Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Even an old Democrat pro like Leon Panetta is getting discouraged with the current Occupant: Then, to Obama. "This president -- he's extremely bright, he's extremely able, he's somebody who I think certainly understands the issues, asks the right questions and I think has the right instincts about what needs to be done for the …
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An interesting strategy: Many House Republicans, including some key leaders, have decided they can live with a government shutdown but not with the threat of default. In the hours ahead, look for the GOP to seek a deal with President Obama and Democrats on at least a short-term increase in the debt limit, while standing …
Our public education system is at it again: It started as a simple look at bullying. University of Texas at Arlington criminologist Seokjin Jeong analyzed data collected from 7,000 students from all 50 states. He thought the results would be predictable and would show that anti-bullying programs curb bullying. Instead — he found the opposite. …
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For stuff like this: Instead of facing an exorbitant premium increase once their combined earnings hits $62,041 if they were to stay married, each cohabiting adult can earn up to $45,960 before Obamacare’s “tax credit”-free premiums kick in. Their annual after-tax savings at age 60 if they shack up and keep their individual earnings between …
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I never thought I'd live long enough to see this, in Salon no less: The last president who had a plan for protecting American workers from the vicissitudes of the global economy was Richard Nixon, who was in office when foreign steel and foreign cars began seriously competing with domestic products. The most farsighted politician …
Continue reading "Praising Richard Nixon, a Act of Liberal Desperation"
Last week, we saw our Congress (the opposite of progress) in recess, getting an earful of anti-war sentiment from their constituents. (And not just from "blue" districts and states either). Our President, meanwhile, shot some rounds of golf and didn't make much more headway with the G20 than those in Congress did with their constituents. …
Continue reading "Message to my Liberal Friends: You Can't Pick and Choose Your Wars"
Back in 1976, when Bob Dole was running for Vice President, during his debate with Walter Mondale he made the following statement: I figured it up the other day: If we added up the killed and wounded in Democrat wars in this century, it would be about 1.6 million Americans — enough to fill the city …
Failure to do so resulted in this: Jay McDowell, an economics teacher, bought one of those shirts and wore it in class that day. McDowell then showed his students a video about a gay teenager who committed suicide, and devoted the rest of the class period to discussion. Daniel entered McDowell’s classroom for the sixth …
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It's the goal of @pbenedictii, the new Headmaster of my old Episcopal prep school, St. Andrew's in Boca Raton: Q. What would you say is your priority? A. We have to prepare our students to be global citizens and will change the curriculum to understand that citizenship. Meanwhile across town we have the blog of …
Ramesh Ponnuru attempts to sort things out about the potential field of viable Republicans for the 2016 Presidential race. But, as was the case at the start of the 2012 handicapping, the most important criterion is left out: is the person an Ivy Leaguer? Let me remind my readers that we have not elected a …
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