December 22, 2006 RSS feed / Opinion/Crime

No Child Left Behind is ruining education

When President Bush sent legislation for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to Congress in 2002, it received overwhelming bi More...

It’s not a criticism, it’s an observation.

A walk in the woods with Dad = the best present

It stands alone in the back of the closet; dusty, neglected, nearly forgotten. I remove it on occasion just to brush the residue from the barrel. When I take the gun in my hands, time retreats nearly four decades. I More...

Heading home for holidays

Young Andy is at a Christmas party with some of his teenaged friends. Most of them are sophomores at a Porter County, Indiana, high school. Andy looks at his wristwatch and notices it More...