Original Post: I was an immigrant.
Maybe I’m remember this wrong. Maybe not. I met my best high school friends at the lunch table. Scott Oppelt, John Clancy, Christian Saller, Tom Newport, and . . . and dude with curly blond hair who was in Scott Oppelt’s band. John. John Martin. I met them early in my junior year. We had…
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The education reformers are determined to reduce the performance gap, to turn students who come from poor backgrounds into copies of students who come from advantaged backgrounds. They are trying […]
Planned Parenthood’s abort and harvest facilities are getting attention across America thanks to undercover video showing officials haggling over prices for baby organs and another video showing workers sifting through a pie plate of dissected unborn baby, looking for arms and legs with the same casual disposition of a person searching a bowl of M&Ms […]
In this episode, I talk global warming and bogus data with Tony Heller of Real Science. I also talk about the Planned Parenthood videos with Sarah Zagorski of LifeNews.com. I close the show with a talk with YidWithLid’s Jeff Dunetz.
Original Post: How to kill a movement.
Did you ever see a movement grow? Did you see the way it starts? Did you feel it spread around you? Did you hear it rustling the leaves and scraping the sidewalk? Did you want to kill it? The weird thing about movements is that opposition tends to strengthen them. Movements feed on hostility the…
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Original Post: Dissolve the Empty See (MTC).
The Holy See is in Rome.The Empty See is in St. Louis. The Metropolitan Taxicab Commission (MTC) is a racket to protect incumbent taxicab companies. They use their power to keep St. Louis in the stone age of transportation. It’s time to dissolve the MTC. It has served its purpose and outlived its usefulness. Like…
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Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder was on KMOX this afternoon to talk about the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission’s (MTC) non-action on Uber. Talking with Mark Reardon, he said the lack of UberX service in St. Louis wasn’t just an embarrassment for St. Louis. He said it was an obstacle for bringing good innovators to the […]
How terribly sad and criminal. Even preschoolers (ages 3-4) know are assessed on their math and language arts capabilities. Gone are the days of learning at your own pace at […]
The St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission met today before an audience of around 200 people. They were supposed to decide today whether to allow people in St. Louis to use their vehicles to give people rides in exchange for money. (Yeah, for some reason government thinks it needs to be involved in what you do […]
Original Post: Keep Missouri Money in Missouri with TEA.
The Transportation Empowerment Act gives states control and funding for their roads. It is a far superior to the Highway Trust Fund, which is slush fund for pork projects. Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA) from Senator Mike Lee would gradually shift federal gasoline taxes from Washington back to the states where they were collected without a…
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The right does not have a monopoly on nutjob conspiracy theorists. One making the rounds right now is that Sandra Bland was dead when her mugshot was taken. Here’s a taste: Doesn’t say much for the Army’s training on “attention to detail.” Or their psych evals, really. The only thing missing from that rant is […]
The protectionists at the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission are meeting tomorrow night to discuss ride-sharing, specifically Uber: Location change to SLCC Forest Park for Wednesday’s @STLTaxiComm mtg & @Uber_Missouri vote. #uber #STL #StayTunedSTL pic.twitter.com/nmkzwt8t4y — Casey Nolen KSDK (@CaseyNolen) July 28, 2015 It was moved to a larger venue: The commission usually meets at […]
Right to Life held a rally on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, where state officials, representatives of Ohio Right to Life and other anti-abortion groups spoke. One of the speakers was Democratic Rep. Bill Patmon, who was awesome: You hear a lot of demonstrations across the country now that black lives matter. Well, they […]
Character Education is an integral component in the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Its purpose is to shape student’s attitudes, behaviors and beliefs, and data will be gathered to determine […]