The takeaway here isn’t that “it’s for the kids.” We hear that every time a school budget comes up or another teacher union contract comes due. It is that IT is for the Union. Period. Full Stop.
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Notable Quote – Blame It on the Democrats That Blacks Can’t Spel
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If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities. -Prof. Walter Williams (Black Americans and liberty) Doubt him? If you are angry at that, or the title, start reviewing the … Read more
COVID, the Vaccines, and Poor Ol’Joe – A Musing
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Steve Earle
It would seem clear and apparent to even the casual observer that after someone has gotten the full recommended doses of vaccine shots they would not be getting the virus; it’s just not the case. Around half of those tested and found positive have had their shots.
Worse than Incompetent, Can Biden Survive Afghanistan?
It doesn’t take a military strategist to understand the precarious position America now faces because of Joe Biden’s feckless plan for evacuating Afghanistan.
Joe Biden – Boring but Dangerous
After months of promoting Joe Biden as an accomplished lawmaker, a gentleman politician, and a uniter, the best thing the media can say about him now is that he’s boring. The New York Times published a recent article entitled “Voters Chose Boring Over Bombast…”
How Would We Ever Know without Petey Buttigieg That We’re Doing It All Wrong???
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Pete Buttigieg – political wonderboy. Failed Mayor of a population 100K town. A failed candidate for President. A failed attempt at being a Combat vet. Now HE’S telling us we’re failing HIM?
Notable Quote – No, Government was never supposed to be “entrepreneurial” by design
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Do you remember how bad the Obama Administration was at being a “green Venture Capitalist” (think: Solyndra)?
These Are Not the Results of Experts at Anything but Failure
If the title looks familiar, it’s a sentence from this post, published a few hours earlier. The point? The people holding the reins to the public health trumps all sleigh are lousy at the job.
Risk Just Isn’t Fundamental, It Is an Absolute Necessity
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Risk just isn’t fundamental, it is an absolute necessity. This is one reason why Progressivism always fails – it is ALWAYS trying to not just reduce risk in Society, it tries (sadly) to remove it completely.
Notable Quote – It Isn’t “Implicit Bias”, It’s a Bias by Our Educational System
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Emphasis mine: “It’s the achievement gap, not systemic racism, that explains demographic disparities in education and employment.”
Notable Quote – “…of the Progressive Era were its greatest failures”
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[Progressives of the 1930s] were determined that their vision of the managed economy should take precedence in all areas of life. Although they purported to have great sophistication on economic and social matters, their understanding of those matters was primitive, and their disdain for the evident signs of social improvement colored their vision of the … Read more
Notable Quote – But Socialism HAS been tried….
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Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society. It has been tried in the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Albania, Poland, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Hungary, China, East Germany, Cuba, Tanzania, Benin, Laos, Algeria, South Yemen, Somalia, the Congo, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Angola, Nicaragua and … Read more
Why am I not surprised: “First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years”
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This is the opposite of what we were told would happen with trillions of taxpayer dollars and an entire generation of children who deserve not to have been guinea pigs in a failed national experiment. For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s … Read more
Obama- A Bad Investment Whose Turn is Running Out.
They promised jobs, cars, peace, good health, they’d save our homes, make peace with the world, and create a clean energy future. No more infighting, partisanship, dirty politics, special interests running things–nothing but sunshine and happiness.