Here are the top ten things that Obama refuses to release.
The double standards are amazing, particularly considering all the Bravo Sierra the administration makes about “transparency.”
If Climate Models Can’t Predict The Past?
Credentialed, Not Educated
Employers have finally caught wise to the academic scam:
Employers, because they realize that many college graduates aren’t really educated, now routinely quiz job seekers on what they majored in and what courses they took, a practice virtually unknown a generation ago. Good luck if you majored in gender studies, communications, art history, pop culture, or (really) the history of dancing in Montana in the 1850s.
They themselves got scammed by con artists like Barack Obama, who told them that they had to get a degree, even if they have to go into unaffordable debt undischargable in a bankruptcy, while not bothering to tell them that what they get a degree in matters out in the real world.
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“This is a terrible social policy. It is deeply destructive.”
Unfortunately, that’s been true of many, if not most of our social policies over the past eighty years, and particularly over the past twenty. And we’re starting to reap the whirlwind.
“You Didn’t Build That”
Obama’s latest plagiarism from Atlas Shrugged is providing a lot of graphical fodder. And he did earn that. More devastating, I think, was Romney’s response.
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The ultimate takedown of Obama’s speech:
When Obama implied at the Roanoke, Virginia rally that some businessmen refuse to pay for public works from which they benefit, he presented a thesis which, like a three-legged stool, relies on three assumptions that must all be true for the argument to remain standing:
1. That the public programs he mentioned in his speech constitute a significant portion of the federal budget;
2. That business owners don’t already pay far more than their fair share of these expenses; and
3. That these specific public benefits are a federal issue, rather than a local issue.If any of these legs fails, then the whole argument collapses.
And all of them fail. As he notes, it’s significant because it really was revealing, and an Atlas Shrugged moment.
[Update late morning]
It’s a miracle!
The Dependency Agenda
The latest from Bill Whittle (yes, I am back in LA, got in late last night from Silicon Valley).
Still On The Road
Spent the night in Tehachapi, and driving up to the Bay Area for meetings tomorrow. Lots of good blogs in the sidebar, though. Free ice cream will resume later in the week.
Light And Scattered Posting
I’m off on a three-day business trip to Dryden, Mojave and Silicon Valley, so I’ll probably check in occasionally, but unpredictably. I’ll keep an eye on comments, though…
“You Don’t Deserve What You’ve Earned”
Channeling Elizabeth “Spreading Bull” Warren, the president’s latest message to Americans.
I think it’s just typical leftist projection, because I think a lot of Americans are justifiably thinking the same thing about him.
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build it? Really? Tell it to Elon Musk.
Going Paleo
The government has been a disaster for our health. And as he points out, it’s no coincidence that people who eat paleo tend to be libertarian. There’s a good reason for it.
Why Math Teachers Feel Unprepared
Perhaps because they are. Our educational system is a disaster on all levels, and unfortunately, too many are happy and get well paid to keep it that way.