Friday, November 28. 2014
 "Speaking as a person who went and got a degree in creative writing for some fool reason..."
Is Atheism a Specifically Western Phenomenon? Peter Berger - We know atheism in its Jewish or
Christian context, as a rejection of the Biblical God. What would
atheism mean in a Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist context?
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
How do you know someone is a vegetarian? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you within 30 seconds of meeting them
Early-bird shoppers turn out on Thanksgiving
The Long War Between Highbrow and Lowbrow
Shakespeare is pop culture. So is Verdi
Meet the New Warm Fuzzy Payday Lenders
A Feminist Look at Men
A bunch of great greenie quotes - here's one:
"In Nature organic growth proceeds according to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a ‘master plan’ is missing from the process of growth and development of the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late."
- Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
SCOTUS tackles free speech vs. true threats in Facebook posts
How immigration killed the tax deal - GOP didn't want to aid new class of immigrants; Obama balked.
Obama Offers $3,000 Bonus to Hire Amnestied Illegals Rather Than Americans
Obama to Amnesty Hecklers: 'Sit Down... Nobody's Removing You... I Just Took an Action to Change the Law'
Obama’s Immigration Plan Misses Chance to Increase A Crucial Group of Visas
Samuelson: America's Giant Welfare State
Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career
A cake shop we recommend
The media doesn’t want to avoid another Ferguson.
University Bureaucrat Won’t Let Ferguson Crisis Go to Waste in Trying to Look Busy
Students can call Counseling and Psychological Services at 993-2380 and speak to a counselor.
Good grief
Most Balanced And Fair-Minded Comment on Ferguson Comes From NFL Player
‘HANDS UP, DON’T SHOOT’ WAS A LIE: Testimony, Evidence Suggests Textbook Self-Defense Shooting
How Far Down Do You Define Deviancy in Ferguson?
Where's the Coverage? Israeli Arabs Prefer Israel to Palestinian Authority
Wednesday, November 26. 2014
I am thankful to those who contribute to Maggie's, and to all those who contribute links for our morning link dump. Besides randomly-interesting stuff, we like to link views and info which are neglected by the MSM.
Also, a thanks to other sites which we frequently neglect or forget to acknowledge as link sources - sites like RCP, Hot Air, Insty, Lucianne, Drudge, Vanderleun, and others. Thanks to y'all for your work.
We wish a Happy, thankful, and blessed American Thanksgiving to all of our readers and friends of all nations, creeds, colors, shapes, sizes, gender identifications, and cultures across our fruited plain and across the world.
Is it now OK to have sex with animals?
Taboos are so bourgeois and limiting of self-expression and self-realization
Are Women More Open to Sex Than They Admit?
Certainly. Everywhere I go, women try to seduce me
What it felt like to fly Concorde
An audio book review: Dan Stevens Reads Homer Translations
Prager University – Why Bad Luck is Good for you
Modern Feminism: Appalling Stupidity Backed by Hysterical Rage
An article set to produce countless spells of the vapors across American campi. Never leave home without your smelling-salts.
Common Core Will Fix the Nonexistent Gender Gap!
Private Oncologists Being Forced Out, Leaving Patients to Face Higher Bills
Believe me, you would always rather have a private doc than an employee of somebody else
Obamacare Twice as Likely to Hurt Americans than Help
Student mugged, says he deserved it because of his 'privilege'
This beta-male kid will eventually get his well-deserved Darwin Award
Read this yet at Rolling Stone? A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA
Thinking too highly of higher ed
California Teachers Suing Their Union Over Dues, Politics
People Starting To Ask About Motive For Massive IPCC Deception
Forget Ferguson, 244 Teenagers Have Been Shot In Chicago Since Michael Brown Died
13 Facts About Ferguson the Media Will Never Tell You
The Bonfire of the Ferguson Kabuki
No cameras, no riots. It's symbiotic. Riots sell - ask any TV network.
