Thousands of students who failed the California High School Exit Exam over the past decade may finally be able to graduate under a bill now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature. Source: Senate sends high school exit exam suspension to Jerry Brown | The Sacramento Bee Ten years ago California instituted the California High School Exit…
Thoreauly Disgusted
Since Ed Koch introduced the “pooper-scooper” law back in 1977 and then into the Dinkins (I give credit where it’s due in this instance) and Giuliani years with quality-of-life laws, the crackdown on windshield washermen, hookers, turnstile jumpers and the revitalization of the subway, Jackie O’s rescue of Grand Central Station and the transformation of Times Square-42nd…
The Lesson Has Been Unlearned
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war. 14 years later America has lost whatever martial spirit we had in the aftermath of the…
14 Years Later…
Rest in Peace.
Lighten up, Francis.
As the official hippie era was fading into the polyester, puka shells and post-Vietnam America of the 70’s, one bedraggled beatnik bitter-clinger by the name of David Peel was discovered by John and Yoko whilst playing (where else?) in Washington Square Park, and they in turn inflicted him upon the rest of us. I’d like to think that…
The Language Of David Brock: Orwell Would Be Proud
Jay Guevara beat me to the punch….his post below mocks David Brock and his ridiculous contention that the NY Times is a “megaphone for conservative propaganda.” But Brock does the Devil’s work here by contorting language beyond all rational understanding. His goal is clear: make any criticism of Hillary Clinton a conservative plot — an…
I Blame Big Popcorn
The pro-Clinton crusader accuses former Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan of helping to turn the paper into a ‘megaphone for conservative propaganda.’ Source: David Brock: The New York Times has ‘a special place in hell’ – POLITICO David Brock: The New York Times has ‘a special place in hell’ [Inadvertently omitted from the original post….
The “Do Something”(TM) Brigade
On Wednesday CNN did an interview with a former democrat congressman who was petitioning Obama to Do Something(TM) about the refugee crisis. I’ve written in the comments at the HQ about the perils of “Do Something”(TM) before but thought now might be a good time to rehash those arguments in a more visible (and more…
N.C. College Promise Punishment After Students Heckle Play
Performers claim remarks were so disgusting they vomited afterwards Source: N.C. College Promise Punishment After Students Heckle Play | The Daily Caller Apparently members of the freshman class at Greensboro College as well as some student-athletes (all of whom were press-ganged into attending a mandatory SJW agitprop about sexual assault, and were evidently not best…
Not This Again
Source: Brandon Marshall: White Players Treated Differently Than Black Players « CBS New York Brandon Marshall isn’t afraid to speak his mind, and that was on full display on Tuesday night. Discussing the nullification of Tom Brady’s four-game suspension on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL,” the Jets’ wide receiver theorized about how race might have played…