On the Obama team’s attack on Rush Limbaugh:
Further, for a man who ran on a platform of bipartisanship, and the politics of hope over fear, this reeks of hypocrisy. It takes its place as yet another broken promise that led us, naively, to believe in transparency and ridding Washington of earmarks and lobbyists.
Source: Marty Racine On Second Thought
On the Manitoba Human Rights Commission:
There’s a lot of problems with this.
Doesn’t this guy sound a lot like Mike Harris:
He called on states to impose tougher curriculum standards, and in an echo of language often used by President George W. Bush, he chided states that he said were “low-balling expectations for our kids.â€
Saying he would “cultivate a new culture of accountability in America’s schools,†Mr. Obama said states and school districts should weed out bad teachers.
A hat tip to Andrew Coyne, who writes:
Charter schools? Merit pay? Closing bad schools? Tougher standards? What kind of wacko, right-wing, Bushoid propaganda is this? In certain parts of this country, you can’t so much as say the words “charter schools†without being hounded into oblivion. Only it’s Obama saying it, so it’s okay.
Are you listening, Ontario Conservatives? You have just been given permission to have another go at education reform. Only this time get it right.
So many clichés come to mind when I consider the antics of this fellow. Something about living in glass houses and throwing stones is appropriate, along with the kettle calling the pot black. It seems Warren has had his feelings hurt yet again, and he’s launched a $1-million libel suit against the Conservative party and Public Works Minister Christian Paradis:
Kinsella’s Toronto-based lawyer, Brian Shiller, accused the Conservative party and Paradis of “egregious conduct.”
“It’s a concerted campaign by the Conservative party to target and defame and destroy the reputation of a private citizen who is a volunteer for the Liberal party and nothing more,” he said.
Warren Kinsella seems to have made a career out of attempting to target and destroy the reputation of private citizens he disagrees with. He’s even written a book on the subject. As another blogger puts it:
The Jackal needs to take a long look at his behaviour. The arrogance and the deep sense of entitlement need to be considered. He needs to take a break from litigation and from blogging. Most of all, he needs to consider whether he has falsely accused decent people of things which are nasty and untrue.
For more backrgound on the self-proclaimed “Prince of Darkness” have a look here.
A reasonable person would see the record of repeated failures in government-run medicine as evidence that such a system is not sustainable. Yet every central planner thinks he or she — or his or her immediate group — is smart enough to correct the flaws of socialist programs and therefore has the moral authority to force others to participate in his experiments. It is the same thinking that will move a person to say we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, March 06, 2009
Call me a cockeyed optimist, but the difference between now and Mao is almost enough to make you believe in progress.