ... Read More

Today, the state of Pennsylvania schools are applying for relief from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Here is the article:

Some of you might be keeping track of the economic trouble in Harrisburg, PA. It is something like a Shakespearean tragedy. The city is more than $300 million in debt. Why? Because of an ... Read More

Recently, the Lancaster paper has covered a little tempest in the Eastern Lancaster County School District (Elanco). (For full disclosure, I am a friend of and have a lot of respect for the Elanco ... Read More

There have been numerous speculations about my absence from the Leaky Bucket. Here are a few answers:

During this last week we all received an impromptu lesson in "the Politics of Offense". Eruptions of this volcano are happening often now, but this last week was a loud one. "The Politics of ... Read More

Here is an interesting story about Chinese "Communism" and how it changed and became more capitalist. The results are telling. Private property makes the incentive to work, to be frugal, to save, ... Read More

We are just at the beginning of the race for the White House and already fatigue is setting in for me. The reason for this fatigue is simple: I don't see real leadership happening anywhere at the ... Read More

I am exceptionally ambivalent concerning politics and politicians. This is not because I think that politics is unimportant and it is certainly not because I am ambivalent about the importance of ... Read More

I was away last week, but I returned to find this story on my desk: