And an antidote to the frustrations of the day, courtesy of Bill Whittle.

[Update]

David Boaz posts a thoughtful (at least I thought so) debate discussing whether it really was better in the Olden days.

The Lt. Governor of Missouri, Peter Kinder (Republican), has announced his intent to join officials from 13 other states in legal action against the legislation.

At least in this instance.

From Michelle Malkin:

"Jaime Escalante cared about kids. Not about teachers’ unions or partisan politics or educrat ass-covering or racial grievance-mongering. The Bolivian-born physics and math teacher demanded excellence and hard work, raised standards and expectations, and defied critics and naysayers by teaching algebra and calculus to East L.A. high school students whom the government school system had abandoned and written off. Escalante’s amazing results were made famous by education reporter Jay Matthews’ book, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America, and the biopic, Stand and Deliver..."

SOLO-International Op-Ed: These Are the Times that Try Men's Souls

Robert Winefield
March 23, 2010

"These are the times that try men's souls..." So began Thomas Paine's 'The Crisis.'

I'm in the process of applying for another job. Ideally, I'd like to perform commercial research in the Pharmaceutical field.

Berkley-based Hippies doing their best to make the Kansas Legislators, who banned evolution from the Kansas Public School Curriculum, look sane.

Click here to be taken to pjtv.com for the interview

[Note from Linz: I have lifted this post from Dr. Richard Goode's thread, Talk to the Rand. In it, Dr. Robert Winefield quotes from various threads to show comprehensively that Dr. Goode is simply playing nihilist word-games in the true tradition of a pomowanker.

Education, the church and State all rolled into one!

Worthwhile discussion.

Environmentalists and their priorities.

Wondering why so much of the one trillion dollar 'stimulus' package is filled with idiotic pork?

Holly Kennedy: "What if this is it, Gerry? What if this is all there is to our life? You have to have a plan. Why do I have to be the responsible grown up who worries? Why can't I be the cute, carefree Irish guy who sings all the time?" Gerry Kennedy: "Because you can't sing without making dogs bark?"

See his New Rules here

NEWSFLASH
News.com.au reports that:

Michael Yon reports on the after effects of Operation Arrowhead Ripper

For the last four months a debate has ranged on this forum over the Clayton's choice offered by the current US electoral system.

A year ago and a half ago, an infamous 5-4 US Supreme Court decision (The Kelo v. New London, Conn.) upheld a municipality's right to use eminent domain to take private property for redevelopment by a private, profit-making concern.

Welcome into the mind of a racist academic. Dr Kamau Rashidi Kambon

FYI for Americans who don't know, Rainbow was a '70s era British TV show for kids made by the ITN network. Click

Perusing the NZ Herald the other day I saw the picture of the lovely looking lass who heads up this article.

Reading the article just about caused me to start banging my head against the wall. It's about the shortage of good 20-30 year-old men in the country and thus there is an excess of single women, the beauty in the headline is a victim of this terrible calamity. Or is she?

Intensive care to save to save families

Some choice quotes from this report:

"Intensive family therapy - which can include removing members from their home - is one option the Social Development Ministry is examining as it works to deal with dysfunctional homes in which drug and welfare dependency is rife.

Freedom is not free is a non-patisan US charity set-up to raise money to help ease the load for wounded warriors as they make the transition back to civilian life. Currently, Freedom is not free is selling a calendar which may err... "interest" the ladies and many of the lads on this website.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0...

Proof that common sense is another thing you can't get from a Stone...