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Teacher Diversity In America
The Center for American Regress Progress (CAP), a left-wing think tank, is sounding the alarm about teacher diversity or rather the lack of it (see here). According to CAP, the findings of studies about teacher diversity are stark: minority students make up 48 percent of the … Continue reading
Punishing Bad Thoughts – Part 2
So liberal folks have had a week to mull over the punishment of Donald Sterling, owner of the L.A. Clippers basketball team, due to statements he made in the course of a private conversation with one other person, which is to say because of his … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sports
Tagged Donald Sterling, liberal mind, Mike Wise, NBA, police state, racism, thought control, thought police
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Punishing Bad Thoughts
Liberals continue to attack anyone whose thinking doesn’t conform to their ideology, and their efforts seem to be picking up steam. Lately, liberals have sought to punish Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty and Donald Sterling, owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, for certain statements relating to homosexuality and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sports
Tagged Donald Sterling, liberal mind, police state, racism, Sally Jenkins, thought control, thought police
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Attacking Federal Worker Compensation
Conservatives think they have scored again in their ongoing attack on federal workers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal (see here for a reprint at AEI), Paul Kupiec points out that federal bank regulators earn higher compensation – gasp! – than employees of the … Continue reading
Higher Taxes
The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn is positively giddy about tax day (see here). Echoing the first George Bush, Cohn wants everybody to “read his lips.” Except unlike Bush, Cohn is demanding more new taxes rather than no new taxes. Ah yes, what … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, competition, Jonathan Cohn, liberal mind, taxes, welfare, welfare state
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The Very Courageous Lena Dunham
So now Lena Dunham joins the crowd of courageous Hollywood liberals who mock the Bible. On this past weekend’s Saturday Night Live (see here), Dunham shed her clothes in a spoof of the Garden of Eden story. Actually we didn’t really see her … Continue reading
Posted in People, Politics
Tagged Christianity, Hollywood liberals, Lena Dunham, misogyny, Saturday Night Live
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Obama’s Consistency
In his latest column (see here), Dana Milbank thinks he’s caught Republicans in an inconsistency. He argues that Republicans are incoherent when they call President Obama a tyrant as he overreaches on domestic issues while at the same time calling him weak and indecisive on foreign policy, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics
Tagged Dana Milbank, liberal mind, President Obama
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Defending Authority
So again, a writer at the Washington Post characterizes Republicans as jihadists. This time, it’s columnist David Ignatius who mocks Republicans (see here) because they – gasp! – dared question the administration’s actions in the wake of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi on … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics
Tagged Benghazi, Benghazi attacks, David Ignatius, liberal mind, Senate intelligence committee
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More Government Incompetence
Anyone who has plans to visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in D.C. (the world’s second most visited museum) to view the museum’s dinosaur hall will be out of luck beginning April 28. At that time, the hall will close for … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, dinosaur hall, Fossil Hall, liberals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
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“Empirically Driven” Liberals
Writing in the New Republic (see here), Noam Scheiber counsels liberals such as Michael Moore not to despair about Obamacare’s start-up problems because Obamacare “paves the way” toward a single-payer system that is beloved by liberals, one and all. According to Scheiber, increasing insurance … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Politics
Tagged central planning, health policy, liberals, Noam Scheiber, ObamaCare, single-payer
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