I was listening to Don Wade and Roma this morning and they had Gov. Pat Quinn on their show.  He was trying to tout his reform of the teachers’ pension fund but the conversation quickly turned to the one percent income tax increase (he kept calling it a ‘surcharge’) that would be dedicated specifically for… Continue reading

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is taking on the New Jersey teachers union and is taking the fight to the public.  It looks like the union will no longer be able to hide behind the ‘it’s for the children’ meme since in this case, the money definitely is not.  Per this article: Christie added that… Continue reading

Apparently the New Jersey Teachers Union wants to play for keeps.  Union leadership sent out a prayer calling for Gov Christie’s demise in response to his calls for cuts in education funding.  Hopefully after this, he will start following Rhode Island’s excellent example. Continue reading

An AOL article on how poorly US colleges and universities teach about US history, key texts (Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, etc.), and our institutions (ht Jerome Darnell at American Thinker).  What’s frightening is the ‘before picture’.  According to the article, half of the incoming freshmen (14,000) failed an exam on history/civics (getting half of… Continue reading

Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) in this blogpost has a great turn-of-phrase! One thing we can all agree on about President Obama… He focuses his attention where it is needed least. Americans want jobs – He nationalizes health care. Americans see an emerging threat in nuclear Iran – He signs a nuke agreement with Russia. That’s… Continue reading

I heard about this yesterday and Insty has a bunch of links to posts about it, but good grief…..  Obama throws out the first pitch (like a 5 year old girl) at the Washington Nationals game (after cleverly putting on his White Sox hat) and then  completely proceeds to muff some slow-pitch questions, such as… Continue reading

I saw this blogtitle ” Submission to authoritarianism is freedom!” from Classical Values and immediately flashed to the movie Labyrinth with David Bowie.  Eric has put together a great blogpost that discusses the nature of authoritarianism and the fact that it’s actually the left/liberals who tend to want to pass laws against things they don’t… Continue reading

Listening to the news this morning on my way to work and it was mentioned that Michael Steele, RINO RNC Chairman, is being taken to task for some rather extravagant trips on the RNC dime.  He hasn’t been high on my list, being a RINO and an apologist for Republican views, but then he did… Continue reading

Was watching the morning news and the Today Show came on.  Now I’m not expecting hard-hitting reporting or anything from them, but the lead stories were just dog-and-pony-let’s-distract-the-populace types of prurient and salacious tales.  Plus they are total crap.  The main focus was sex addiction–Tiger Woods, Jesse James, David Duchovny (who started this whole thing). … Continue reading

Bookworm references The Mount Vernon Statement in her post on creating a definition of a conservative racist (see my previous post).  It’s worth posting separately (I’ve cut off the signatures and such so go to the link for a full view): We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding.  Through the Constitution, the… Continue reading