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FAILING SCHOOLS ARE A SIGN OF FAILING NATIONAL CHARACTER Print E-mail
Written by Ralph Peters   
Friday, 11 November 2011

During a workout last weekend, I watched and listened as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan bemoaned our "crumbling schools." Sorry, but it's not our schools that are crumbling, Mr. Secretary: It's our values. 

But we can't even discuss the problem honestly and have to trim the conversation to keep it within politically correct patterns. Well, when yet another survey trumpets that the U.S. has fallen to sixth place in teaching math or science, or that we're fifteenth in education overall, my reaction is "Okay, break those scores out by specific school locations." 

Generally, our suburban and many small-town schools still deliver competitive (if less than optimal) educations. Our statistics skew sharply downward because of the appalling conditions in the inner-city and barrio holding pens and teacher's-union bunkers we pretend are real schools.

The left, for political advantage, has written off poor blacks and browns educationally-confining them in schools that are now about the unionized teachers, not the students.  And let's be honest: Conservatives have made no serious attempts to reform those schools, either.
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HOW THE LEFT LICENSES BAD BEHAVIOR Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Joel Wade   
Friday, 11 November 2011

Buying "green" products may or may not help the environment, but it makes people feel good and morally better about themselves - which can lead them to behave badly.

When our kids see a Prius or other hybrid car, they jokingly call them "smugmobiles," because their primary effect on the environment is to supply the owners with an internal environment of moral superiority over owners of other, "non-green," vehicles.

Such smugness easily leads to what researchers call the "licensing" or "halo" effect: the tendency for a person to take what they deem to be good behavior as a license to then engage in bad, dangerous, or ludicrously hypocritical behavior.

This applies to the left across the board, from Barack Hussein Obama to the OWS protestors to Warmists and their "Green" movement.  Let's see how.
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THE US-INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY JOBS AND GROWTH Print E-mail
Written by Richard Rahn   
Friday, 11 November 2011

How much pressure would it take before you would sell out your intellectual integrity? Those who are given responsibilities for developing and promoting sound public policy are subject to never-ending pressure by those in the political class to serve them rather than the public.

An extraordinarily well researched and provocative paper has just been released, tracing how the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a major international organization, descended from promoting trade- and job-creation policies among the nations of the world to one that is supporting job-destroying tax cartels for the benefit of the high-tax countries.

What we are seeing is the growth of international, non-elected bureaucracies that hack away at our liberties and economic freedoms, destroying jobs and opportunity, all in the name of redistributionist and "tax-fairness" schemes.

But international organizations aren't the only ones that are destroying jobs and economic opportunity in the name of tax fairness. The U.S. Treasury and Internal Revenue Service are considering regulations that could cost Americans millions of jobs.
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WARMIST FRAUDSTERS LOSE AGAIN Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Thursday, 10 November 2011

"For the clueless and cynical diehards who deny global warming, it's getting awfully cold out there," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote Oct. 24.

It is indeed.  Here in Pennsylvania we had last month the earliest snowfall anyone can remember.  This winter will be cold and stormy, the Farmers Almanac predicts.

But that's not what Mr. Robinson meant.  "Despite denials for political agendas, global warming at the hands of man is beyond doubt after a former skeptic's study," said the subhed over his column in the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Mr. Robinson was referring to the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, which examined temperature measurements from 1800 to 2010 from 39,000 ground stations around the world.  It's instructing to see how a warmist fraudster distorts it.
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CAIN, CLINTON, AND THE MEDIA Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Friday, 11 November 2011

Herman Cain's nightmare began a week ago Monday (10/31) when the webzine Politico reported two women had accused him of sexual misconduct when he was president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

The story was thin.  James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal summarized it this way: "Anonymous sources told Politico that unnamed women alleged that Cain said unspecified things."

It triggered a media feeding frenzy anyway.  ABC, NBC and CBS reported on the Cain "scandal" 84 times in the first week.

This contrasts with 0 as in zero, the number of times in 2008 ABC, NBC and CBS mentioned allegations of sexual misconduct by former Sen. John Edwards, who ran for president that year.

