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Thursday, September 16. 2010

A few Thurs. morning links

Stories from 97 Orchard St.

VDH: When Socialism Creeps In . . .

Andres: A misaligned presidency.

Stossel: Money Is Not What Schools Need. No, but it's what they want. A quote:

"Over the past 40 years," Coulson writes, "public school employment has risen 10 times faster than enrollment. There are 9 percent more students today, but nearly twice as many public school employees."

Lies told to kids

WSJ: Union power and the Christie effect

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We keep hearing how "surprised" people are, especially independents, by the policies and the conduct of His Hopeful Changeness the Immaculation. How could any literate, engaged person possibly be surprised by the extreme positions that HHCI favors or the arrogant methods he uses? They were all apparent in his campaign speeches, in his books (whoever wrote them), in his manner and his whole presence.
My only surprises have been his conservative approach to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have angered his base, and his slowness to accept servicemembers who are gay, which has also angered his base.

#1 Geoff Brown on 2010-09-16 10:01 (Reply)

On the unions, some states could easily see the following amendment to their respective constitutions, via voter referendum:

"All laws of the state of X, making membership in a collective bargaining unit a factor in employment or promotion, are hereby repealed.

"No entity of the state of X shall enter into or extend any agreement or contract requiring it to hire exclusively or in any particular proportion from the members of any collective bargaining unit. Nothing in this amendment shall not be construed to invalidate any contract or agreement already in existence."

The unions would have a cow, and go screaming to DC to have pre-empting federal legislation enacted.

#2 John on 2010-09-16 10:09 (Reply)

I disagree with Ann Althouse on one thing:
the "lies" told to kids are important for them to achieve and grow.

If her point is that Obama doesn't believe this stuff...then she didn't really make that clear. But the SUBSTANCE of what he said is VERY important.

He is very naive...and her last sentence speaks volumes about how he is naive. But she should be more clear that his speech is fine - insofar as the goals it tries to instill are valuable and useful.

#3 Rick on 2010-09-16 11:25 (Reply)

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