MMMmmmmmDonuts. In the past few weeks I have written often about giving young Americans the opportunity to learn work habits at an early age. This week I want to tell you about a 16 year old I met recently in New Hampshire who discovered the many rewards of hard work at 11 years of age. [...]
“There is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered, capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008,” the report says, explaining that those domestic economic factors would have caused a “normal downturn” but not the “near collapse” of the global economic system that took place. Suspects include financial enemies in Middle Eastern states, [...]
National Education Association’s retiring top lawyer, Bob Chanin, speaking at the NEA’s annual meeting in July, 2009: “Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is [...]
At what cost will China rise? China’s rapid growth is often painted as a threat to American interests. But President Obama said today that the country’s economic progress benefits the United States and opens the door to greater international stability and humanitarian progress. “We welcome China’s rise,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference at [...]
From the NY Times…here’s a link: None of this necessarily distinguished him from his high school buddies. Several of them dabbled in drugs, played computer games like World of Warcraft and Diablo and went through Goth and alternative phases. Jared and a friend, Zane Gutierrez, would also shoot guns for practice in the desert; Jared, [...]
Breitbart: I’m Not Sorry. Team Obama apologized to Shirley Sherrod in an embarrassing about-face after a distorted video made her out to be a racist. Lloyd Grove talks to Andrew Breitbart about his sympathies for Sherrod and liberals’ double standard. Media-circus ringmaster Andrew Breitbart, the self-styled scourge of everything liberal and politically correct, has really [...]
Who’s Gunning for Lindsey Graham? His vote for Elena Kagan’s nomination is just the latest conservative heresy from South Carolina’s senior senator. Samuel Jacobs on the Tea Party’s preferred challenger: Love Gov. Mark Sanford. Lindsey Graham is toast—or so say conservatives nationwide and at home in South Carolina. On Tuesday, Graham cast a vote in [...]
Roberts: Scene at State of Union `very troubling’ By JAY REEVES (AP) – 16 hours ago TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.” Obama chided the [...]
Welcome to the future, where the Gubment gets paid more than the private sector…your head may explode after reading. Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the [...]
- Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984