And it contrasts with exactly 4, the number of stories the broadcast networks ran in the week after Juanita Broaddrick said she'd been raped by President Bill Clinton.
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NO MORE ON-THE-JOB NATIONAL SECURITY TRAINING FOR A PRESIDENT Print E-mail
Written by Frank Gaffney   
Tuesday, 08 November 2011

Until recently, most politicians, pundits and others among the "smart people" insisted that Election 2012 was all about jobs, jobs, jobs. The more broad-minded contended that the related issues of the lousy economy and the imperatives of deficit reduction also might feature. But that was all that mattered, especially in the presidential contest.

Then, GOP candidate Herman Cain, a successful businessman who has risen in the polls in no small measure on the strength of his claim to have actually created jobs, gave an interview in which he seemed unaware that Communist China has the bomb.

Without skipping a beat, the intelligentsia denounced him as unfit to serve on the grounds that a man who was not proficient in national security and foreign policy matters could never become president. The jobs-jobs-jobs leitmotif gave way, at least for a time, to a new theme: The White House is no place for on-the-job-training about the nation's defense.

How quickly they forget. What Barack Hussein Obama knew about U.S. security policy before he became president amounted to little more than the anti-colonialist sentiments of his father and the virulently anti-American agitation of Palestine Liberation Organization flak Rashid Khalidi, terrorist William Ayers, revolutionary Saul Alinsky and radical pastor Jeremiah Wright.
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THE MEDIAS GUIDE TO PROTESTORS Print E-mail
Written by To The Point News   
Friday, 11 November 2011

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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/04/11 Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Friday, 04 November 2011

The big "news" this week are the charges of sexual misconduct against Herman Cain. As of midday Thursday, ABC, NBC and CBS had referred to them in 50 news broadcasts. This was rather more than the number of broadcasts in which ABC, NBC and CBS reported on the sexual misconduct of former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, when he was running for president, which was zero.

A House panel voted Thursday to subpoena internal White House documents on Solyndra. The AP reported Wednesday that just days before the firm collapsed, the administration contemplated bailing Solyndra out. And just a few months before the company filed for bankruptcy, Solyndra's top executives awarded themselves big bonuses. The executives were all big contributors to Democrats.

MF Global filed for bankruptcy Monday. Showing the same financial acumen he did as governor of New Jersey, Democrat Jon Corzine bet $6 billion on bonds issued by the PIIGs in Europe, on the assumption the EU would bail out the bondholders at the rate of 100 cents on the dollar. Oops.

Some $700 million of investors' money is missing. The SEC, CFTC and the FBI are investigating. Mr. Corzine has hired a criminal attorney. The odds he will be Barack Hussein Obama's next Treasury secretary have dropped a bit.

The very left wing Nation magazine recently provided a sympathetic portrait of an OWS protester who took out $35,000 in student loans to get a masters degree in puppetry - and now wonders why he can't get a job.

Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich are going to do something wonderful tomorrow nite.
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ARE WE HAVING FUN NOW? Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler   
Wednesday, 02 November 2011

"The sun does not rise in the east.  That cannot happen.  We can't allow it.  If the sun were to rise in the east - just for the sake of argument for it is impossible - then Greece will default, the euro will collapse, the European Union will disintegrate, and all of civilization will face a doom worse than the catastrophe of Global Warming, which by the way, is real."

Don't you find this awesome denial of reality by all the leaders of Europe absolutely hilarious?  Yet this only scratches the surface of mirth regarding what is happening in our world now.  Speaking of our world, I'm writing this 35,000 feet above it, flying to Africa on a wing and a prayer.  The wing is an Airbus 380-300's, the prayer is that I'll have an internet connection in Bangui in the Central African Republic once I get there so I can post this on TTP.

Where I am and where I'm headed is perhaps an apt metaphor.  I'm over the Sahara now, with its sandy uninhabited wastes reminding me of Zero's desertification of America's economy and culture.  I'm going into the unknown, the deepest jungle abyss of the Dark Continent, similar to the chaotic unknown future facing America.

