The first step in understanding the public education mess is to realize that IT’S NOT ABOUT MONEY. Teachers — despite the widespread myth — are overpaid and underworked. Innumerable studies show that parochial schools produce better test scores with half or sometimes even as little as a third of public-school budgets. California, to pick a [...]
The Importance of Being Karl
April 5, 2010 By 1 Comment
The first half of Rove’s memoir is something you’ve never seen before.
Oliver Stone and the Left Cannot See a Cup Half Full
March 11, 2010 By 22 Comments
One simple error in perspective has been the cause of incalculable human suffering from the beginning of time.
Evan Bayh’s Exit and the Failure of Liberal Governance – WSJ.com
February 17, 2010 By 3 Comments
The political retirement of Evan Bayh, at age 54, is being portrayed by various sages as a result of too much partisanship, or the Senate's dysfunction, or even the systemic breakdown of American governance. Most of this is rationalization. The real story, of which Mr. Bayh's frustration is merely the latest sign, is the failure [...]
The Homegrown-Terrorist Threat – Commentary
February 11, 2010 By 3 Comments
If 2001 was the year when international terrorism hit American soil, then 2009 was the year when Americans became the targets of domestic terrorism. In November, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, born in Virginia to Palestinian Muslim parents, killed 13 and wounded 30 in his one-man attack on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas. [...]
A New Era of Responsibility?
February 9, 2010 By 12 Comments
President’s proposed 2011 budget is a fiscal sham.
An Ex-Islamist Needs U.S. Support – WSJ.com
February 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Hanevy Ould Dahah, who is now being held in Mauritania’s Dar Naim prison, is an unlikely dissident. Half-Arab and half-African, he was marked as a child to become a cleric, memorizing the Quran by age nine and studying at ultra-conservative academies. Some of his former classmates now lead Mauritania’s Salafist movement; Hanevy might have been [...]
The Grasping Hand
January 28, 2010 By 14 Comments
The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens.
Media Matters laughs off White House ‘Mao’ ornaments as harmless ‘pop culture’ (you rubes!)
December 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When Media Matters warned readers on Christmas Eve that “posting will be light for the next week and a half,” who knew they meant both quality and quantity.
Apparently at a loss for something important to write about — and we all know what a slow news week it’s been — today Media Matters’ Eric “the [...]
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Everyone Goes For Broke in Iran
December 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The regime, its thugs, the protesters…
Half of Qom turned out for Montazeri’s funeral/enormous rally. The mullahs cut the services short and goons attacked Moussavi’s motorcade. This is huge.
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