Irish Examiner USA: Americans' Ignorance About Socialism Is Unbelievable
Socialism has never worked but it is easy to sell to those who refuse to study history which is why progressives use academia as their base of operations.
I'm willing to bet that "Animal Farm" and "1984" are no longer recommended reading in today's high schools.
Big Brother is only a TV reality show to many of the young today who regard socialism and big government as a good thing because that's how the mainstream media presents it.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans - US News and World Report
The average Canadian household is worth about $40,000 more than their American counterparts
The average Canadian household is worth about $40,000 more than their American counterparts
The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
PJ Media » The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Soon, society divided into two parts:
1) The problem solvers and innovators.
2) The whiners, who would keep saying the first group’s output wasn’t good enough.
Soon, society divided into two parts:
1) The problem solvers and innovators.
2) The whiners, who would keep saying the first group’s output wasn’t good enough.
California Pension Takes Nosedive
California Pension Takes Nosedive | Via Meadia
Worse, the fund’s actuary recommended a lower target, but the fund rejected it — not because the current number is accurate, but because using a more accurate rate of return would place too great a burden on struggling governments!
Instead, they will close their eyes, clap their hands, and wait for Tinkerbelle to balance the books.
Worse, the fund’s actuary recommended a lower target, but the fund rejected it — not because the current number is accurate, but because using a more accurate rate of return would place too great a burden on struggling governments!
Instead, they will close their eyes, clap their hands, and wait for Tinkerbelle to balance the books.
Dismantling of a culture
Dismantling of a Culture - Interview - National Review Online
GELERNTER: American culture had its throat slit and bled to death at our feet.
Isn’t that revolutionary enough?
The blood is only metaphorical, but to the 40 percent of [all] infants [who are] born to single mothers this year, the consequences will be real.
In a piddling few decades, the world’s most powerful, influential cultural establishment happened to get demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
What had been basically a Christian, patriotic, family-loving, politically moderate part of society became contemptuous of biblical religion, of patriotism, of the family, of American greatness.
The American cultural elite used to resemble (more or less) the rest of America.
Today it disdains the rest of America.
That’s a revolution.
GELERNTER: American culture had its throat slit and bled to death at our feet.
Isn’t that revolutionary enough?
The blood is only metaphorical, but to the 40 percent of [all] infants [who are] born to single mothers this year, the consequences will be real.
In a piddling few decades, the world’s most powerful, influential cultural establishment happened to get demolished and rebuilt from the ground up.
What had been basically a Christian, patriotic, family-loving, politically moderate part of society became contemptuous of biblical religion, of patriotism, of the family, of American greatness.
The American cultural elite used to resemble (more or less) the rest of America.
Today it disdains the rest of America.
That’s a revolution.
City of Compton may declare bankruptcy by September: officials
City of Compton may declare bankruptcy by September: officials - Yahoo! News
The City of Compton, a city of 93,000 people located on the outskirts of Los Angeles, must decide by September 1 whether to seek bankruptcy, according to its two most senior financial officials.
The City of Compton, a city of 93,000 people located on the outskirts of Los Angeles, must decide by September 1 whether to seek bankruptcy, according to its two most senior financial officials.
Americans Joining Disability Now Outpacing Americans Finding Jobs
Americans Joining Disability Now Outpacing Americans Finding Jobs | The Weekly Standard
As the chart shows, between April-June 2012, an estimated 246,000 Americans were added to Social Security's disability insurance program. In that same time period, only 225,000 American jobs were created.
As the chart shows, between April-June 2012, an estimated 246,000 Americans were added to Social Security's disability insurance program. In that same time period, only 225,000 American jobs were created.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
How the Democratic Media Spin the News
How the Democratic Media Spin the News | Power Line
He said that Obama’s comments show three related things:
1) The President doesn’t understand how America and business work. No wonder his administration has failed to create jobs.
2) Obama’s crony capitalism: he thinks the way to create jobs is for the government to pick winners and losers, and slide money to Obama’s bundlers and allies.
3) Obama’s attitude toward small business also reflects where he comes from, the “murky political world” of Chicago where politicians and felons are interchangeable.
He said that Obama’s comments show three related things:
1) The President doesn’t understand how America and business work. No wonder his administration has failed to create jobs.
2) Obama’s crony capitalism: he thinks the way to create jobs is for the government to pick winners and losers, and slide money to Obama’s bundlers and allies.
3) Obama’s attitude toward small business also reflects where he comes from, the “murky political world” of Chicago where politicians and felons are interchangeable.
Democrats say they're worried Gov. Snyder's school funding ideas sound too much like vouchers
Democrats say they're worried Gov. Snyder's school funding ideas sound too much like vouchers | MLive.com
Democrats say they’re concerned that the team starting discussions on overhauling school funding is looking at ways to bring a voucher-like system to the state, but they’re open to seeing what the panel comes up with – and who is asked to assist.
Leaders of a Lansing foundation overseeing the plan say they’re looking to write a bill that would allow money to more closely follow children and offer families more educational choices.
