…do they still think that Barack Obama is a friend?
Hey, they got what they claimed they wanted a year ago. And we’re all stuck with it for another three and a half years, barring some unlikely boldness on the part of Republicans.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Our Insane Farm Policies
More thoughts from Veronique de Rugy.
The Arizona Voter-Registration Decision
Despite media reports, it was a big defeat for the Left.
Security And Liberty
There are no simple answers.
What Might The Scandal End Game Be?
As the cancer on this presidency continues to metastasize, with trust in the president continuing to deteriorate, and a growing realization that the federal government is growing, or perhaps has grown beyond the limits and control intended by the Founders, it’s worthwhile to start to consider the possible political implications down the road. The conventional wisdom remains that, at worst, Barack Obama will lose the Senate next year, fail to regain the House, and be the lamest of ducks until the natural end of his term in 2017. But if things get bad enough, there is a much more radical, but completely constitutional scenario, in which the Republicans could get somewhat of a do over of last fall’s election. This will particularly be the case if enough people come to view its results as illegitimate, having been influenced by the tyrannical actions of the IRS and other federal agencies.
How could it happen? Continue reading What Might The Scandal End Game Be?
Is Our Teachers Learning?
I am completely unshocked to hear that schools of education do a terrible job of teaching teachers:
“We don’t know how to prepare teachers,” said Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College at Columbia University and author of a scathing critique of teacher preparation. “We can’t decide whether it’s a craft or a profession. Do you need a lot of education as you would in a profession, or do you need a little bit and then learn on the job, like a craft? I don’t know of any other profession that’s so uncertain about how to educate their professionals.”
You don’t say.
Farm Subsidies
It’s time to end them.
It’s always time to end them, but somehow, they always survive.
The SNAP Challenge
Democrats shopping badly.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
The “Pragmatic Moderate” In Iran
Just what is that’s “moderate” about this guy, again?
…if we are to speak objectively and without comparison to even more extreme actors, these “pragmatic moderates” are anything but moderate, and their insidious “pragmatism” — i.e., their pose as conventonal political operatives rather than fire-breathing jihadists — makes them more dangerous.
And Assad was a “reformer.” Just ask that idiot, Hillary Clinton.
Concern Trolling On Immigration
Yeah, if I were a Republican, Bob Menendez is the first guy I’d go to for political advice.