>> Well, we know who Diane Rehm won’t be supporting for President in 2008: Newt Gingrich. The former Speaker of the House was on her WAMU-produced NPR show this morning, but ducked out 20 minutes short of his hour-long segment; Ms. Rehm was not pleased. “I think he just came on the show to sell his book,” a caller said, to which Diane replied, “I think so too, and I’m FURIOUS about it.” Another…

In a topsy-turvy world where Virginia’s Governor is a Democrat and Maryland’s Governor is a Republican, two recent moves in curricular politics seem to show that our enfranchised neighbors to the north and south are moving closer to being purple states. We mentioned in passing a couple months ago that in Maryland, Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum and Parents and Friends of Gays and Ex-Gays have succeeded in having a restraining order against the Montgomery…