* original video site Also: 84th Floor West Office 12 People Trapped
September 2012
September 11, 2012
“For those of us who lived through it, it will be a day we never forget.” [Darleen Click]
September 10, 2012
Oh, my!
This is quite unhelpful. Quite unhelpful, indeed. Visigothery, is what it is. Hobbitry of the worst sort. And it must not stand! In fact, I feel complicit in the rape of reason itself just for having linked to the thing. It’s impolitic of me. Politically unpragmatic. And frankly is suggestive of a lack of good and proper breeding. Forgive me. Sometimes my trashy public school roots find their way up
September 10, 2012
“79% of Chicago 8th Graders Not Proficient in Reading”
…obviously because striking Chicago teachers aren’t being paid enough for the job they’ve been doing. I blame Bush. And Republicans in general. Whose hatred of education sometimes accidentally rubs off on Democrats in broke-ass Democratically controlled cities, forcing them to hate education, too.
September 10, 2012
“Do High Taxes Raise More Money?”
Depends on what you mean by “higher,” I guess. Generally speaking, though, no, they do not. As a review — and as a way to brush up on your economic responses to the left claims that “we can’t afford” to “pay for tax cuts,” etc. (your ideological response should naturally be that the government doesn’t pay for tax cuts, but rather overspends and wastes the tax revenue it already collects;
September 10, 2012
Chicago teachers threaten strike
In 2011, Chicago public schools showed a 40% drop out rate. So of course Chicago teachers have a right to ask for a bigger slice of the taxpayer-funded public sector union pie. Because if 40% of students are dropping out, that means 60% of students aren’t. 60% = D-. D- = passing grade. See? Success! The best thing that can happen to this country is for it to undergo that
September 10, 2012
Obama & his Poodle Media’s bad faith: The True History of Simpson-Bowles [Darleen Click]
Obama is doing everything to distract from his dismal economy including using the new propaganda organs with the Orwellian “factchecker” labels to toss chaff into the discourse. Such is their attempt at trying to saddle Paul Ryan with the defeat of Simpson-Bowles How dare the upstart Republican blister Mr. Obama when Mr. Ryan himself refused to endorse the final product! Mr. Ryan even had the impudence to say that Mr.
September 9, 2012
Caption this … [Darleen Click] UPDATED
“I may be the Vice President, but I’m just a working-class guy and I’ve got a wrench in my pocket to prove it.” h/t The Right Scoop with some other interesting pics from Ohio. ************* update I cannot bring myself to post this one directly. Just, ewww.
September 9, 2012
Public Employee Unions — why thuggery in Costa Mesa, CA, matters to you [Darleen Click]
Because, really, do you believe this is anything new? California city officials typically spare police officers even modest reductions in the pay and pension packages that are a main source of local budget problems, even when the other alternatives are cuts in public services or even municipal bankruptcy. The common explanation is politicians are afraid of the cop unions’ political muscle come election time. That is true, but disturbing behavior
September 9, 2012
“The truth is increasingly irrelevant” [Darleen Click]
NRO’s Andrew McCarthy gets it You cannot cede the campus and the culture to the progressive, post-American Left for two generations and expect a different outcome. So even if Obama is the second coming of Jimmy Carter — and he has actually been much more effective, and therefore much worse — it is unreasonable to expect a Reagan-style landslide, and would be even if we had Reagan. The people coming