The New York Times and Other Members of the Ferguson Hall of Shame
NFL Star Reggie Bush Joins With Pro-Palestinian Activists in Co-opting Ferguson Tragedy
Legal scholars praise Ferguson grand jury for fairness beyond the norm
Preston:
The fact is, broken families and a culture that produces feral children are at the root of the vast majority of the crime and poverty and violence that plagues our nation. Not racism. Not the militarization or the overreaction of police. Not any of that. Broken families. A valueless culture. A vacuum of values, into which anything can move and take hold.
Is Preston saying that the guy had no choice?
RAW COURAGE: Papa John’s Female Manager Defends Store From Looters With Bare Hands
Giuliani saved thousands of black Americans
"Chuck Todd's out there... saying 'Obama nourishes me.' What are you doing? Breast-feeding?"
Schumer: Despite Midterms, ‘Public Knows in Its Gut’ That Big Government is Best
Williamson: Family Affairs - Political Dynasties and their discontents
Williams: Elite Contempt for Ordinary Americans
America, You’ve Been Grubered!
You truly can’t fool all of the people all of the time, and thanks to Gruber, the time of trusting liberals is drawing to a close. This is wonderful. Look, we conservatives always knew these clowns were pushing Marxy snake oil on a gullible electorate. Now, the truth is impossible to hide. It’s right there on video, and it’s Gruberiffic.
Poll: Latino voters want more, more, more
How Unskilled Immigrants Hurt Our Economy
Understanding the Nihilist in the White House - Obama is bent on destruction rather than creation, because destruction for its own sake is also part of the arsenal of nihilism.
(Peggy Noonan) often gets to a certain point in understanding someone or something and then stops, refusing to open the door of the room she stands before, afraid to look inside. Or she opens it a crack, takes a tiny peek, and then slams it shut.
Can't take the truth
Schneiderman:
Showing respect for Islam, speaking reverentially of Islam, calling Islam a religion of peace is precisely the wrong tactic.
One does better to respond to terrorism with contempt and derision, with force where need be, but without respect. If Islamic terrorism degrades the character and reputation of all Muslims, then it is for Muslims to restore their good name and the good name of their religion.
How have American foreign policies gone wrong?
Have they "gone wrong"? What is America's role in the world?
The making of a Gaza fighter
Profs Blame ISIS on ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Grievances’
Blaming the victims again
ISIS Blows Up Christian Church and Monastery While Muslims Cheer
Tuesday, November 25. 2014
I believe that the economy can potentially absorb five million additional gardeners and nannies. The challenge will be to create a corresponding number of rich young liberals to hire them.
Lawrence Sellin, here.
Ron Christie:
Last year, 76 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty, and I’m hard pressed to name one of them. Yet, high-profile cases such as the shooting deaths of Trayvon Martin and Mr. Brown in the present case have made these names well known across America and around the world. Their sad fame comes at the hands of those who push the narrative that white cops are motivated by racial animus to kill blacks. How else to explain the media ignoring the thousands upon thousands of blacks who die at the hands of other blacks but the sensationalized 24/7 coverage involved when violence is inflicted at the hands of whites towards blacks?
 Mary has electromagnetic hypersensitivity intolerance syndrome (EHS)
Of course she does...what else could it possibly be?
Scaffholding for Capitol Dome restoration finished
Giving Thanks at Cracker Barrel (h/t Althouse)
Millennials Miss the Mark on Free Speech
Parents Pepper-Sprayed and Tasered in Front of Kids - for having messy house
" poverty is the normal condition of man"
This is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned
Renewable Energy Will Never Work, But Can Nuclear?
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"... the Democrats’ current Hillary problem: everyone in the party seems to be supporting her, and yet nobody can articulate exactly why."
Morici: Whites Face a Government Working Against Their Interests and Their Children's
So do African Americans
Who Paid for Astrid Silva to Go to College?
Sultan: Amnesty for Unamerica:
According to Obama our immigration system is broken because it doesn’t allow illegal aliens who illegally crossed the border to take American jobs. That’s not a broken system, that’s what the system is supposed to do.
