It will most likely be a historic day when the Arkansas legislature votes to ban corporal punishment in schools because we’ll be in a race with Mississippi to be the last state in the United States to join the rest of the civilized world.

Meanwhile, good examples show the way. The New Mexico legislature voted yesterday to end the practice. That bill goes to the governor

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