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Friday, November 20, 2009
LESS TV, NOT MORE MONEY, EASIEST WAY TO IMPROVE SCHOOL OUTCOMES
Posted by: Michael Medved at 6:01 PM

Teachers unions and other left wing pressure groups cite disappointing American educational statistics and call for sharp increases in school spending—ignoring the fact that we already count among world leaders in per pupil expenditures.

 

The education establishment prefers to ignore the most obvious explanation for poor school performance in the U.S.—irresponsibly high levels of television viewing. According to 2007 figures from the International Telecommunication Union of the OECD, Americans are in front of the tube more than 8 hours a day—by far the highest of any society, and nearly three times the figures for nations such as Norway, South Korea, Switzerland and New Zealand—all of which achieve far better educational outcomes. Rather than wasting more taxpayer money, we need a concerted national effort to reduce TV addiction and the wasted hours that result.








Friday, November 20, 2009
The Townhall Sweatshop Never Closes
Posted by: Jonathan Garthwaite at 4:54 PM
As I mentioned yesterday, the Townhall interns get the pleasure of unpacking, stuffing, stamping and mailing the books. The books arrived and the interns have been trying to keep up with demand all week.

Everybody wants Townhall Magazine and Sarah Palin's new book this week so there will be no sleep until they're all packed up and shipped.

Get your copy of Going Rogue and 12 issues of Townhall Magazine while supplies last.

*Don't worry OSHA, no interns were harmed during the making of this film.





Friday, November 20, 2009
Moms Celebrate "Twilight's" Evil, Danger, Bad Boys, Seduction, & Mom-Daughter Hi-5ing The Hot Guys
Posted by: Greg Hengler at 4:37 PM
Sure, I may be an overly-sensitive Christian who needs to understand what's really good and redemptive about "Twilight," but this segment is a massive red flag.

In 3 minutes and 45 seconds MSNBC, US Weekly, a mother and a daughter celebrated (with high-fives) the red contacts worn by a mother portraying the "bad vampires in the movie;" exclaimed that mothers and daughters can "exchange high-fives over how hot the guy was" in the movie; they applaud the "ultimate bad-boy" attractive to "girls of all age groups;" they say what works about this movie is the "seductive" portrayal of "the bad side of people -- their evil -- they're dangerous, but they look like humans "and that's why it works so well" and "people can't get enough of it" [MTV's capitalizing on this "craze," of course]; finally, we are told that the success of this film is not like "The Lord of the Rings [you're telling me]," it's because of... love?!

I fear for us. Thank God there is a Light for us to see as the world becomes darker.






Friday, November 20, 2009
The Affluent "Uninsured"
Posted by: Carol Platt Liebau at 3:38 PM
The Washington Post is running an unbelievably nauseating piece about young people who stand to inheirit a good chunk of money, but their "progressive values" mean they are "conflicted" about it (perhaps they needn't worry; if the Democrats remain in charge, it'll all be taxed away anyhow).

But as we stand on the brink of the health care bill coming to debate in the Senate, this passage from the piece leaped out at me:

"In Vermont [this year], I broke my finger and didn't have insurance," said [28 year old Janelle] Treibitz, whose father is chief executive of a Colorado company that designs visual presentations for court trials. "I got my X-ray and gave [the hospital] a fake name and walked out. Is that okay that I am doing that -- taking up resources because I am refusing to take money from my parents?"

In other words, a young woman who clearly has the ability to have private coverage -- if she chose to -- remains uninsured.  Setting aside the fraud she committed (no,  Janelle, it's NOT "okay" that you are "doing that"), it's worth pointing out how many other young Americans are in a comparable position.

Jeffrey Anderson has shown that although young people 18-24 are only 10% of the population, they represent 18% of the uninsured.  People like Janelle are not atypical -- and they put the lie to President Obama's claim that we need "reform" (and a public option) because those who are presently uninsured cannot get insurance.

Janelle could have gotten insurance; she simply refused to.  And now people like her are serving as a rationale for destroying the greatest health care system in the world.

Update: Please also note the fact that in this system -- where, we're told, people without insurance cannot get care -- this entitled young woman was able to walk into a hospital, obtain an x-ray without difficulty, and not pay a penny.




Friday, November 20, 2009
CNN's Anchor To Bullies Of "Pledge Kid": He's Smarter & You're Dork-Wads!
Posted by: Greg Hengler at 3:27 PM
Yes, it's come to this. CNN's "news" anchor Kyra "White Guilt" Phillips takes a stand against those 10-year-old bigoted bullies picking on liberal sweetheart Will Phillips. The Left sure know how to be tough when "stupid" crimes are committed against liberal dogma.






