According to USA Today, the Department of Education paid a commentator to promote “No Child Left Behind”. This is definitely not good for the Department of Education or Bush. If Bush knew about the payments taking place and supported them then technically this is an impeachable offense.

However, I do not like to jump to conclusions on these things. For one, it is not exactly known what part of the Department of Education the money came from and there are no specifics on who exactly made the payment.

Trent Duffy, the Whitehouse spokesman, had no comment on the issue stating that they (the White House) are not involved in the Education Department’s contracts.

It will definitely be interesting to see where this goes and what the investigation turns up.

There are 5 days until classes for the spring semester at Texas Tech University start back up. Am I excited? No, not really but I am ready to get back in the groove of having a clear schedule and having people back in Lubbock.

I was looking through my books (if you can really call them that) for Ethics and they are more philosophical entries on why people lie more than anything. If I have to write a paper on any of this stuff there may be some, if not a lot, made up. I think that is a pet peeve of mine, having people write papers over opinions and not facts. Then people get their grade back and some made C’s and others made A’s. Why? Was one person’s BS better than someone else? It’s an opinion paper, there is no right or wrong answer! Just give us the ‘A’ and move on.