Comments on: When is Robert Byrd Going to Retire?

by: Steven Taylor

Fri, 17 Dec 2025 23:43:00 +0000

Methinks thou dost miss the point.

I teach the Constitution all the time–that isn’t the issue.

The issue is whether Senators ought to be sneaking in curriculum design into omnibus bills.

Further: perhaps someone ought to teach Senator Byrd the Constitution–it isn’t the role of congress in Article II to make educationsl policy.

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by: frodo

Fri, 17 Dec 2025 23:34:46 +0000

OOH yes. teaching the constitution is fraught with danger! I heard the people who wrote it were revolutionaries and radicals. Many were BAD UNCHRISTIAN PEOPLE. DEISTS and worse!

Better we should have legislation to teach the BIBLE!

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by: Hennessy's View

Sun, 05 Dec 2025 14:13:41 +0000

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by: Confessions Of A Political Junkie

Sat, 04 Dec 2025 23:13:03 +0000

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It is a strange day in the annals when I agree with Robert Byrd and disagree with Betsy Newmark. Besty posts: Steven Taylor blogs about something that Robert Byrd is slipping into the budget resolution to require schools that receive federal money to d…

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by: Steven Taylor

Sat, 04 Dec 2025 01:28:45 +0000

Not to mention that if he thinks this is a worthwhile endeavor, he shouldn’t hide it in an appropriations bill, he should introduce it and have the Congress debate it.

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by: Steven Taylor

Fri, 03 Dec 2025 23:13:41 +0000

Perhaps.

But, of course, by that logic, Byrd should have a hand in desiging the fighter jets the Congress pays for and the bridges on interstate highways.

Legislatures ought to be setting broad policy goals and then hiring experts to execute them.

Micro-managing policy isn’t the Congress’ job.

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by: Trump

Fri, 03 Dec 2025 23:06:15 +0000

This doesn’t (and shouldn’t) bother me. Money comes with strings attached. So what? You want to take the Uncle’s money, you play by the Uncle’s rules.

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by: Rob M

Fri, 03 Dec 2025 21:44:53 +0000

Thanks to Sen. Byrd I now have an even better example of ways around how a bill becomes a law than some I pulled in the Florida Legislature.

Course a Poli Sci degree and 8 years in State and Federal Legislature and I am not sure I am qualified to teach the Constitution.

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by: Steven Taylor

Fri, 03 Dec 2025 16:49:29 +0000

As it stands there are almost no rooms on campus that accomodate more than 50 (and not all of the sections hit the max anyway). They are, however, building a new building that will have four classrooms with large (100ish, I am thinking) capacities.

We shall see how things develop from there.

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by: Chris Lawrence

Fri, 03 Dec 2025 16:40:12 +0000

45-50? Not so bad. (In fact, my smallest Am Govt class before Millsaps was 70; here, I’m considered to be overworked relative to other departments with just 27.)

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