"It's the Romney-Ryan Plan; Why Not Romney-Ryan Ticket?" they wrote in a Thursday post, which dovetailed with the Wall Street Journal's editorial that same day: "Why Not Paul Ryan?" The two Weekly Standard writers returned Friday night with a post suggesting that their wish came true.
The standards writers would be aghast, but we've never gotten even slightly sick from it, and we never eat dry, flavourless chicken.
That leaves standards writers with the thankless task of trying to reconcile disparate camps.
At one point, the math standards writers met with a group of teachers from across the country to discuss a draft.
Such an approach to the common core has been taken up by the standards writers and is part of the current education "reform" movement.
Here's the kind of thinking that drives the education standards writers: "The costs of multiculturalism -- in terms of disunity, the clash of classes, and declining trust -- are likely to be huge in the long run.
Some of the standards' writers recall pushing back on certain details, pointing to what they saw as the strongest research and evidence on what knowledge and skills students need to succeed.
"The number of musicians who passed away at 27 is truly remarkable by any standard," the writer Charles R. Cross, who published Hendrix and Cobain biographies, wrote in 2007.
Others said Mr. Olbermann was being held to a strange standard; a writer for the libertarian magazine Reason, Michael C. Moynihan, wondered why MSNBC had a "one-size-fits-all policy" on contributions.
It greatly influenced the development of Spanish prose, setting a standard for writers who followed.
