I may not be a scientist, but as a politician, I can tell when someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes.
Shipping in the Suez Canal is down 10 percent, due to piracy concerns, an amount equal to the downturn in the canal's usage caused by the do...
However, we have not--seen a resurgence of piracies in ways not seen since the 19th century.
Last year, piracy caused between $7 billion to $12 billion in damage to our world's economy.
I fundamentally believe that education is a local function, a state responsibility, and finally a federal concern.
We'd knock on doors, asking, `Do any of you read the reports? Who reads these reports and this paperwork that comes back from the states...'
We must work together to enact meaningful education reforms that encourage, rather than stifle, innovation and local flexibility.
We need to allow our educators the flexibility to decide what is best for schools in their communities.
These unmanageable mandates constitute a federal overreach into our schools.
Article 1, section 8 of our Constitution clearly gives Congress the ability to define and punish piracy and felonies committed on the high s...
we are paying more per kid than I think any other nation if you add everything together.