State Senator: This Is St Louis' Race War
She wants to catch up with Detroit?
Let no excuse for looting and rioting go to waste. Social justice requires burning a lady's cake shop.
Memo From Middle America | Obamnesty Not Approved By Congress? No Problem, It’s Been Approved by Mexico And Central America!
White House Quietly Releases Plans For 3,415 Regulations Ahead Of Thanksgiving Holiday
You had better read these, citizens
An economist explains what the heck is happening to the global economy
20 Ways Media Completely Misread Congress’ Weak-Sauce Benghazi Report
Monday, November 24. 2014
 The 12 Wildest Songs to be Played at the Benefit Concert for American Digest's Gerard Vanderleun
Thad McCotter wrote a book
Wild turkeys have made a comeback and are ruffling some suburban feathers
Why Are America’s Poorest Toddlers Being Over-Prescribed ADHD Drugs?
Ivy League students held a mock funeral Friday afternoon mourning oppressed "black and brown bodies."
The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy
The Unilateral Presidency - Obama may be right on the substance of immigration reform, but he's setting a dangerous precedent.
Democrats bet on diversity - Rallying behind the president on immigration, the party hopes to expand Obama’s winning coalition in 2016.
Ed Gillespie: An Obamacare Do-Over
Colleges struggle with protecting students without being accused of victim-blaming
These Gross School Lunch Pictures Are Going Viral With the Hashtag #ThanksMichelleObama
Ivy League students held a mock funeral Friday afternoon mourning oppressed "black and brown bodies."
Ice to close upper Mississippi from November 20, earliest on record
We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans
They are killers
What Big Wind Doesn’t Want You To Know
Shocker: Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work’
Duh.
Economics Profs Claim Ninety Percent Income Tax Rate Would Help the Rich
Penn’s gaydar admissions project goes back years: Gays are ‘blue-chip recruits’
Hillary Clinton Offers Her Own Condescending Hispanic Stereotype
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Drunk Drivers, Your Sex Abusers, Your Drug Traffickers…
White House Points to Decades-old Data on Immigration Benefits - Other studies show immigration reduces wages, employment
Duh.
Cuban migrants head off from Caymans, bound for Honduras
Black Activists Speak Out against Obama Amnesty Agenda
Maine's Anti-Sanctuary Governor Blasts Obama Amnesty, Calls it ‘Very Shameful’
Salaita and The Historiography of Victimhood
Philosophers Behaving Badly: Brooklyn College BDS Edition
The European Parliament Threatens To Break Up Google
Qatar and Terror
Sunday, November 23. 2014
No, that is not a quote from The Onion. Is There Any Hope For Our Civilization?
Saturday, November 22. 2014
Friday, November 21. 2014
President invokes the Sick And Tired clause of the Constitution
ICE readies 2,400 beds for new surge of illegal immigrants through Texas
Obama sets off on scorched-earth rampage
No, Reagan Did Not Offer An Amnesty By Lawless Executive Order
Fukuyama: Immigration Unilateralism - A Bad Call
After Barack I Issues His Amnesty Decree, The Ball Is In The GOP's Court
Hinderaker: On Obama’s Illegal Usurpation, Jeff Sessions Speaks For Us:
President Obama’s executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order to create and implement laws Congress has refused to pass. The President is providing an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs and work permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans during a time of record immigration, low wages, and high joblessness.
This amnesty plan was rejected by the American people’s Congress. By refusing to carry out the laws of the United States in order to make his own, the President is endangering our entire Constitutional order.
Somin: A president does have this authority
McArdle: "As an act of rare semantic derring-do, this was a towering achievement. As a political speech, I don't think it was very effective."
How Obama got here - The president, the Homeland Security secretary and their secret 9-month project to remake American’s broken immigration system.
Newbrough: "Opposing amnesty doesn’t make me heartless, selfish, or cruel, because the U.S. Constitution, our nation’s law, is not mine to give away. It’s not mine, yours, or anyone’s to simply hand over."
