Author: Jimmy
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Tale of Two Missions
Absolutely amazing piece of work about Chicago’s failing schools. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmnFQkD0Eg0] I have considerable new found respect for Mr. Williams after seeing this. I always thought we was railroaded out of NPR unfairly. But I also thought he was a little light intellectually. Whatever his faults (and we all have faults) it’s clear he cares…
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How Big Should Government Be?
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.— Gerald Ford, Joint Statement to Congress, August 12, 1974. I had not heard this before two days ago (yes, I don’t know where I’ve been either.) But it struck me. We, as a…
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Pentagon Smears Critics
The first casualty when war comes is the truth. — Hiram Johnson No one knows this better than the folks at the pentagon. The newspaper USA Today said Friday an editor and reporter probing Pentagon propaganda efforts have been targeted by an online “misinformation campaign.” Fake Twitter and Facebook accounts have been created under the…
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Keith Olbermann Wanders Aimlessly in NY
Unemployed, perennially confrontational talking head Keith Olbermann aimlessly wandered around Central Park South earlier this week, seemingly looking for a friend or a purpose. Our spies snapped unflattering pictures of Olbermann decked out in a giant red pullover and clownishly baggy jeans as he strolled 59th Street near Seventh Avenue, smelling the roses — or,…
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Climate Alarmist Says Burn Down Skeptics’ Homes
Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics’ Homes “Let’s start keeping track of them…let’s make them pay” via Infowars. Really?! Ya, really! “We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when…
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Prescient or Racism?
Again, a UK paper carries a story no U.S. media outlet would touch. In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough. … Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who was categorised with others as ‘anti-American and anti-white’ when he…
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Food Stamps & Taxes Suggest We’re Nearing the End
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses…
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The Catholic Church Engages
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vQt6IXXaM] A friend of mine, who also happens to be a Baptist minister, once told me that despite being a life-long Democrat he had to endorse Bush over Kerry. Kerry was just simply not compatible with his religion. There is an undoubted war on religion — all religion — in this country. It’s time…
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Chicago Teachers’ Union Closer to Strike
Both sides have agreed to the appointment of a fact-finding panel that has 75 days to issue a report recommending terms for settlement of the labor contract. Once that report is issued in the middle of July, the parties have 15 days to accept or reject the panel’s recommendation. If its rejected, the fact-finding panel…