In response, black groups accuse school personnel of practicing genocide and menticide (miseducation) for allowing black children to get away with conduct they would not condone in white children.

House Republicans had an additional worry. For all their Sturm und Drang, few provisions of the Contract With America had actually made their way into law. And their leadership had committed a serious tactical error when it shut down the federal government during a November 1995 budget dispute with the White House, a maneuver that backfired when the public blamed the Republicans, rather than Bill Clinton, for the fiasco.

Without wishing to skite, the only other accurate prediction on 2015 was penned here by your columnist last January when we accurately forecast that all the forecasts would be inaccurate.

I gazed greedily on the gems in the shop window.