Friday morning links

Schools as parents: Teachers and administrators want one main thing from parents: compliance.

Gatto is largely right, and it's a shame that Matthews has taken decades to reach and publish his conclusion.

Parents need to recognize this and be more active in electing effective school board members, and not leftist political operatives

HSR: Just think of what that $100B could have done for the nation's schools and cities!

Columbia LGBQT safe spaces: why should they get any more than 2% of the available safe spaces?

US cold Civil War: The alt.right fights ferociously. Prager is too far cucked to see that.

#1 DrTorch on 2017-01-27 10:11 (Reply)

Looks like the Border Patrol's Mark Morgan just found out what happens when you're "not a team player."

#2 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2017-01-27 11:11 (Reply)

My husband and I were talking about Trump's plan to pull funding from the NEA, NEH (didn't even know this existed!) and PBS. Why can't these lefties turn to their favorite social justice billionaires, like Zuckerberg, who has PLENTY of money and plenty of rich friends with money, who could sure pony up some of their wealth to support 'the arts' and 'the humanities.'

Surely a billionaire can convince other billionaires that 'Piss Christ' or the recent 'Vagina Mary' is worth a few million in order to 'promote the arts.'

Hey, liberals, put your money where your mouth is. Support the arts, if you think they are so important to support.

Meanwhile, I'd rather not tack on more and more debt to support things that are well outside the duties of the federal government. Thank you.

#3 MissT on 2017-01-27 11:16 (Reply)

PBS has regular funding drives. The Spokane PBS station reaches into Canada via cable, as far north as Edmonton, Alberta. Canadians have always been supporters of PBS, probably because they found programming there which wasn't available elsewhere (British comedy, certain musical groups such as Celtic Thunder and Celtic Women, etc.). One year, while watching the fundraiser, I heard the people from Spokane pointing out that Canadians - with no tax break - were contributing way more than Americans and it was embarrassing. The embarrassment obviously eased in subsequent years, as the disparity is no longer mentioned.

#3.1 Frances on 2017-01-27 20:51 (Reply)

re Shaken by Trump’s Criticism of NATO, Europe Mulls Building Own Military Force

LOL

Haven't they been "Mulling" improving their militaries for decades?

But when it comes time to write the check they would rather spend the money elsewhere.

I don't expect that to change.

Anyway, there are so many historical, ethnic, and cultural barriers involved in creating an EU military force that it is likely impossible to do so, even if they were very determined, which they are not.

#4 feeblemind on 2017-01-27 12:42 (Reply)

QUOTE:

Shaken by Trump’s Criticism of NATO, Europe Mulls Building Own Military Force

A militarized Europe. What could possibly go wrong?

#4.1 Zachriel on 2017-01-27 13:00 (Reply)

You are aware that Russia and China are already militarized and that doesn't bother you, why? Oh! That's right. You are mired in the 30's and fear the rise of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Did you speak up when Obama agreed to a nuclear Iran???

#4.1.1 SweetPea on 2017-01-27 16:35 (Reply)

SweetPea: You are aware that Russia and China are already militarized and that doesn't bother you, why?

Who said it didn't bother us? However, Russia and China didn't start a world war. One of the primary purposes of NATO is to keep the U.S. involved in Europe to prevent just that, another world war.

#4.1.1.1 Zachriel on 2017-01-28 09:33 (Reply)

Check out what the city of Atlanta looked like in the mid 1860's. Much of Detroit doesn't look much different today.

#4.1.2 indyjonesouthere on 2017-01-27 20:30 (Reply)

Z: A militarized Europe. What could possibly go wrong?

Actually, they weren't very effectively militarized or they would have been able to defeat Nazi Germany much quicker. But you seem to be making a much broader point that militarization in and of itself is the problem. In that case, it would have been so much better if the rest of Europe had just given up without a fight. Then all those buildings would still be standing.

#4.1.3 mudbug on 2017-01-27 20:42 (Reply)

mudbug: Actually, they weren't very effectively militarized or they would have been able to defeat Nazi Germany much quicker.

Germany IS in Europe.

The major powers of Europe were highly militarized before both world wars. The U.S. has acted as a stabilizing influence ever since the end of WWII. Notably, there hasn't been another world war since.

#4.1.3.1 Zachriel on 2017-01-28 09:36 (Reply)

https://www.google.com/#q=A+GOP+regulatory+game+changer

The GOP has figured out that the Congressional Review Act allows them to deep-six any regulation going back to 1996 if the agency in question didn't bother to send a report to Congress, as they often didn't. If Congress votes by a majority to cancel the regulation, the agency is prohibited from proposing anything similar unless Congress enacts new legislation specifically permitting that approach.

#5 Texan99 on 2017-01-27 17:25 (Reply)

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Friday, January 27. 2017

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