Democrats say they’re concerned that the team starting discussions on overhauling school funding is looking at ways to bring a voucher-like system to the state, but they’re open to seeing what the panel comes up with – and who is asked to assist.
Leaders of a Lansing foundation overseeing the plan say they’re looking to write a bill that would allow money to more closely follow children and offer families more educational choices.
Smart meters: State mulls health, privacy risks of new electricity meters being installed at Michigan homes
Smart meters: State mulls health, privacy risks of new electricity meters being installed at Michigan homes | MLive.com
The Michigan Public Service Commission recently released a staff report that generally supported smart meter deployment but recommended utilities allow customers to opt out of using the new technology.
The Michigan Public Service Commission recently released a staff report that generally supported smart meter deployment but recommended utilities allow customers to opt out of using the new technology.
Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car
Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car | NewsBusters.org
And with GM’s new 60-day return policy, it looks like you can buy a Volt and cash the $7,500 bribe check.
Then return the Volt - and keep the $7,500 bribe cash.
How’s that for Taxpayer coin stewardship?
And with GM’s new 60-day return policy, it looks like you can buy a Volt and cash the $7,500 bribe check.
Then return the Volt - and keep the $7,500 bribe cash.
How’s that for Taxpayer coin stewardship?
How Close Are We to New Great Depression?
How Close Are We to New Great Depression? - Business News - CNBC
“If this credit bubble pops, the depression could be so severe that I don’t think our civilization could survive it.”
“If this credit bubble pops, the depression could be so severe that I don’t think our civilization could survive it.”
OMB's Stockman: "We're At The Fiscal Endgame"
OMB's Stockman: "We're At The Fiscal Endgame" | ZeroHedge
His warning is that unlike in past periods, today "we are completely paralyzed, there is an ideological divide on taxes and entitlement like we've never had before" and while he realizes that "the debt problem doesn't become a debt problem until the market suddenly have a wake up call and realize that if the Fed doesn't keep printing, it's game over."
His warning is that unlike in past periods, today "we are completely paralyzed, there is an ideological divide on taxes and entitlement like we've never had before" and while he realizes that "the debt problem doesn't become a debt problem until the market suddenly have a wake up call and realize that if the Fed doesn't keep printing, it's game over."
Monday, July 16, 2012
Muskegon area radio stations partnering up with Local Sports Journal to bolster coverage of area sports
Muskegon area radio stations partnering up with Local Sports Journal to bolster coverage of area sports | Local Sports Journal
Radio stations WLCS- FM 98.3 and WVIB-FM 100.1 along with Local Sports Journal have announced a partnership that will benefit Muskegon area sports fans starting with the fast-approaching high school football season.
Jon Russell, operations manager and high school play-by-play at WLCS-FM along with Jason Goorman and Ron Rop, co-publishers of Local Sports Journal, announced the partnership today.
Radio stations WLCS- FM 98.3 and WVIB-FM 100.1 along with Local Sports Journal have announced a partnership that will benefit Muskegon area sports fans starting with the fast-approaching high school football season.
Jon Russell, operations manager and high school play-by-play at WLCS-FM along with Jason Goorman and Ron Rop, co-publishers of Local Sports Journal, announced the partnership today.
The Vélodrome d’hiver Round-up: July 16 and 17, 1942
The Vélodrome d’hiver Round-up: July 16 and 17, 1942 - Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
The real history for the book "Sarah's Key".
The real history for the book "Sarah's Key".
Conquest’s Laws
Conquest’s Laws
By John Derbyshire
Several readers have asked me for Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of politics.
As best I can remember, they are:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will
sooner or later become left-wing.
3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by
assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty
International as examples.
Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucarcy
sometimes actually IS controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies–e.g.
the postwar British secret service.
By John Derbyshire
Several readers have asked me for Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of politics.
As best I can remember, they are:
1. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
2. Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will
sooner or later become left-wing.
3. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by
assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
Of the Second Law, Conquest gave the Church of England and Amnesty
International as examples.
Of the Third, he noted that a bureaucarcy
sometimes actually IS controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies–e.g.
the postwar British secret service.
TODAY’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Choices Matter In Avoiding Poverty.
Instapundit » Blog Archive »
TODAY’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Choices Matter In Avoiding Poverty.
UPDATE: Reader Bill Reece writes:
I had a law professor who taught the traditional business related law classes at my law school who followed the Chicago School’s “Law and Economics” Theory of Law.
I will never forget my first week of Contracts Law in my first year in law school.
I came to this class as a poor kid whose family had basically lost its dreams of a working-middle class lifestyle when my Dad’s job at US Steel disappeared along with thousands of others in 1981, six years earlier.
I came from a pretty liberal background, and knew next to nothing about economics and business.
I had managed to get to law school by earning a scholarship based on my undergraduate work while facing these tough economic times.
This professor said something that was shocking to me, and at first upsetting.
He actually would go on to use the expression often in the classes I took from him (4 over three years of school).
