With the ever-increasing role the federal government is playing, the state of primary and secondary education in these United States has over the last thirty-plus years decayed – tragically, tremendously and inexorably. President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 gift to the teachers’
Richard Epstein in Hoover’s Defining Ideas: What is so striking about Obama’s shopworn rhetoric is its juvenile intellectual quality. His explanation for how the AJA will create jobs is a non-starter because he does not explain how we get from
NIRVANA’S “NEVERMIND” IS 20 YEARS OLD? All I remember about this album is that it ushered in the grunge era which in turn forced me to stop wearing flannel shirts because I’d rather be dead than trendy. Yep, it’s been
Michael Moore recently pontificated that under Obamacare Americans would have to wait for certain non life-threatening procedures such as a knee replacement. In his mind a “patriotic American” would be happy to do so. If one takes a critical look
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. * President Obama delivers ‘warmest pro-Israel speech ever’ to UN * Palestinians back off on statehood bid — temporarily * Israel uses ‘The Scream’ as Palestinians demonstrate * ECB ‘dissidents’ meet secretly to oppose
When the story of last month’s raid on the Gibson Guitar factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville broke, the first thought that hit me was…”Were the drawn weapons really necessary? Is this still America?” Imagine my complete surprise when
The upheavals of the sixties had political and cultural contexts – the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. There is a great debate about the relationship between culture and politics; a which-came-first conundrum similar to the vexed “chicken
From The Wrap: Hollywood donors are high on the list of political donors whose money is presumed lost in an alleged embezzlement scheme that led to the arrest last week of a longtime Democratic operative. Sony, Disney, News Corp., labor
One of my life’s maxims is: Education and knowledge are often mutually exclusive. With the Barack Obama Administration’s all-out assault on the for-profit higher education industry, one of the books I have long intended to write is becoming ever more
AFP: For many people, the images of commercial airliners hitting the Twin Towers, and of Manhattan engulfed in a huge dust cloud as they collapsed, looked like a Hollywood apocalypse-style movie. But despite that — or maybe in part because
Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Frank is joined by author and political commentator Bat Ye’or for a full hour to discuss the Muslim world, “Eurabia,” dhimmitude, universal rights and much more. The Cairo-born refugee, who know resides in
Watching the jubilant Libyan rebels celebrating in the streets of Tripoli, it’s easy to get caught up in the euphoria of the moment as a brutal tyrant is at last being brought down. The spokeswoman at the Department of State
Democratic and Working Families Party Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut dusted off the speech he had planned to make at the end of June, when state employee unions rejected a $1.6 billion concession package that would close a hole in
President Bush’s foreign policy has often been reduced to unkind terms by his detractors. He was considered a reckless cowboy, a hick, an idiot that lucked his way into office and benefited from his father’s life time in politics. His
Bat Ye’or’s 2005 Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis portrayed Western Europe’s recrudescent dhimmitude, chronicled in real time, by our most informed contemporary scholar of the dhimmi condition. Living as an eyewitness in Geneva–a major European center, with its United Nations, NGOs
Warren Buffett’s at it again. He has a column in the New York Times complaining that he has been coddled by the tax code and that “rich” people should pay higher taxes. My first instinct is to send Buffett the
Avian Cloaca: Bousquet’s Sharia Metaphor Foxman: Avian-Brained on Sharia Abraham Foxman’s latest uninformed rant, “Shout down the Sharia myth makers,” re-affirms his nonpareil status as the most blindly agenda-driven and distressingly stupid organizational Jewish “leader.” The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)’s Foxman
In my recent post, “Is Revolution in the Air? If So, Let It Be an American Revolution,” I tried to articulate what makes us – American-minded patriots – different and uniquely equipped to respond to the growing mess around us
Nowadays everyone has a cell phone. In fact, most can’t even recall how life happened before cell phones existed. But there is one group of Americans who largely remain contract free and live without the convenience of a smart phone.
Comrades, many of you wonder why I blog at this hateful website and others owned by the notorious racist Andrew Breitbart. I do so in order to hold Breitbart and his minions accountable to the people, to make him suffer
The conservative blogosphere is delirious over the recent screed by right-wing pseudo-scholar Tim Groseclose, Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. Groseclose claims to use statistical methods to prove that the American media is biased towards the
We movie fans love our Blu-ray and DVD collections, our shelves overflowing with the titles we love, but pretty soon they’re going to be like vinyl records, premium product for the die-hard consumer. It’s no big statement to point out
“Men of experience succeed even better than those who have theory without experience…If, then, a man has the theory without the experience, and recognizes the universal but does not know the individual included in this, he will often fail to
Norway in shock over ‘blond on blond’ terrorist violence Norwegians thought they were immune to this kind of violence. Norway is the land of peace and tranquility. They are the peace brokers, involved in conflict resolution, proud of their country
Not much is new in all of this – innocents have been massacred by arrogant, deluded, self-important failed humans since time immemorial. Now Oslo and Shanksville are neighbors in a global world and a global failure. It is difficult to
