i put this in the standard, and some have already been calling 911. It is analysis, not advocacy . . . . If, as most pundits now believe, Mitt Romney has the inside track for the Republican nomination, he is the first GOP candidate in more than a generation not to be syntactically challenged. Just . . . . Continue Reading »
The high-tech parents from Silicon Valley are now sending their kids to a school that sells itself as computer-free. Why? Such technology is a distraction, turning attention away from reading, writing, numbers, talking, and thinking. The buzz word in education is now ENGAGEMENT. My experience is . . . . Continue Reading »
This is appalling. A posthumous biography of Steve Jobs is out and it reveals that he had a relatively slow growing pancreatic cancer—and rather than having immediate surgery and standardized treatment, he tried instead to cure himself with a vegan diet and other similar nonsense! . . . . Continue Reading »
So Ron Paul has released his plan to cut one trillion from the budget and balance the budget in three years. Well, I don’t like it. Here is a nonexhaustive list of reasons why, 1. Ron Paul cuts 2013 Medicaid spending to a level 30% lower than the Ryan budget (and . . . . Continue Reading »
They’re vital, at least, for those not wanting to apply the brain to Mr. Cain. 1.) It sounds like John Presnall is right about that documentary by Crowe on Pearl Jam, but I now have a slight interest in it, because the apparently poor choice of rockumentary material might indicate . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an old Jewish saying: “If you save a life, you’ve saved the world.” If that is true, the Alliance Defense Fund has saved many worlds, preventing profoundly cognitively disabled people from being intentionally dehydrated to death by having tube-supplied sustenance . . . . Continue Reading »
Surely one needs to realize that when you stake all your life on your music then there could be the chance of an ultimate failure as a result of one’s efforts. Like the thousands of pretty blondes whose lives get destroyed in the effort of becoming the next Jayne Mansfield or Cameron Diaz, why . . . . Continue Reading »
It hasn’t shown up in the polls yet, but Cain is melting right in front of us. For those keeping score, the simple and transparent 9-9-9 plan is now a 9-9-9 plan except when it is a 9-0-9 plan except when it is a 9-0-9 plan with a special empowerment zone discount. Oh, and it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, he’s not. I just wanted to make a dumb blond joke. And it’s not like it’s wrong for someone to calll attention to the downside of Thatcherism. But if our friend the crunchy yet conservative Mr. Dreher is right, he’s confused. He criticizes America for being hobbled by . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Governance and Prison Gangs The Mexican Mafia is a fairly small prison gang (perhaps 150-300 made members) and it has significant operational control only within prisons in Southern California yet the Mexican Mafia is extremely powerful. In fact, the MM taxes hundreds of often larger Southern . . . . Continue Reading »
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