Donald B. Hawthorne
Several interesting reads about Iraq, Vietnam and warriors: Frederick Kagan: Al Qaeda in Iraq – How to understand it. How to defeat it. Victor Davis Hanson: The Former-Insurgent Counterinsurgency Robert Kaplan: Rereading Vietnam (h/t Instapundit) The Kaplan article is a particularly rich piece and worthy of a close reading. Here is what Villainous Company writes…
A lot of words are being said as the East Greenwich teachers go out on strike. Many of the public comments by union officials and some teachers have nothing to do with the facts. These contract negotiations and strikes are not about doing right by our children or about education. They are about maximizing adult…
I will be on John’s radio show at 9 a.m. this morning to talk about the East Greenwich teachers’ strike. TIMING UPDATE I will now be on at 9:30 a.m. instead of 9:00 a.m.
You heard it here first: East Greenwich teachers will strike on Tuesday morning. More thoughts on their illegal strike here. UPDATE: ARE THERE REALLY 8-12% ANNUAL SALARY INCREASES IN THESE CONTRACTS? Regarding Bob’s comment of “I am certain no one is asking for such high pay increases, as you propose…You might want to get accurate…
Here is the latest on the East Greenwich School District teachers’ contract status: The NEA voted last Thursday to let their negotiating team call a strike. The current contract expired last Friday. There was a special School Committee meeting last Saturday. Tuesday is the first day of school. Teachers are paid prospectively and, because of…
In a prior post, these words were written: It is incredibly ironic that it is now the labor unions who spend lobbying monies like a Fortune 500 corporation – just so they can protect their powerful monopolies. Underperforming monopolies at that!… [On the other hand], this belief in freedom also leads [others of] us to…
A lot of fur is flying in the Comments sections of various posts on teachers’ union contracts. If you want to get some good information on such contracts in RI, your best bet is to go read the three annual reports by The Education Partnership: Teacher Contracts: Restoring the Balance (Volume I, 2005) Teacher Contracts:…
With a h/t to National Review Online, here is a perspective on the revolt by Iraqi tribes against al Qaeda, with the author – Australian Col. David Kilcullen, who just completed a tour as senior counterinsurgency aide to U.S. commander General David Petraeus – offering this “tentative conclusion:” As we all know, there is no…
Last night was special. As I sat working in the family room, I had the Red Sox game on in the background. Clay Buchholz, a rookie pitcher making just his second major league start, was steadily getting outs. Suddenly the game began to demand more attention – at least in the top half of each…
Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig has resigned. With a h/t to Instapundit, I found these comments from Eric Scheie on the Craig story to be most amusing: I realize that there are things missing in this analysis, and of course the biggest problem is that it does not involve actual sex, but the perception of…