A vast majority of tax payers think not. The ungrateful bitterclingers. ALG: A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 72 percent of taxpayers say they are not getting their money’s worth from public schools. How much money are they referring to? Well, the nation as a whole spends about $9,000 per student on the public education system. Of course that number varies state by state. But what’s more

Ten years, on the other hand? VICTORY! (h/t newrouter)

Rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll shows no immediate bounce for Obama. My guess is, most Americans feel like just doing your freakin’ job isn’t all that spectacular an accomplishment — even if it is a rarity that you’re doing so.

Canadians are waking up, it seems. And not a moment too soon. Portent? Or does the US really need to crash and burn before the masses look up from their facebook pages long enough to get an accurate lay of the land? (thanks to geoffb)

… vs. reality: To be clear: Obama should be commended for having the common sense to adhere to the policies of his predecessor — and for signing off on the mission that netted Osama bin Laden. But that’s about it. Instead, he seems to want credit for fortuitous timing, presenting himself as some sort of armchair general rather than a sitting Commander in Chief being briefed on operations in between

Well. Now that the $27 million reward I was counting on is off the table, it’s back to my original mode of financing. A shame, too. I was hoping to use the bounty to finance an off-Broadway production of “Prayer of the Rollerboys,” as well as to commission a 50′ Corey Haim sculpture — tentatively titled, “Corey Befriends a Stray Border Collie and Feeds it Peyote, then He and Seth

…will Obama finally pay for my gas and mortgage? Tick tock, my brother. Tick tock.*

To borrow from Flannery O’Connor, this is as natural to the mainstream media as breathing. But they’re misreading us. And that’s because at some point they really began to believe the “reality” they’ve been trying to create — one in which Obama is a competent statesman beloved by his subjects, and if the GOP would just go away, the Won would help usher us in to an Utopian age of

Mark Hemingway: Under Bush, JSOC was routinely smeared by the left and placed at the center of many Bush/Cheney conspiracy theories. Specifically, New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh alleged it was Dick Cheney’s personal assassination squad: “After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for

To which protein wisdom replies, “carrying out a plot that involves flying commercial airliners stuffed with US civilians into US buildings stuffed with even more US civilians means you’ve surrendered all claims to moral indignation — and in fact, you should be goddamn happy that when we jettisoned bin Laden’s rigid corpse into the drink we didn’t first tuck his dead ass into a pigskin scuba suit and braid his