Schulz on Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?
Dark matter mapped in the universe for the first time
84% of Americans Exceed Their Parents' Income, 50% Exceed Their Parents' Wealth (link fixed)
Kids feel schools not demanding enough
Apple quits green standards
Accountant Claims Wrongful Termination Essentially Because Her Job Was Too Hard
WSJ: The U.S. Housing Bust Is Over
The Moral Case for Free Enterprise
Romney's good speech to the NAACP
Obama, the Pierre Trudeau of America
Morning Jay: Why Obama Is in Trouble
Let’s do the time warp again — Progressives keep urging those failed economic policies
Allen West targeted by new Soros-backed SuperPAC
From 6 charts that show the Welfare State run amok
– In the 1960s, there were 18 workers per Medicaid recipient. Today that number is 2.5.
– The number of Americans on disability has risen 19% faster than jobs created during this recovery.
– There are just 1.2 private sector workers per 1 person on welfare or working for government.
– There are now just 1.65 employed persons in private sector per 1 person on welfare assistance
More Gelernter:
If the academics ran America, what would happen?
His response:
Look around you. You would have people graduating from high school and from college who know no American history, who have no concept of what this nation is for and what it achieved, who have no concept of what the nation stands for, why it should inspire them, why they should take care of it, why it’s any different from Denmark or Norway or Portugal. You’d have students graduating with no grasp of literature, having barely glanced at any of the great and deep artistic and spiritual traditions of the West. You’d have students graduating in this country that emerged from the Bible, this biblical republic, who’ve never opened the Bible in their lives and who’ve been taught that it is toxic. You’d have students emerging from colleges like Yale with ideas that families as traditionally constituted are the problem and that the sooner we can do away with them the better, and that heterosexuality is one random choice on a very long and growing list. Look around you and you can see exactly what would happen. It has happened and it’s a tragedy.
