Conservative commentator Steve Forman is outraged! What stirred him up enough to write:
This is nothing more than a power grab by the executive branch. Anyone who supports separation of powers should oppose this.
Is it the President asserting that he doesn't have to accept Congress's decision to put minimum standards for a FEMA director? Or the White House insisting that courts can't rule on its warrantless surveillance of American citizens? Congress stripping people of the right to habeas corpus?
No, Forman is OK with all of that. The problem is suggesting that Kansas' education system ought to be run by an appointed specialist confirmed by the legislature rather than an elected Board with no statewide influence.
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I take it that the enterprise of SEED and scienceblogs, in its framing as a public conversation about science, is to argue about science. So, below, a quote from Isaiah Berlin.
Local radio host Steve Forman quotes the World Nut Daily:
A Carnival of Education is up! I don't know that the plague theme is entirely encouraging, but as we creep towards the end of the term, it feels like it is entirely appropriate.
In this month's issue of Search Magazine (formally Science and Sp