What to do after a long day of moving arrangements and packing?
NRB’s managing editor, David Swindle, described what’s been on his reading agenda the past few weeks:
While flying out to Los Angeles last week to find our apartment I finished Howard Bloom’s first book, The Lucifer Principle. (I’d previously raved about Bloom’s newest book The [...]
NewsReal Blog Book Club: David Swindle’s Distractions From Moving
NPR praises former Rep. for “voting her conscience” instead of representing her district
(Robert Siegel, liberal host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” behind the mics with NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.)
We need to come up with a new name for our left-wing members in the U.S. House of Representatives, for they’re clearly not Representatives of their constituents, accept by accident of a shared liberal agenda.
“Representatives” in the [...]
The New Left and the New Right
David Brooks has a provocative column today likening today’s Tea Party movement to the New Left that emerged in the 60s counterculture. Brooks is right about some of the outward similarities: the populist rhetoric; the grassroots activism; the disdain for political elites; and, ultimately, the somewhat diffuse policy agenda defined more by what it stands [...]
Save a School–Fire a Teacher? Part 2
If you missed part one, you can catch up here.
When Central Falls, a “persistently low performing” High School in Rhode Island fired 74 teachers along with other union members, the teachers’ union called the action:
“Immoral, illegal, unjust, irresponsible disgraceful, and disrespectful.”
No, what is immoral, illegal, unjust, irresponsible and disgraceful is to promote a radical agenda [...]
























