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This has been sitting in my stack of stuff since mid-December, so it’s time to FIFO the stack. Our Democrat Congressional Coven just can’t seem to let go of the idea that Government has to do everything for everybody at every time. Especially troubling to them is if Government ratchets up the regulatory environment, it can NEVER EVER be loosened.
Like with Net Neutrality.
Back from Dec 19th (updated based on the passage of the Federal Tax Reform bill): We no sooner get the Obamacare Individual Mandate jackboot off of our healthcare necks via the Tax Reform Act than this Republican Senate Jackal, US Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would be HAPPY to see the States turn around and put in their own Individual Mandates.
What the h*ll is he thinking, given that they promised to get rid of Obamacare.
Yep, still unwinding the stack and will be for quite some time. Couldn’t let this one go by without a quick thought and glad to see that Chris Sununu put a stake into this gawd-awful idea that Republican (you know, the Party of LESSER and cheaper government??) Executive Councilor Russell Prescott wanted to raise the tolls simply to speed up already planned highway fixes (if you’d stop raiding the Highway fund* you’da been there by now):
Gov. Sununu says he won’t allow highway toll increase
This is a bit long at a little over 15 minutes – but who’da thunk of all these types of records: bizarre! Yes, an easy day for me today – just taking it easy and wiping up the Grandson’s upchucking (yeah, I forgot about having to have to do this 30 odd years ago for … Read more
I am by NO means a gun expert but this headline at Fox was guffaw bait:
Man found with small arsenal on Houston Hyatt Regency’s top floor before New Year’s Eve celebration, police say.
Don’t worry, Fox, other media outlets had similar headlines but being more of a conservative outlet, you had NO one there to double check the copy first (that is, if he or she could stop laughing first)? You know – facts? Correct description? Then I saw what constituted a “small arsenal”:
Heh! Yet another “science based” climate alarmism prediction down the tubes: Say goodbye to Lower Manhattan, everybody! By midnight tonight, it will be gone forever—drowned by the melting icecaps of the disappearing Arctic…it will be a tremendous vindication for the expertise of James Hansen, the former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) … Read more
Well, it has been quite the year, hasn’t it? Certainly there’s been no dearth of issues, ideas, subjects, people, and pet peeves to write about (and the occasional Palate Cleanser along the way). The problem for most of us is not what to write about but getting the time to do so with family, friends, … Read more
Do you notice the irony of a giant tax cut motivating big companies to institute a $15/hour minimum wage for their workers? Could we at least get an “Amen!” from the Fight for 15 people?
Remember a while ago that agitators from various unions, especially the SEIU, were flogging and picketing fast food chains like McDonalds, Wendy’s, and Burger King, especially in bigger cities? They wanted the employees to step out of their stores and demand far more than what they were worth at the time. Led by union organizers from the SEUI (who could have cared less about their future members – they spent millions in trying to acquire millions of new dues paying members), they made it a national news story. While the cameras were out front, the unions were getting their faces into their Democrat elected officials to get their economic demands codified into law – notably in California and New York (who knew?) with the expected results now that the minimum wages are skyrocketing. So I have to laugh – Trump has screwed them all over. Instead of
That would be the Democrats and are well known as the Party of Government. Why not? It seems that most of the employees are tilted towards one Party and it aint the Republicans. Like this department:
VIRTUALLY EVERY DAY OF 2016, SOMEBODY IN DOJ DC WAS GIVING MONEY TO HILLARY: More than 2,600 individual donations were to the Clinton campaign by donors who listed the Department of Justice or one of its elements, like the FBI, as their employers. Their contributions totaled more than $416,000. Trump got a little more than $20,000 from a mere 61 such employees.
Only 268 of them lived in the Washington, D.C. but their combined total of more than $242,000 was half of all the DOJ/FBI donors to Clinton. That’s a drop in the bucket of $1.2 billion that Clinton spent in losing to Donald Trump but the huge gulf between DOJ backers of Clinton and Trump sheds additional light on why congressional Republicans are raising a growing stink about partisan bias in DOJ and the FBI.
