It is a huge win for local educators and parents who are fed up with Washington mandates, red tape and regulation.

He said all these things he was going to pay for through a tobacco settlement. There is no tobacco settlement. Who knows whether there's going to be a tobacco settlement?

One more report on school violence and one more conference on school safety won't make a single American school safer.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Only those who have never left Washington have missed the lessons of the last decade,

At times we looked like the Washington Generals on defense. Their guys were wheeling around in the post and laying it in.