Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been coming across so much interesting stuff this morning that I’m going to do another flotsam and jetsam post. One of the things we’ve long known is that the Left lies about statistics. Examples of this are “1 in 4 women have been sexually assaulted” canard and the “women
Continue readingWhen we think of herd immunity, we think of vaccinations. Fewer parents are vaccinating their children nowadays because of their fears about negative reactions to vaccinations (including the now-debunked theory about vaccinations causing autism). Those parents skipping vaccination point triumphantly to the fact that, despite their children’s vaccination-free status, there
Continue readingThe State Bar of California, which I have to pay into in order to practice law in the State of California, long-ago abandoned its core responsibility of ensuring that people who hold themselves out as lawyers to California citizens are at least minimally qualified. As with all these mandatory organizations,
Continue readingFor the most part, teachers across America are hard-working, committed, good people. A teacher raised me. My Dad was willing to work for a pittance because he had a genuine calling to teach. Nowadays, teachers ostensibly get paid much more money than my Dad did, but at what cost? As
Continue readingThe American Future Fund put together a very funny video that shows Progressives before and after the Wisconsin election. Before, defeat meant an imminent apocalypse; after, defeat meant . . . nothing: You can’t blame the Progressives for their differing before and after statements. With the November 2012 election coming
Continue readingFrom Drudge: Harbinger or anomaly? I say the former. It’s not just that the voter tide is turning. It’s that the Obama-ites, who once looked invincible, now have the stench of failure and incompetence settling in around them. That becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Continue readingWatch and learn. But be warned: it’s not pretty (and I’m not talking about the fighting part).
Continue readingWhoopi Goldberg got some airplay on conservative sites the other day for pointing out something I’d already learned by the time I was 13 — Leftism is great in theory, but it doesn’t work so well in the real world. To that “duh” moment (although I doubt it will convert
Continue readingI’m surprised that there’s so little news about an upcoming nurses’ strike in Northern and Central California. This story should be a big deal, in large part because the nurses who are going on strike in thirty-four Northern and Central California hospitals actually have no complaint. Instead, they’re putting thousands
Continue readingThis post tells the story of a case on which I worked. It’s a true story. Picture this: It’s 2001. You live in California and you own a small business that consists of you and maybe three to five at-will employees. Your profits are decent. One morning, Jane, one of
Continue readingA classic Seinfeld episode concerned George Costanza’s decision (at Kramer’s urging) to park in a handicapped zone. This being George, things went drastically wrong. What I remember from the episode, though, isn’t the cascading sequence of disasters; instead; it’s the opprobrium heaped upon George for parking in the blue. His
Continue readingThe average Wisconsin teacher has a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer. After the proposed legislation goes through, the average Wisconsin teacher will still have a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer. If this was 1789, events in Madison would be the equivalent of
Continue readingAs I understand it, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, faced with a $3.6 billion biennial budget deficit (for the years 2011-2013), had the choice of raising taxes in his financially beleaguered state or firing up to 6,000 state employees. He chose a third route, proposing that Wisconsin’s public sector employees start
Continue readingThe point of a union is that it has political heft. One of the ways in which we demonstrate political heft in this country is money. Unions (just like corporations) can donate money directly to candidates and parties. The result, as Ace pithily says, is “nothing but legal corruption: they
Continue readingToday, several schools in Wisconsin announced that they would be closed so that their teachers could attend protests in the state capital, Madison, against GOP Gov. Walker’s proposals to take away collective bargaining rights from public sector unions. Wisconsin, like neighboring Illinois, is going broke. The behavior of the Wisconsin
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