Thursday, November 20. 2014
Silly me, thinking that illegal immigration was against the law rather than being rewarded. A few links:
Immigration Lawyer: Obama’s Plan Is ‘Like The Golden Ticket’
Christian Adams: Obama, Our Modern John C. Calhoun
I never learned in school that a president can make his own laws whenever he is frustrated by Congress, but the NYT says it's ok to do that. I can easily imagine what they would say with a Conservative pulling something like that. Anyway, what's the urgency?
Krauthammer: Obama executive action on immigration is 'outside of his power'
Immigration: Obama’s royal scam
Obama Is About to Commit an Act of Constitutional Infamy
And his f- you to the voters
Stories from around the world illustrate how immigration is a very difficult moral issue for liberal democracies today.
The Cubism Show at the Met
I hear from an expert friend that this is the best show the Met has ever put on
Why It's So Hard for Millennials to Find a Place to Live and Work
Colossal Mistake: Trivializing the Past
I disagree with the article. Old Roman constructions are used for modern activities with much success
Polar Bear update
If you go Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving, you should be deported
How the War on Poverty Has Hurt American Marriage Rates
Mel Watt: Fannie and Freddie to Remain Under Federal Control
That's a mistake
This Gruber-gate supercut video is positively enraging
Cato: Grass-Roots Tobacco Bans? Not Quite
Purity politics, Democrat-style
Purity politics, regardless of viewpoint, is not politics
My Company Is Officially Required to Buy a Product That Does Not Exist For Us
NYT (!):As Sharpton Rose, So Did His Unpaid Taxes
StL U Law School Posts #Ferguson Solidarity Page
Sultan's Life Under the Victimocracy
There is no end to the oppression because the Victimocracy has to grow. America is always more bigoted than it was last year because the Victimocrats need more power this year. The more oppressed Americans become, the more they must be denounced for victimizing all the nice people running their lives and robbing them blind.
HERE’S WHY WOMEN IN COMBAT UNITS IS A BAD IDEA
Admiral Greenert Speaks: What Should the U.S. Navy’s New Maritime Strategy Look Like?
Germany Abandons CO2 Targets
Is NATO obsolete?
Egypt takes aim at Hamas' terror tunnels
Murder of 4 Jews praised by Abbas' advisor and Fatah
Being Jewish in Turkey
South Sudan, Samantha Power, and the Failure of Liberal Internationalism
Is Palestine a State That the US Can Recognize?
Wednesday, November 19. 2014
Apparently, it is a protected opinion against religion and thus religious in some sense: Atheists and Secular Humanists are protected by the First Amendment regardless of whether their belief systems are “religions” or not.
It is legally interesting, but in my experience most atheists have faith in some thing or some things as a life foundation, mainly pagan or materialist sorts of things. In the US, most atheists live on a Christian foundation.
Masters of Love - Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity.
The Modern Supermarket Is a Miracle - Finding euphoria in the bread aisle.
Weather Channel Co-Founder Predicting Snowier, Bitterly Colder Winter Ahead
Is New York the New Model for Startup Cities? Its rise has been remarkable. But should aspiring tech hubs really emulate the Big Apple?
Roadblock on Main Street - How federal housing policies run downtowns out of business
Promises Made, Promises Broken 2014: Unfunded Liabilities Hit $4.7 Trillion
Calling on the Brooklyn College Administration - Academic and administrative bias have, in the last few years, spread like a virus throughout the CUNY system. Stop the lies!
‘It’s Time To Push Back Against Feminist Bullies’
Under Obama, U.S. personal freedom ranking slips below France
Canada: How free market ideas went from marginal to mainstream in our neighbor to the north
Too-Big-To-Manage Emerges As New Concern In the Financial Crisis
Why Does Washington Want to Hide Science Data From the Public?
