29 December 2010 - Granite Grok

December 29, 2010

When you hear the Educational-Industrial Complex saying that we don’t spend enough money…

…and that’s why our kids test so badly, I just shake my head.  How much do they want?  Really? And ask them – where are the better results for that larger amount of money?  You are supposed to be providing a service – educating our children.  It is obvious that the service is lacking – …

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Sticking to Basic Competencies ?

Over at The Corner (emphasis mine): The blizzard is definitely a force for conservatism, and not only because it has had the global-warming crowd scrambling for explanations. The blizzard reveals something basic:  Liberals in government want to tell us what to eat, counsel us about how and when to die, and in general attempt to …

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Conventional Wisdom – The Republican DEMolition made us safer. Skip’s wisdom – au contraire; and let me tell you why!

Many of us on the Right breathed a sigh of relief when we saw that the majority of the US House swung to the Republicans.  While not booting Reid out of the Majority Leader’s seat in the Senate, the gains by Republicans there got an approving nod as well.  Why not?  America expressed its political …

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Welfare – providing the basics

I have no problem in providing a basic safety net.  I do, however, have a problem in defining "the basics" upward to include more and more and more: SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco has finished installing free Wi-Fi in its public housing facilities as part of a citywide housing improvement initiative. Mayor Gavin Newsom and …

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“Food for Thought”

Yeah, our politicians and educators are homing in on the important item: Food for Thought Commenting on yesterday’s NRO editorial about first lunch lady Michelle Obama, Corner fan John, a local teacher, e-mails “A sample menu item for NYC public schools in January: ‘Mediterranean Roasted Chicken, Whole Grain Rotini with Fresh Herbs, Ellie Krieger’s Tri-Color …

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Ancient Chinese Secret

In an amusing week for Carol Shea-Porter, in which she almost sounded McCarthyesque in her suspicions of Chinese communist cash infiltrations into the campaigns of domestic candidates, how long can it be before she blames her 2010 election loss on Global Warming?

What’s with these jokers – yet another Lefty deciding that social conservatives ought to pack it in…on Gay Marriage

Oh, Parental Notification is "settled".  Abortions for minor girls is "normal".  Government bureaucrats coming between parents and their underaged girls is just "dandy" – and one more example of The Left Press winding up!  Next up – Gay Marriage!  Another case of "Don’t waste your time….that’s already been voted on!". Sorry, Mr. Joe Solmonese of …

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Low Road To China

Carol believes what she has been told by Nancy Pelosi and the influence peddlers in her own party, believes it so strongly that she could never be bothered to accept that the truth was anything more than the opposition “pushing back.”

Should every town have its own PRIVATE low-power FM radio station?

Why not? The political/government/ruling classes think this will be a big win for them, with little left-wing FM radio stations springing up, all funded by local tax money…they think. But not so fast: The Tea Party Movement, the constitutionalists, the 9/12ers, the Libertarians, the free enterprisers, the Patriot Movement, the Free State Project—all those who …

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