(www.dailybreeze.com) The real secretary of education, the joke goes, is Bill Gates.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been the biggest player by far in the school reform movement, spending around $200 million a year on grants to elementary and secondary education.
Now the foundation is taking unprecedented steps to influence education policy, spending millions to [...]

(By Huffington Post- Tom Vander Ark)
The WSJ reported that “The US government doled out $502 million for a dozen wind and solar energy projects.” The big winner was Iberdrola, a Spanish wind giant. Coming in second was Horizon, a subsidiary of a Portuguese firm. Third place went to a UK-owned firm. These grants will likely result in [...]

NPR, no hotbed of Conservative/Libertarian thought, aired the following on Sunday, September 6th 2009. The piece aired on Weekend Edition and was preceded by a nearly 8 minute story on the rise, and necessity, of labor unions.
This story examines three people who have struggled through economic hard times. The irony is that, after [...]