In 1999, the Democratic legislature ran a reckless gamble that makes Wall Street's bankers look cautious. At the top of a bull market, they assumed their investment returns would grow at a 8.25% rate in perpetuity—equivalent to assuming that the Dow would reach 25,000 by 2009—and enacted a huge pension boon for public-safety and...
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Campus Leftists Don’t Believe in Free Speech – WSJ.com
Campus Leftists Don’t Believe in Free Speech – WSJ.com.
Ignorant Teacher Confronts McCain Kids
This is the quality of teacher they allow in Cumberland, North Carolina. She can’t even put two intelligent words together and yet she beats up a 5th grader. Cumberland County, North Carolina Cumberland Schools Superintendent William C. Harrison: 910-678-2300 This genius, Diantha (tehehe) Harris, teaches 5th Grade at: Mary McArthur A+ Elementary School, 3809 Village...
Video: Escaped The Plantation, Voting McCain
Perhaps the best speech given during this entire campaign cycle. The O-Team More genius by ZO. See more great clips here
Gavin Newsom Marries Two Women on First-Grader Field Trip
The money’s flying on both sides of the Marriage Protection proposition While the No on 8 side has gotten big donations from Hollywood luminaries like Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg and Knight, the Yes on 8 side has a media star, too, and not an expected one: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Mining snippets of...
Tickler’s Letter to Thomas Friedman
I sent a note to Thomas Friedman today, about the protectionist position Obama is taking on jobs, just to win the votes of down-and-out lower middle class families. He’s a wily and sinister candidate, but certainly a thoroughly say-anything-to-get-a-vote politician. Mr. Friedman, I’ve been enjoying your book The World Is Flat for the many...
Ayers-Style: Anti-Capitalist Education Reform
A Manhattan Institute Fellow, Sol Stern, has written a piece about William Ayers and his “education reform” really means to the American education system… I’ve studied Mr. Ayers’s work for years and read most of his books. His hatred of America is as virulent as when he planted a bomb at the Pentagon. And...
Kenyan Economist: Stop The Aid To Africa!
There’s a incredibly insightful article in Spiegel about the damage foreign aid brings to third world countries in very plain language. These are things I and others have been saying for years, but when you have an economist from Kenya saying the same, maybe people will believe it now. The Kenyan economics expert James...
