If there’s an SAT exam in your future or that of your child, don’t worry about scrounging up a perfectly sharpened No. 2 pencil. You have outlived the paper era of the college entrance exam. Starting ...

Keep typing until it turns into writing. -- David Carr-- legendary newspaper columnist, editor, and advocate of the “pencil test,” a so-called “BS detection tool” described below. Only half-joking, ...

One can debate the amount of the block grant, but to pass any Sharp Pencil Test, block-granting Medicaid is the only way to go. President Obama and the Democrats oppose this. One reason is that some ...