education

Newspaper article: Los Angeles – A California judge ruled that parents without teaching credentials cannot legally homeschool their children, and then asserted, "Parents do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children." News conference: "Ladies and Gentlemen of the media, thank you for attending our Posturing and Image Management Event today. I will now turn the proceedings over to our Chief Legalcrat, Sue Pantzoff, Commissar of the Department of Unjustified Prosecutions for the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia." "Thank you Mr. Flack. There has been so much debate over this ruling during the past few months that we finally decided to stage this happening during primetime to clarify the state's position and to give myself a photo op."

The folks at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services have devised a new citizenship test for those few illegal immigrants who, for some unknown reason, are actually trying to become lawful citizens. The new questions, the USCIS claims, are calculated to better measure how well newbies understand what it means to be an American rather than how well they can memorize answers. Of course, most libertarians are convinced that most natural born citizens don't know what it really means to be an American either.