President Obama is following up on his State of the Union with visits to North Carolina, Georgia and Illinois. “Every dollar we invest in high-quality education can save more than seven dollars later on,” “This works,” he said. “We know it works. If you’re looking for a good bang for your educational buck, this is…
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Pravda West is not going to run this story – because it is not “a poor choice of words,” it is a rare glimpse into what this man truly thinks and believes: Poor Choice of Words? Obama Says the ‘Problem Is…I’m Not Emperor of the United States’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j3IHIsRu5yw “This is something I’ve struggled with throughout…
I think I’ll start a “green energy” company – evidently, you can make millions without ever doing anything: Workers at a Michigan battery plant built with a $150 million federal stimulus grant but never opened played games and watched movies while their wages were paid for by U.S. taxpayers, according to a government report. South…
We had several disputes in the commentary section of several posts this week. In the interest of keeping things easily followed, I figured I would address two of them here. The first dealt with an assertion that public polling shows that a majority of Americans are not happy with the direction of the country. The…
OK, I am setting all partisan politics aside and putting my philosopher/logic hat firmly in place for this post. Nothing that follows is intended to be satire, hyperbole or partisan politics. This post is based purely in logic and right reason applied to observed reality. The subject is the collective break with objective reality (otherwise…
One of the things that is apparent in all progressive theory is the idea that some overriding entity – Hobbes called it a “sovereign”, Plato’s Republic had their “guardians” – can force equality…but you have to ask yourself this question: is equality an individual concept to be measured in the context of person vs. person or collective…
