In Irving’s story, Rip falls into a liquor-induced coma after encountering a gang of reveling little urchins one day on a mountain. Like poor old Rip, I feel as if I am dealing with an awfully bad hangover myself these days. For the past four months, the president has been pouring his socialist tonic down America’s throat, and now I am ready to vomit.
Thanks to the Democrats’ politically correct agenda, I have discovered that I am an American-Constitutionalist (A-C) as opposed to an American-Hooligan-Outlaw-Lawyer-or-Evolutionist (A-HOLE).
NOTE: Missing apostrophes and missing dash in this column are a formatting or technical glitch, not an utter void of a public school English teacher’s understanding writing mechanics.
"Caroline M. Hoxby is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education...” (www.hoover.org/bios/hoxby.html)
Finally, Obama’s Greek pillars in Denver make sense. In the Greek story of the Trojan War, Odysseus sought to gain entrance into Troy, so he cleverly devised a large wooden horse to conceal himself along with Greek soldiers...
A former Marine and high school English teacher, Lee is focused on completing his first book. It is a cocktail of
Full Metal Jacket meets Dead Poets Society. His writing offers a colorful, inside perspective on public schools and shares both uplifting and heart-wrenching stories about the teenage students who are a major part of his life. From the Corps to the classroom,
he emphasizes leadership and ridicules political correctness. Lee jokes that whether accomplishing the mission requires cajoling, comforting, or coercing, he does whatever it takes to inspire his students to think and succeed.
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