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FAILING SCHOOLS ARE A SIGN OF FAILING NATIONAL CHARACTER |
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Written by Ralph Peters
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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 |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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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 |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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 |
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Written by Frank Gaffney
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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 |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 11 November 2011 |
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HALF-FULL REPORT 11/04/11 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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? |
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Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
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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 |
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Written by Skye
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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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 |
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Written by Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 03 November 2011 |
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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 |
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Written by Richard Rahn
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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 |
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Written by Dr. Joel Wade
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Friday, 04 November 2011 |
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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% |
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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 04 November 2011 |
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