Newt is not going to quit. He is going to continue to try and hold his cool, not go off on someone or about some issue. He is as smart as any one of them, continues to talk of solid experienced realignment of our government, and is ceaseless in his ability to embarrass and frighten the warm and soft/fuzzy core of the R party. A core that just wants to get a nominee and start working against an incumbent president.

One person’s charter school is another persons local educational sandbox. Rob McKenna suggests on his guber website that we look at Rocketship charter schools. (From McKenna’s website: “Permit and encourage highly innovative charter schools, drawing on the most successful models from around America such as KIPP, Rocketship and Harlem Success Academy.”)

Why today do we have so many tragic or silly bill introductions? Is it the weather? Are the lawmakers all bored and frisky?

Words, when used properly are so powerful. Of course there has to be some convention regarding meaning. There is the connotation which is similar but not the same as vernacular. And, the denotation with is closer to, but not the same as most formal definitions. And so on.

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