Yet this non-stop Air France flight from Paris is packed, full of folks with no sense of foreboding whatever.  Nor should we, facing the future we are bound for.  It's about time we began looking forward to it.
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THE THIEF OF TIME Print E-mail
Written by Skye   
Monday, 31 October 2011

Our economy can not recover so long as the Fed is holding interest rates below their market price because this is causing the continuing misallocation of trillions of dollars of capital to lower value uses.

Most politicians, including Herman Cain,  think that interest rate manipulation by the Fed is merely a lever, a throttle for controlling the speed of the economy.  Keynesian economics says that the government can speed up the economy by lowering interest rates. 

Oh?  After correcting for inflation, we have had 3 years of below zero interest rates (for those with the right political connections), yet the economy is worsening, not accelerating.

Why is this?  It is because interest rates are the price of time, not a throttle lever.
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LETTING THE PHONE RING WHEN THEIR COUNTRY CALLED Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Tuesday, 01 November 2011

If you look at President Barack Hussein Obama's job approval numbers and the "right track/wrong track" numbers, it's hard to see how he can win.

But if you look at the GOP candidates running against him, it's hard to see how Mr. Obama can lose.

The Seven Dwarves break down like this: There is former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney; five vying to be "Not Romney;" and Rep. Ron Paul, who inhabits a universe all his own.

(There are eight candidates, if you count former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.  I don't, since he seems to be running in the wrong party.)

The irony is we must choose from this mediocre (at best) field at a time when the Republican bench is filled with intelligent, articulate, principled conservatives who've displayed courage and initiative in office.  But none of them got off the bench and answered the call.
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TIME TO END THE FRAUD OF “HIGHER” EDUCATION Print E-mail
Written by Jack Kelly   
Thursday, 03 November 2011

The biggest consumer ripoff in America today -- and the next economic bubble to burst -- is higher education.

Tuition and fees at colleges and universities rose 439 percent between 1982 and 2007.  Median family income rose just 147 percent during that period.

Median household income has fallen 6.7 percent since June, 2009. The cost of attending the average public university rose 5.4 percent this year. Student loan debt recently passed $1 trillion.  It’s now more than credit card debt.  The average graduate of a four year college owes $27,000.

College students don’t get much for their money. Nearly half learn next to nothing in their first two years; a third learn almost nothing in four, according to a report authored principally by Prof. Richard Arum of New York University.

“Students who say that college has not prepared them for the real world are largely right,” said Ann Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.  “The fundamental problem here is not debt, but a broken educational system that no longer insists on excellence.”

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THE WISDOM OF WILLIAM NISKANSEN Print E-mail
Written by Richard Rahn   
Thursday, 03 November 2011

If only we had followed his recommendations, the United States and the rest of the world would not be in the present mess. On Oct. 26, the world lost one of its wisest, most competent and principled economists, William Niskanen.

Bill did his undergraduate work at Harvard and earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Milton Friedman. He then taught at a couple of leading universities, was a high-level official at the Office of Management and Budget and the Defense Department, served as chief economist of the Ford Motor Co., was a member and, ultimately, head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and finally, served for more than two decades as the chairman of the Cato Institute.

For four decades, Bill Niskanen worked for a tax-and-spending-limitation amendment to the Constitution. In January 1995, in only 125 words, he presented his proposed constitutional amendment to the House Budget Committee, "consistent with the crisp and majestic language of most of the Constitution."

Here is his amendment. After reading it, ask yourself how much better off the nation would be today if the body politic had passed what he proposed:
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FOLLOWING THE GOLDEN RULE IS NOT SIMPLE BUT WORTH IT Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Joel Wade   
Friday, 04 November 2011

Why are relationships so difficult? After all, we love people, we like people, we need people… we are people. Why is it that there is so much trouble between people?

I suppose one way to approach this question is to look at what your expectations are.

As Stephen Pinker so beautifully shows in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, there was no time in mankind’s history when human beings have been less violent toward one another than right now.

Okay, so we’re generally not going around killing one another. But why is there so much conflict, divorce, animosity, and outright anger or even hatred of people we know?

Because we are, every one of us, more complex, unique, bizarre, and difficult than we let ourselves believe.

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I AM NOT THE 99% Print E-mail
Written by To The Point News   
Friday, 04 November 2011

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