The Defense Department has followed up on the tragic shooting deaths at Fort Hood, Texas with a report aimed at identifying policy areas that may need revision to prevent similar incidents in the future. Included are a few recommendations dealing with policies toward...
Say what you will about the propriety or necessity of "conscience clause" laws that require employers to allow medical workers to refuse service that violates their religious beliefs. Depending on how the rule is worded, I have mixed feelings about it...
According to the Houston Chronicle's Texas Politics blog, the Education Board was unable to complete work drafting new curriculum standards and decided to adjourn without finishing. They will resume their work in March, pushing the final vote back to May. The...
In addition to monitoring the Texas Board of Education meeting on revisions to the social studies curriculum today, an awful lot happening in church-state news. Here's a roundup: The Tennessee legislature seems to have abandoned all efforts to acknowledge the...
The Texas Board of Education worked late into the night Thursday on proposed revisions to the social studies curriculum, making it through Grade 8 but not yet into the most contentious debate, over high schools standards. Full sympathy and respect go to the Texas...
A Ten Commandments monument in Grayson County, Kentucky that had been ruled unconstitutional by a federal district judge was reinstated by a 6th Circuit appellate decision today. By a 2-1 vote, the panel determined that the message and purpose of the display was not...