“There is a cost to being poor.”
At first it seemed glib and uncaring, but as I sat through his classes and as I talked to him outside of the classroom, I realized it was said more with pity and regret than anything else.
And from my family’s experience, I recognized pretty quickly and far better than any child of the upper or upper-middle class, that he was all too correct.
The consequences of bad life decisions, made many times over, cost people heavily.
Dependence, like addiction, begins with choice.
We don’t want to admit this uncomfortable fact, but in the beginning there are conscious choices that leave people in the thralls of dependence, poverty, addiction, depression, and many other dead-ends in life.
And the lesson this professor offered to me was that we make these outcomes more likely by excusing the choices that lead to them rather than confronting them.
I can also pinpoint that week as the moment that I began to stop being a liberal and eventually became a libertarian
TODAY’S SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Choices Matter In Avoiding Poverty.
UPDATE: Reader Bill Reece writes:
I had a law professor who taught the traditional business related law classes at my law school who followed the Chicago School’s “Law and Economics” Theory of Law.
I will never forget my first week of Contracts Law in my first year in law school.
I came to this class as a poor kid whose family had basically lost its dreams of a working-middle class lifestyle when my Dad’s job at US Steel disappeared along with thousands of others in 1981, six years earlier.
I came from a pretty liberal background, and knew next to nothing about economics and business.
I had managed to get to law school by earning a scholarship based on my undergraduate work while facing these tough economic times.
This professor said something that was shocking to me, and at first upsetting.
He actually would go on to use the expression often in the classes I took from him (4 over three years of school).
“There is a cost to being poor.”
At first it seemed glib and uncaring, but as I sat through his classes and as I talked to him outside of the classroom, I realized it was said more with pity and regret than anything else.
And from my family’s experience, I recognized pretty quickly and far better than any child of the upper or upper-middle class, that he was all too correct.
The consequences of bad life decisions, made many times over, cost people heavily.
Dependence, like addiction, begins with choice.
We don’t want to admit this uncomfortable fact, but in the beginning there are conscious choices that leave people in the thralls of dependence, poverty, addiction, depression, and many other dead-ends in life.
And the lesson this professor offered to me was that we make these outcomes more likely by excusing the choices that lead to them rather than confronting them.
I can also pinpoint that week as the moment that I began to stop being a liberal and eventually became a libertarian
Sunday, July 15, 2012
From Seat to Shining Seat
From Seat to Shining Seat - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online
By Mark Steyn
"I hope you’re sitting down for this one…
Navy’s New Gender-Neutral Carriers Won’t Have Urinals"
By Mark Steyn
"I hope you’re sitting down for this one…
Navy’s New Gender-Neutral Carriers Won’t Have Urinals"
Penn State: Here are 10 steps to recovery
Penn State: Here are 10 steps to recovery
As shocking as Louis Freeh’s report is — and it is about as horrific an indictment of institutional corruption as college football has ever seen — there is an opportunity for the good people at Penn State (of which there are plenty) to recover.
As shocking as Louis Freeh’s report is — and it is about as horrific an indictment of institutional corruption as college football has ever seen — there is an opportunity for the good people at Penn State (of which there are plenty) to recover.
Football and Hockey - By Mark Steyn
Football and Hockey - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online
In the wake of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s complicity in serial rape, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley’s other scandal:
I’m referring to another cover up and whitewash that occurred there two years ago, before we learned how rotten and corrupt the culture at the university was. But now that we know how bad it was, perhaps it’s time that we revisit the Michael Mann affair, particularly given how much we’ve also learned about his and others’ hockey-stick deceptions since. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.
Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point.
Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change “hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus.
And, when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to “investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann. And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.
If an institution is prepared to cover up systemic statutory rape of minors, what won’t it cover up? Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”, he remains the Michael Mann of climate change, in part because his “investigation” by a deeply corrupt administration was a joke.
In the wake of Louis Freeh’s report on Penn State’s complicity in serial rape, Rand Simberg writes of Unhappy Valley’s other scandal:
I’m referring to another cover up and whitewash that occurred there two years ago, before we learned how rotten and corrupt the culture at the university was. But now that we know how bad it was, perhaps it’s time that we revisit the Michael Mann affair, particularly given how much we’ve also learned about his and others’ hockey-stick deceptions since. Mann could be said to be the Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and planet.
Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point.
Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change “hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus.
And, when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to “investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann. And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.
If an institution is prepared to cover up systemic statutory rape of minors, what won’t it cover up? Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”, he remains the Michael Mann of climate change, in part because his “investigation” by a deeply corrupt administration was a joke.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Micro-apartments next for S.F.?
Micro-apartments next for S.F.? - SFGate
The new minimum would be 150 square feet plus kitchen, bathroom and closet - 220 square feet in total, about the size of a one-car garage.
The current minimum with all rooms included is 290 square feet.
The new minimum would be 150 square feet plus kitchen, bathroom and closet - 220 square feet in total, about the size of a one-car garage.
The current minimum with all rooms included is 290 square feet.
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