Friday, November 20, 2009
AP Studies Palin's New Book, Health Care Bill
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 3:16 PM
James Taranto has a bit today in the Wall Street Journal where he looks at the Associated Press' "fact-check" on Sarah Palin's new book and the attention they are devoting to the Democrats' health care overhaul:
An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:

Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
   • ObamaCare bills: 2
   • Palin book: 11

Number of pages in document being covered:
   • ObamaCare bills: 4,064
   • Palin book: 432

Number of pages per AP reporter:
   • ObamaCare bill: 2,032
   • Palin book: 39.3

On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism.







Friday, November 20, 2009
Friday Fun: Man Announces Candidacy for NH's Non-Existent "00" Congressional District
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 2:12 PM
Just for fun...







Friday, November 20, 2009
More Disturbing ACORN Footage From LA Investigation Released
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 1:55 PM
The plot thickens in LA with Larry Flynt, international sex businesses and ACORN's willingness to help...

Part I



Part II



And now, BigGovernment founder Andrew Brietbart is warning Attorney General Eric Holder: Investigate ACORN or more videos are on the way.





Friday, November 20, 2009
Iraqis Taunting Americans About Brett Favre
Posted by: Kevin Glass at 1:54 PM
Via Sonny Bunch comes this story about Iraqi detainees who have been able to pick up enough information to taunt Wisconsinite soldiers about their pariah Brett Favre:

According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops there.

"They know Favre by name," said First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen, who is from New Richmond, Wis. 

"One of the big words they know now is shenanigan.  They'll constantly talk about 'Favre shenanigans,' 'He's so good for the Vikings,' and 'The Packers have got to really feel bad about that one.'  "

According to Boehnen, it started when troops there started decorating their camp in Packers colors.






Friday, November 20, 2009
GMA: Michelle Obama Is The Only Possible Oprah Replacement
Posted by: Greg Hengler at 1:28 PM
The possibility of Palin being a "replacement" and the fact that she is available now does not appear to make her a contenda in the minds of the anointed. H/T: Lee Habeeb






Friday, November 20, 2009
Bumper Sticker of the Day...
Posted by: Greg Hengler at 1:20 PM





Friday, November 20, 2009
Conservative Frum on Palin’s Secret: "Very Powerful Sexual Signals"--"She Brought It On Herself"
Posted by: Greg Hengler at 11:58 AM

David Frum is -- yes, I must use school yard names -- a loser. His statement is right up there with those who blame the woman for appearing attractive when she is raped. Well, Mark Steyn had a thing or three to say about this. Via Breitbart






Friday, November 20, 2009
Dems Put Price on Landrieu's Health Care Vote: $100 Million
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 10:32 AM
Jonathan Karl reports on the ABC News blog:

What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?

Here’s a case study.

On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.” 

The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.” 

I am told the section applies to exactly one state:  Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world:  Louisiana.  (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)

Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.

How much does it cost?  According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.






Friday, November 20, 2009
"Stimulus" Fuzzy Math of the Day: Jobs Without Spending Money, Money Spent Without Jobs
Posted by: Townhall.com Staff at 10:25 AM
Guest post from Mattie Duppler with the Center for Fiscal Accountability

A GAO Report released today shows that the "stimulus" is so good at creating jobs, it doesn't even need money to do it. According to the report, over 50,000 jobs have been "saved or created" without a single dollar of "stimulus" funds having been paid for them.

However, the GAO report also shows that over $1 billion was spent without creating a single job. This could be due to the fact that recovery money was doled out to such deserving projects as propaganda signs to advertise “stimulus” projects, checks for dead people and a $100,000 microscope for Harvard, but still doesn't explain how the "jobs" bill spent money without creating jobs, and created jobs without spending any money.

Undaunted, the White House is steadfast in its support of the measure. Yesterday, the President called the massive errors in reporting a “side issue," assuring Americans that job creation was still his primary concern. As such, it's unfortunate the President has suddenly become unconcerned with the reporting of jobs,  since he has repeatedly promised 3-4 million jobs would be impacted  by his spending bill since taking office.

And the Vice-President is as oblivious as ever. It seems that he has not bothered to take a look at the recovery site he has been touting as such a success - on the Daily Show this week he first misstated the amount of imaginary congressional districts appearing on recovery.gov (Mr. Biden reported there were 70 when in fact there are over 700) and then went on to proudly proclaim “you haven’t seen any wasteful spending” under the Obama Administration. An unbelievable statement on its own merits, Mr. Biden went on to claim they had only been in office for seven or eighth months, so it’s evident that whatever world Biden resides in, it’s not the one the rest of us share.






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