In This Dimension

The 2nd Amendment - defending the 1st

.. which, of course, is why the 2nd Amendment exists - and why it is #2, and not #3 or #4, etc… because FREE SPEECH MUST BE DEFENDED. (No - Liberal speech codes are NOT free speech. Educated people understand this.)

Too bad the Baby Boomer Left doesn’t understand that. Thank YOU! Unionized Teachers!! AGAIN!!!

GOP Doesn’t Accept the Market - Nothing New Here

Thomas Frank writes in the WSJ today that “Suddenly Republicans are against market values?”

This isn’t news to folks paying attention.
 
The GOP hasn’t truly recognized the market since the early 1960s, if ever.

It was Carter who recognized the power of the market and the failure of government regulation in his  deregulation of the airlines – not exactly a GOP theorist.

It was the Democrats (Frank, Dodd, et al.,) who refused Bush’s attempt in 2003, and McCain’s in 2005, at regulating Fannie and Freddie - the lack of which GOP-sponsored regulation spawned the current economic mess.

So let’s stop pretending that the GOP always deregulates and the Democrats always regulate - it just[…]

Fixing American Politics

Logically this isn’t as complex as many think. One of those problems over-analyzed, over-discussed, over-complicated by everyone with an oar in the political river.

Two-Party system. No reason exists to change this and lots of reasons exist not to. Adding new parties transforms a presidential system into a parliamentary system. Yet without the ability to have a government fall when failing a Vote of Confidence because of fixed presidential terms, a multi-party system based on coalitions cannot work. Changing this would entail many very transformative Constitutional amendments. Those are very hard to pass, and for good reasons. The fact that we won’t[…]

Wilmette (Chicago) Teacher Strike

On the 18th of September the Superintendent Wilmette (Chicago, Ill suburb) Public Schools, District 39, sent the letter below to the parents and guardians of the students in his District.

Without going into the ill-mannered practice of treating adults as children, as those in the “education profession” seem innately, and irritatingly, to do, the letter has been edited, modifying the original statements to factual ones (or to correct the grammar of the School Superintendent).

Enjoy.

 
September 18, 2008

Dear parents,

I understand that some children have been asking questions about the current contract negotiations between the Wilmette Education Association and the Board of Education, especially with increasing visibility[…]

When did the GOP become the party of Adlai Stevenson?

Stevenson, told on the campaign trail one night that the “thinking people supported him” responded, “Yes, but I need to win a majority.”

The GOP will never regain majority status until it understands the fundamental American problem: the extraordinary failure of our unionized … public … education … system (and here).  Ill-educated themselves, Boomer Republicans may be unable to understand this.

Absent an education, the American voter will continue to be quite ignorant.

Acknowledging the failure of American education, the GOP pushes school choice (the ‘pro-choice’ that Democrats abhor). Not recognizing the irony, the GOP insists on speaking to the voters, however, as though they were educated.

News[…]

Crushing Dissent the Democrats’ Way

The ad linked here is only on the web now. It needs wide circulation. It needs network buys.

The idea that half of America actually wants for President a man who has never held a job - who probably never even had a paper route or mowed a neighbor’s lawn for a buck - is appalling.

The idea that we have the opportunity for our first post-Baby Boomer President (a VERY GOOD THING), but that he is only recycling Muskie and McCarthy and McGovern and the utterly failed and discredited Carter, and who is the most Liberal voter in the Senate, truly[…]

Teacher Unions

From the Wall Street Journal today:

$2.3M fighting against school vouchers - even though even Washington DC Democrat politicans admit they work.

$20K to poll on a state constitutional convention.

$60K to oppose property-tax cuts.

“NEA finished 2007-08 with a surplus of nearly $5.9 million, which means the union will enter the 2008-09 school year with almost $20 million available to spend.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if the union that mis-educates America’s future spent its time and money on the classroom instead of partisan politics?

WSJ July 28: No, Sen Obama, vouchers are a successful, market-driven answer to the failures of the teacher unions of the[…]

Pop Quiz

Pop Quiz: if Al Gore’s or Barack Obama’s or Nancy Pelosi’s food budget doubles from 0.1% to 0.2% of their net annual earnings, but if those who vote for and believe in these Democrat politicians see their food budget double from 12% to 24% of their much smaller annual earnings because of the policies of Gore and Obama and Pelosi – why do those people still vote for Democrats?

Mid-Term: If not enforcing current immigration policies, as Democrats insist somehow is correct -even though illegal, results in an overflow of low-skill workers, driving down the wages of the American worker, why do American[…]

Barry’s Pearl Harbor “Bomb” [sic]

If anyone, anytime, anyplace needs further proof of the ignorance and naiveté of Obama on history, defense, national security, etc., one need look no further than this video of a recent speech of his.

“The bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor.”

THE bomb?

Earth to Barry: Hundreds of bombs and torpedoes fell on Pearl Harbor. The bomb?

This is a guy half this country is willing to have as President? The most powerful position on the planet? “57 states”?? “The bomb”?

If this man ever was taught anything as a kid, in his Madrassah or when he attended a real school, if he ever watched a[…]

Misinformation and Elections

Yesterday in Seattle I listened to a radio commercial for the Democrat nominee for Governor of Washington state.

It was amazing in its disregard for the truth.

First it blamed all the ills of the world on Bush; that’s to be expected this time around. But then it went off the deep end with the following, none of it remotely truthful or factual.

Republicans will overturn Roe. Hate to break it to Dems, but no president has anything to do with Roe and can’t change it in any way shape or form. And - if it were overturned, the result would be immediate legislation in all[…]