Gruber: Obama personally asked me to help disguise unhelpful Obamacare facts
Why Dems Lack Working Class Appeal: It’s Immigration, Stupid
How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
Matthews: Obama Will Negotiate with Iran, But Not GOP on Immigration
Two U.S. Islamic Groups Called Terrorist by U.A.E.
Roger Simon: Oh, Jerusalem
Israel to ease self-defense gun restrictions after Jerusalem synagogue attack
Hamas, Inc.Gazans suffer, while their leaders continue to pile up the loot
America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder
Conrad Black: How the Mideast Plunged Into the Current Abyss — And the Opportunity Ahead
Tuesday, November 18. 2014
Princeton's Professor Will Happer, video at Powerline's Teach liberals not to hate).
Elite colleges will have a hard time justifying the ways they limit Asian-American acceptances: Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans, ‘similar challenges’ planned
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Stolen from Vanderleun:
Nearly 36 million people are slaves, Qatar in focus: global index
Number of Foreign Students in US Hits Record High
Letter to a Manhattan Resident - A view from that big country outside New York
Once Thought Extinct, North America's Rarest Mammal May Bounce Back
Autopsy: Robin Williams had Lewy body dementia
Article makes no sense to me: The Pipeline From Hell: There’s No Good Reason to Build Keystone XL
Ice Visible on Lake Superior Weeks Ahead of Schedule
What the mainstream media wont tell you about global warming
Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth
Obama: ’Like Your Plan, Keep Your Plan.’ Gruber, 2009: ‘Five Million People Will Lose Their Plan’
Gruber has exposed what liberals really think of the American people.
Sowell:
If the preconceptions of the Left were correct, central planning by educated elites who had vast amounts of statistical data at their fingertips and expertise readily available, and were backed by the power of government, should have been more successful than market economies where millions of individuals pursued their own individual interests willy-nilly.
Monday, November 17. 2014
Toshiba enters high-tech food game with lettuce you don’t have to wash
Five-year-old passes Microsoft exam
Shale Oil: Expensive, Over-Hyped, & Short-Lived?
The Ways Climate Change Is Already Killing Us
Good grief, it's killing me already
Will Republican Know-Nothings Torpedo Climate Progress?
I guess I'm a know-nothing, but I am more Conservative-Libertarian than Republican and I do know a teeny bit about science.
"...the oceans have been rising for around 12,000 years, since the end of the last Ice Age. The rise was rapid during the first few millennia, then tapered off to where it has continued at a modest rate, with the usual fluctuations, for many centuries"
Who are the real know-nothings? Warm is good. Don't these people know that we are still in an Ice Age? It's just a momentary interglacial in a lengthy Ice Age. Ask Maine's Sippican about that.
The government is clueless as to what is nutritious because the science is nowhere near being settled in our lifetime.
Well, We The People know that mashed taters are nutritious. Fat is harmless, but you can live on taters forever.
More than holy, healthy and halal, Big Kosher is big money
New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay a ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share
Black prof.: GOP using Mia Love to advance ‘white interests’
What is a "white interest"? Mashed potatoes?
Douthat: The Great Immigration Betrayal
The Next Border Crisis - Executive amnesty would incentivize the next wave of families
to show up on an unprotected and unprepared southern border.
Via In Oregon Illegal Immigrant Referendum, a Warning for Obama:
“Whenever the public gets that sort of clear-cut, black-and-white issue for tougher controls — even in Oregon, when they’re legalizing dope — they support them,” Krikorian said. “It really highlights how this issue is not a Republican-liberal issue like, say, taxes and abortion, but an up-down issue, elites versus the public.”
Police state? More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations
The lies that are central to Obama’s agenda
Administration Tries to Distance Itself from Gruber’s Comments
Gruber: “Seniors Do A Terrible Job Choosing” Health Plans
Mr. Gruber, we Americans are all too stupid to chose our medical insurance, so do it for us. Please? It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves.
Obama Says Gruber “Never Worked on Our Staff” …But There’s Proof He Met With Gruber in White House
Under the bus with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, et al. It's getting crowded under that bus.
