…make better Star Trek? John Scalzi thinks not.
Category Archives: Education
Smarter, Not Bigger Stimulus
I have some more advice for Barack Obama that, like Joel Kotkin’s, he will be constitutionally unable to take, over at PJM today.
Remembering The Victims
…of communism:
[Update a few minutes later]
Thoughts on the Berlin Wall, from John O’Sullivan.
(Yes, I know I’m a day late with this stuff, but hopefully not a dollar short. But then, a dollar’s not what it used to be.)
Twenty Years After The Fall
Continued apologists for the communist monsters, particularly on the left and in academia. Imagine the uproar if Anita Dunn had said “…Hitler, one of my favorite personal philosophers.” And yet Mao murdered many more people, an order of magnitude more, than Hitler ever dreamed of killing.
And unfortunately, the old demon isn’t dead. It continues to insinuate itself into our political discourse, but in more subtle ways, via watermelon environmentalism, and demands that health care is a “right,” and that profits and those who earn them are evil.
They Couldn’t Have Found Anyone With More Expertise
If this is true, whoever sets up lectures at Harvard had his sense of irony removed at birth:
HARVARD UNIVERSITY EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS
Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption.
Truly amazing.
I Wonder How These Would Sell?
On campus…?
And how many would get the irony? Or would they just be confused?
Kill The State Department?
Some thoughts. I think that several departments and agencies should be razed, and be rebuilt from the ground up (if they need to be replaced at all). State is an essential department, but it does need a complete overhaul. Same thing with the CIA, which would be disbanded, and replaced with something else. Over course, the departments of Education and Labor should be simply eliminated.
Want To Slow The Economy?
We Are A Republic
…not a democracy. Some people apparently need continual reminding.
Is Our Children Learning?
If it was the Bush Education Department, I think that this would be a bigger deal. But what’s important, of course, is for the children to think about how they can help the Leader, not that old-school stuff like grammar.
[Update a few minutes later]
I think that they also need to teach them to go away from the light, not toward it.
[Late afternoon update]
Let’s keep our kids home that day.