November 2009 Archives

We're a labeled people. Look around and everything has a label. A lot has been made of Sarah Palin and Going Rogue. The only thing she did do was move outside of the Republican plan for her (remain silent) and articulate her viewpoints with all of the eloquence a Ms. Wasilla could expect to do. However, Sarah Palin is not the source of our problems, but a sympton. The roots go back more than 200...

The Washington Times dug far deeper than their usual low standards yesterday in an opinion piece by Wesley Pruden, with maybe the most despicable piece of racist garbage I've read outside of Stormfront. It starts with a slam at President Obama over his bow to Emperor Hirohito of Japan:"A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers...

From Think Progress:Amazing. ...

Thanks a lot, Senator McCain. Prior to August 29, 2008, a date which will live in infamy, few people outside of Alaska had ever heard the name Sarah Palin. Even fewer had been subjected to the inane ramblings which originate somewhere inside that vast, barren, wasteland known as her mind. She was tucked safely away, thousands of miles from an unsuspecting country, hunting moose and being a hockey puck mom. But you just couldn't leave...

Yes, I know, "dumbening" is not a word. However, given the current climate of politics it seems somehow apropos. I can't take credit for the "word" dumbening actually. It came from a Simpson's episode where Lisa (the smart child in the family) thinks she is somehow losing her intelligence because all of the Simpsons did. The problem was that it was only the Simpson males that lost their intelligence. Well, a look at the last 18...

Following up on Friday's post about the Republican's screaming hissy fit over reaction to Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York City, Sarah the Quitter, correspondent from Facebook, has chimed in with her opinion:"Horrible decision, absolutely horrible. It is devastating for so many of us to hear that the Obama Administration decided that the 9/11 terrorist mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be given a criminal trial...

The victims of Obama Derangement Syndrome are becoming more and more unhinged with each passing day, and the chasm between them and reality is growing wider and wider. A few examples from over the weekend:  Overreacting to President Obama's bow in his meeting with Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Allahpundit at Hot Air wrote that it "made him look like an idiot" adding "this tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident." But that was...

"The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law."Those were the words of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in the Boumediene v. Bush decision in June of 2008, in which the Court ruled that detainees at Guantanamo had habeas corpus rights, and words which were confirmed again yesterday when Attorney...

Last week I came out with my Friday funnies on the subject of professional development for teachers, While I could go on for days talking about bad professional development, I thought I would switch gears and talk about the funny things you hear kids say in the classroom. As you hear all of these stories keep in mind that these are coming from the mouths of high school students. Most people have seen email chains of...

At the risk of giving some of my readers a heart attack, I'm going to cite a Fox News article, because I think it provides the best summation I've found yet.It has been reported that the US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, has expressed to the President serious reservations about sending additional troops to Afghanistan to bolster a government seen as corrupt and illegitimate by many.Retired Lt. Gen. Eikenberry is no State Department wallflower, though. ...