Republicans have made it clear that if Obama goes forward, it would be the equivalent of giving the middle finger to their incoming majority
You betcha
U.S. Navy Deploys Laser Weapon in Persian Gulf
1939 Palestinian Flag. What does it look like? Surprised?
Russian bombers to fly over the Gulf of Mexico. This is what happened last year in Central America.
Sunday, November 16. 2014
The Liberal Arrogance at the Core of Obamacare:
...paternalism is warranted, they argue, because without the government, people would fall prey to big, bad corporate interests and their efforts to relentlessly maximize shareholder value.
Thus, Obamacare is all about the federal government making decisions on behalf of Americans because -- as Gruber and his liberal brethren would argue -- the people are unable or unwilling to make the choices that elites believe advance the social good. That’s why President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress invented the mechanisms in the law that, for example, transfer resources from those who are young and healthy to those who are old and sick.
I don't think that I am unique in preferring big bad business interests to big, bad crony government and political interests. If you don't like a business, you can quit it. Not so easy to quit an armed government.
Being American is not supposed to be being a US subject.
Related: Gruber is an honest Liberal because he admits to grubering. Seems to me that his confessions are just bragging.
A new word: "Grubering." Lying your ass off to make a better world for you pathetic idiots.
Saturday, November 15. 2014
 The kids are going to the NYBG Holiday Train show today. A field trip. 1/4 miles of track. Very cool for any age. Best to get tickets online.
Is It Time to Ditch Your Dining Room?
We only use ours about 20 times per year, but it is quite an attractive space with a nice old fireplace. With good friends, we tend to dine in the kitchen unless it's a special occasion.
Grown-Up Flourless Chocolate Espresso Cake
Killer Shrimp, Flying Fish as Big as Teenagers: Great Lakes States Battle Invasive Species
Only women are supposed to be able to talk about gender issues.
Vodkapundit: Climate Change Made Simple
U.S. and China Are Blowing Smoke on Climate Change
Amazing to me that the NYT won't see through the BS
Surber: The first 2016 Electoral College Map looks bad for Democrats
They will find a way to blow it
Liberal Utopia: Boston Dumps Young Black Males into Special Ed
Senate to take up bill to stop mass NSA snooping
In Scathing Letter to Obama, Former FBI Assistant Director Slams Holder as "Chief Among Antagonists" in Ferguson
"And you think it's possible for the State to navigate between not enough minority members in the district and too many minority members in the district without taking race into account."
Grubered Again! Fifth Video of Liberal Mastermind Surfaces
The good story of the amateur Gruber sleuth: A word with the man who…
Also, Obamacare -- the Truth is Out:
It would seem that for the most part, the mainstream media has no issues with the recently surfaced videotaped comments of Jonathan Gruber. Presumably, the media agree with what he said. Of course, liberals have always been the ends-justify-the-means kind of feelers. In other words, they are people you cannot trust to be honest and straightforward when they have an agenda.
Now that the public is faced with the truth of what their government thinks of them, thanks to Gruber (who was paid approx. $400k for his stellar work), the only explanation the Democrats can offer is either 1) Gruber lied (yes, accuse the liar of lying when the lie is discovered!) or 2) everyone does it.
and
The process of passing Obamacare was ugly, the players corrupt, the deals underhanded and the methods disengenuous, but the end result, to a liberal Democrat, erases all that. Like Gruber, they would ‘rather have this bill than not’. If Democrats have to give up truth, transparency, the rule of law and their very souls to get what they want, so be it.
Yes, that is the game. Used car sales.
Noonan: The Loneliest President Since Nixon - Facing adversity, Obama has no idea how to respond.
