Greg Foster over at Pajamas Media writes about how Obama has caused waves by siding with the Rhode Island school district that fired, well, everyone.  He says that it’s because the teachers unions are losing their power and Obama wants to be on the side of the ‘social justice’  folks taking down the unions because… Continue reading

Heard on the news this morning:  Illinois is going to start implementing a ban on perchloroethylene, which is used for dry cleaning.  Per the Epoch Times, before this happens, there’s going to be a tax on dry-cleaners that will go into a ‘Drycleaner Environmental Trust Fund.  The article states: The funds will be used to… Continue reading

As Munchkin Wrangler says, the worst wedding vows EVER!  As I posted in his comments, I knew what it was right away.  Check your nerd-knowledge over there. Continue reading

This commercial and its sequels completely crack me up, partially because it’s on the edge of surreal.  YMMV.  It probably helps that I really do like the smell of Old Spice (and English Leather).  As a full disclaimer, I’ve not been paid or gotten anything from Old Spice–I just like the commercial. Continue reading

I heard about this on NPR the other afternoon, but hadn’t had time to blog about it.  Governors and state commissioners of education along with a passel of academics (God help us) have come together behind closed doors to create these ‘standards’.  It’s another sideways way for the federal government to obtain control over the… Continue reading

Via Bookworm Room:  Pelosi is not sure she’s got the votes she needs to circumvent the will of the American people so it’s possible they are going to try another tact–just leave the House out of the equation on the monster health care bill since some of them are actually showing some backbone (or want… Continue reading

Mr. B. over at Middle of the Right sent me this link that he got via Insty.  It’s an article from Inside Higher Ed (which I do try to read every couple of days) about how the Federal Department of Education sent out a ‘guidebook’ to accreditors that looks like it went above and beyond… Continue reading

Via Bookworm Room, Mark Krikorian over at The Corner has an answer to the race question on the Census form instead of lying or skipping the question altogether: Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — “Some other race” — and writing in “American.” It’s a truthful answer but at the… Continue reading

In this Telegraph (UK) article, there are a couple of interesting tidbits regarding the budding war between the Evangelicals and the Voodoo practitioners in Haiti.  The first tidbit is that despite the writer trying to make the Voodoo folks look looney by describing the happenings of one of their rituals, the Voodoo folks make the… Continue reading

I happened to catch part of the news last night and saw the video of Obama congratulating the Iraqi people on their courage to vote, despite the threats of being blown up (kind of like voting with the SEIU or Black Panthers standing there, but with high explosives) and basically trying to take the credit… Continue reading