They are ultimate, perfect libertarians. Rand Paul eat your heart out!

The government should not be constrained by market assumptions, such as that resources are limited because of efficient allocation. The government operates on principles, such as unalienable rights, that markets do not value.

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Let everyone get away with it. Try to transmit information. Information does not follow conservation laws: yoy can learn something as you teach it. You gain, the students gain. Use tests as voluntary exercises, where students are free to help each other, and can do the test ad many times ad they want without penalty.

Give up testing altogether. Help everyone get to an A+ level.

You've gone way beyond the true purpose of education in your draconian proposals. The true task of the educator is to help everyone get to an A+ level. Quoting Sebastian Thrun: "Grades are the failure of the education system."

http://singularityhub.com/2012...

The tests are the problem. When police are involved, your education has ceased to become about knowledge transfer. It is about control.

Tests aren't needed. They are a lazy, inaccurate way of assessing learning. Socrates needed no tests. Buddha never taught with a closed fist holding some knowledge back. Censorship promotes an effete monoculture, not innovation.

GOP-funded astroturf alert!

http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/... .pdf

"In 1839, Swiss immigrant John Sutter settled in what is now Sacramento and began building a private empire defended by a fort. [...] Sutters fort became a symbol of oppression.

"Native Americans worked his fields [...] Sutter would control the Indian people through a system of forced labor.

[...]

"In 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters sawmill set off a rush to California that would end the old world of the Sierra people and change their lives forever."

In other words, it started before the gold rush, but it could have been managed better without the blind greed of the forty-niners. It would have been slower, at least. Gold, the "barbarous metal".

Or you could just go Galt. Pretty please? Can I raise your taxes, to make you leave sooner?

The speeches Repubs are giving today are Calhoun with 'slavery' replaced by 'gay marriage' or 'abortion' or 'climate change'. Calhoun would win the Republican nomination.

Lincoln learned, unlike the conservatives of today.

In a speech delivered on April 11, while referring to plans for Reconstruction in Louisiana, Lincoln proposed that some blacks-including free blacks and those who had enlisted in the military-deserved the right to vote. He was assassinated three days later, however, and it would fall to his successor to put plans for Reconstruction in place.

http://www.history.com/topics/...

Conveniently ignore that greenpeace apologized and acknowledged it made a mistake.

Lincoln learned. He supported compensated emancipation, which the right-wingers of the day rejected for budgetary reasons, mainly; and ended up spending at least as much on the Civil War.

Calhoun's point of view is pretty much the same as the righties running today. The same rhetoric about "appeasement", the same paranoia about their way of life being destroyed. That is the essence of the right, and it is hopelessly backwards, on the wrong side of history.

No, the green revolution was a result of government research efforts that the private sector is too short-sighted to invest in.

Farmers are stupid sod-kickers who do ignorant things like kill prairie dogs out of paranoia, when actually the little critters help to irrigate the soil with their diggings.

The internet was rejected by the private sector. AT&T saw it as competition for their business model which was based on telephones. The right, which fetishizes the private sector, is not good at disruptive innovation. You need permissionless, disruptive innovation, not some rich capitalist telling you what to do.

From http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/...

"Miwok were great conservationists. Nothing was ever wasted. Game were killed and fish were caught not for sport, but to feed people. After they had inhabited this country for a number of centuries, the white man came and found the wild game plentiful, the streams fresh and clear, the air pure and clean, the timber uncut and the large deposits of gold still lay untouched in the foothills of the Sierras."

Compare to today: overpopulation, pollution, drought, clearcuts. There is much we could have learned from the native Americans; instead we greedily pursued the "barbarous metal" and ruined the land.