Hackman's Musings

This morning, while driving to work, I listened to the Glen Beck show. He had a guest host who was crowing about the Winsconsin scenario. T...

I was listening to the radio last week and the commentator was talking about the "bad teachers" in inner-city schools.  He had rec...

The Whipping Boy is the story of a boy who is selected to be punished for the misbehaviors of a spoiled Prince.  Since it is forbidden fo...

Newsweek recently parroted a thought that politicians love to hear: The reason America's schools do poorly is because we have bad teac...

Last year I wrote an article about why I believe inner-city schools score more poorly than their suburban counterparts. In the article, I ...

Last month, I wrote a commentary about President Obama's thoughts that we, as a nation, should consider lengthening our school day and ...

The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882. Labor unions are as much needed today as ever. They were created to protect workers from corpora...

I chose to read this book because I wanted to read something about curbing consumerism from a Christian perspective. Saying "Enough!...

No surprise, but I think Obama clearly outshone McCain. It seemed that with most questions, Obama told the American people what he was goin...

My wife and I just got done watching Michelle give an outstanding speech at the DNC. What a great first lady she is going to be! Here is th...

Our Utah Legislature is heating up again. Many are headed back with an enhanced hate-on for the public schools. Last year the legislature ...

If you listen to conservative talk radio hosts, you will get a regular dose of union bashing and the bemoanings of government interfering in...