Oh yes he does: Obama Taunts Republicans: Immigration Action Is “Going To Happen” In 2014 Whether You Like It Or Not…
Good news from NYT: Rogue executive feeling “liberated” by gigantic midterm landslide
Working for ICE 'is hell right now,' as Obama plans amnesty for illegals
The Next Border Crisis - Column: How Congress can fight Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty
Obama's executive amnesty, gateway to Obamacare for illegal aliens
Sultan's Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit:
92% of black male teens in Chicago don’t have a job. In Detroit, 50% of black men are unemployed. It’s not that there aren’t any jobs, but the entry level jobs have been mostly going to immigrants.
Immigrants, legal or otherwise, are doing the jobs I did as a youth
Elizabeth Warren gets rock-star reception at liberal donors confab
Friday, November 14. 2014
Common Core–The Elites Did It:
The broad view is that the Common Core didn’t grow out of grassroots demand for curricular reform. It isn’t the work of school boards or an initiative put in motion by dissatisfied parents. It didn’t come about because good teachers convened and came up with a proposal to improve K-12 education. It was instead the product of a handful of very-well connected intellectuals who dreamed up their own vision of what American schools should do.
and
One of the local realities is that many parents who are actively involved in their children’s education view the Common Core as state-imposed disaster. They are immune to the Coleman-Gates appeal for uniformity of teaching for the sake of uniformity itself. They are suspicious of an approach to math that vaults over tried-and-true approaches for the sake of the unproven benefits of a new “theory.” They are equally perturbed by an approach that derogates the importance of literature and, when it does introduce literary works, chops them into fragments and short extracts.
Combine arrogance, money, fancy degrees, and a top-down attitude, and this is what you get: a one-size-fits-all central plan designed for the masses by our moral and intellectual superiors whether you want it or not.
Same general philosophy as Obamacare. Or this: Liberal Masterminds Demand National Food Policy. No, that's not from The Onion.
A book (h/t reader) - Dining on the Shore Line Route: New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
South American Catholics Turning Protestant
It's time to abolish the Interstate Highway System
The Rudy Giuliani guide to beating Hillary Clinton
Rush: Amnesty is Irreversible
Geo. Will: Six Things GOP-Led Congress Should Do Right Away
Climate Change’ in the Land of Gruber/Obama
Obamacare's Foundation of Lies - There is only one kind of lie, it's apolitical, and it cripples the best of intentions.
Krauthammer on Obamacare:
On a separate video in a different speech, he explains what Obamacare intended: “If you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits.” The legislative idea was to coerce states into setting up their own exchanges by otherwise denying their citizens subsidies.
This may have been a stupid idea, but it was no slip. And it’s the law, as written, as enacted and as intended. It can be changed by Congress only, not by the executive. Which is precisely what the plaintiffs are saying. Q.E.D.
Krauthammer on Pelosi: “If You’re Going to Lie Make Sure There Isn’t a Video”
Warren to the rescue - Democrats are reeling. So they're calling on their biggest star.
Hamas second-richest terror group in world, Forbes says
Forcing females into combat is real ‘war on women’
Video conference: Experiencing Vietnam
Thursday, November 13. 2014
When apples were for cider
Wal-Mart 'urgent' memo urges improvement at U.S. stores
A Lesbian Theory of the Penis
Why is NYC's nickname "Gotham"?
Disgruntled U. North Carolina Student Upset That University Won’t “Guarantee Academic Success”
African immigrant fact of the day
Feds Spent $10 Million on a Video Game About Escaping a Fat Town
‘Too Stupid’: Second Video Shows Obamacare Architect Insulting Public
Again, In a Third Video, Obamacare Architect Brags About ‘Exploiting’ the American Voter
“It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter,” Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said during a speech at the University of Rhode Island in November 2012.
New York: The Union That Devoured Education Reform - The UFT’s relentless pursuit of its own interests has damaged Gotham schools for decades.
Explaining income inequality by household demographics
42 Percent of New Medicaid Recipients in the Last Two Years Were Immigrants
U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency
Analysts: China Energy Pact Has High Costs With Few Benefits
The rise of Christianity in China
Dem Think Tank Secret Email: ‘All Hands On Deck’ to Sell Iran Deal to Public
African immigrant fact of the day
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