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There’s no such thing as a free lunch, especially with the federal government.  So it’s time education folks here in the state stop complaining about NCLB.  As long as we are willing to accept the money, we should accept the myriad of strings attached to those dollars.  If we want real educational freedom for our public schools, lets push our state office of education to stop accepting federal dollars.  When push comes to shove, my guess is that while the state office of education hates NCLB, they don’t hate it enough to turn away the dollars and in the end its our children who end up paying the price

I have been reading Joseph Story’s “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.”  I’m not a lawyer so at times it’s all I can do not to gloss over because of the writing style.  However, I have learned a tremendous amount about the intent of the framing and am slowly getting a better understanding of what constituted the proper role of government in the eyes of those who founded this great country.

Amidst all the legal detail, Story throws in the occasional gem of a quote and so I thought I’d share one of those gems I crossed over yesterday in Story’s comments on the “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” clause of the Preamble.

Speaking about our Founders, Story writes, “How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to chersich the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.”

For global warming advocates, history only works one way, meaning when it’s helpful.  But I’ve often noticed that when it’s inconvenient, either they ignore history or talk about it’s irrelevance.

The Case of the Mystery “Warming Island”

In early 2007, the greenland “mystery” island made headlines and was seen as the global icon for the movement.  The island was clear and convincing evidence the global warming was real and we were causing it.  (See http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail or http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/warm.php).

There is one small problem with all their assertions.  The “Warming Island” was actually an island back in the 50s, but Greenland got colder for the next 30-40 years, and so the waterway froze over again as it had in past weather cycles.

It is time we start holding these scientists to a far higher standard of research and stop giving them the benefit of the doubt until they begin to prove they are respectable scientists willing to submit their research to the highest of standards and critiques.

Here’s the ppt (http://politicalcivility.com/warming_island.ppt) which outlines the coast line of Greenland and the history of Warming Island and another hole in the dam of the global warming advocates.