On the air with Neal McCluskey and Paul Goldman

On this week’s podcast edition of “The Score” radio show, Scott Lee talks with Cato Institute scholar Neal McCluskey about higher education spending, and whether all those college degrees society is paying for are really worth the money.

Scott also talks with former Democratic Party of Virginia director Paul Goldman about local schools, specifically, how the Richmond Public School system is using SAT scores from a regional Governor’s School to make its own numbers look a lot better than they are. Is this just a symptom of a deeper problem? And how do we fix it?

And Bearing Drift’s own Jim Hoeft gives us an extended “Two Minute Drill” to remind us all of a bit of history that some might have missed earlier this week: the 67th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. But it’s a remembrance with a twist: can you imagine a modern politician using the mass media as FDR did when he gave his radio address announcing the invasion? The folks at MSNBC would have kittens…

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Norman Leahy

Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Examiner contributor.