I guess they did put their money where their mouths were –
Brash, loud, in your face, celebrations on everything – but they do have trick shot skilz! (H/T: LIKECOOL)
Candle, dragonfly, water, leaves; this has got power and the slow motion shows a bit of it. Yes, it’s a Barrett. (H/T: LIKECOOL)
Here’s her participation trophy – and that’s about all it means. Sure, that what she got (pretty much the margin came from Californiastan) but it never has and continues to never matter thanks to the Founders glorious mechanism called the Electoral College whose purpose was EXACTLY to not let the larger States determine the Presidential … Read more
Coal to the rescue as record cold grips the East That’s right – the natural resource that Obama declared war against (his promise to bankrupt any new coal fired electrical plant) from before his first inauguration. He poured billions of our tax dollars into “renewables” that basically only renewed the wealth of the politically connected … Read more
As Madison predicted, the greatest danger to the liberties of the people lies where the greatest power resides, which in a republic is in the majority of the people. By harnessing the powers of the majority, the progressives were able to overcome the barriers of the Republican Constitution. Having breached those barriers, however, progressives then … Read more
DHS: Deportations of Illegal Aliens Living Across U.S. Increase 37 Percent Under Trump Overall, Trump’s ICE agency in the full Fiscal Year of 2017 deported 226,119 illegal aliens, including those caught at the southern border and those arrested and deported from the interior of the U.S. This is a slight decrease from the Fiscal Year … Read more
I had been hoping for John Bolton but Nikki Haley has performed magnificently in putting America (and our interests) First instead of playing footsies in the UN swamp. Really like the “taking names” bit and no longer playing the kumbaya “one big world family” farce. (H/T: Powerline)
After all, at every turn our all Democrat Congressional delegation (e.g., Jeanne “Obamacare” Shaheen, Maggie “The Red” Hassan, Annie “I’m the most Progressive” Kuster, and Carol SEIU-Porter) denounced Republiacn Judge Ray Moore who was running to fill former US Senator and now US Attorney General Jeff Session’s Senate seat from Alabama on the basis of the allegations of sexual harassment. Frankly, I’m betting that it was mostly because he said he’d really support Trump’s agenda and would be a reliable vote. But now, we may really find out if the sexual harassment part was primary because now one of their own (a Democrat) is planning on running for Congress from Pennsylvania (emphasis mine):
A former Philadelphia judge named Willie Singletary has been in the public eye for quite a while and unfortunately for him, it’s not all been good. First, he was forced to resign after it was discovered that he sexually harassed a city cashier and sent her pictures of his genitals. He was suspected, and forced to resign after an investigation revealed some unsavory details.
“Wealthy families have the means to find the best school for each child. Should not all New Hampshire parents?” states Rep. Glenn Cordelli, R-Tuftonboro, for the majority of the Education Committee. HB 193 should pass (now, even the NH Attorney General says it is Constitutional). Afte all, “it’s for the children”! Oh, that’s right – … Read more
Behold – another Trump campaign promise being met: If you read the piece, this is supposed to be anathema and really bad news; so is the following chart showing that Trump isn’t filling all of the political appointment slots that he could be. Normally I’d go “so what, good start and keeping making it smaller” … Read more
If an average classroom size is about 25 students and we multiply that by the average spending, that gives us $275,000 per year per classroom. If you’re in a school with 40 classrooms that’s $11 million per year to run a school. “But Kira, not all that money is for the classroom. What about principals, staff, and other administrators at the district and state level? Surely those things suck some money out of the classroom.” You have pinpointed the exact problem. Indeed, much of that money does get funneled to staff and off-site administration. So much that in many places administrative costs have massively outpaced school population growth. In some states, like Louisiana, the public school population actually decreased even as administrative hires exponentially increased.
From 1950 to 2009 the student population increased by 95% while school personnel grew by 386%. In contrast, teacher hirings increased by just 252% while administrators and other school staff increased by a shocking 702%.
The actual post started from a very different place and wound up here – go read it. I will tell you how LITTLE