Is there a suicide prevention hot-line for teacher unions? There oughta be. “A half-century ago, teachers unions had a place in the American public. Now they have forgotten their place … going from protectors … to enablers of greed and malfeasance.” Half of America now sees teacher unions in a negative light. And the unions … Continue reading The Teacher Union War On Parents
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” We keep trying to run away from what we’ve become. But we're in this moment because we invited it. By our silence. "... the Right is silenced in our culture — blacklisted and excluded and ignored in entertainment, mainstream news outlets, and the universities ..."* And we allowed … Continue reading We Did This To Ourselves
Majority leader Mitch McConnell asked “if any of his Democratic colleagues went to sleep at night with their front doors wide open.” Not a single Democrat admitted to that. But Schumer has no problem leaving our country unlocked. The gates flung wide-open … because your lives … and those of your loved ones … matter … Continue reading Charles Schumer Be Damned
I write these things because it’s my way of holding on. By my fingernails. To reality. Sometimes help isn’t just around the corner. … because sometimes there’s just too much crazy there. Southwest Airlines told a passenger that her pet fish, Cassie, wasn’t welcome to slosh around in her fishbowl during a flight from Denver … Continue reading What’s Happened To Normal?
The recent court ruling on ObamaCare jump-started a clever friend of mine … a Baltimoreon name Mike Sackett … a silky-witty writer from The Old Line State of Maryland. “With this stunning rebuke of Obama's dubiously-named Affordable Care Act, with his war on coal and opposition to the Keystone Pipeline crushed, with his Paris Climate … Continue reading The President Who Wasn’t
"Here’s something you don’t see every day: A bunch of teachers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have decided to protest ... by withholding students’ grades" Yup. They're mad. At a statue. "Silent Sam" ... a long ago alumni-gift from Civil War veterans ... was set to be moved indoors ... out of sight of … Continue reading How To Ruin A College
America's security is in the hands of these two idiots. God help us! Neither can get over Trump's election ... they "hate him so much they want him to lose ... they’d rather him lose than the country win." Thousands are pounding on our southern border ... demanding all sorts of comforts. And this pair … Continue reading And It Comes Down To These Two Idiots
She couldn’t resist … because she’s miserable by nature. Hillary Clinton would not acknowledge Donald Trump at the Bush funeral. Snubbed him. Glared and stared straight ahead. Perhaps it’s time to remind people of Hillary Clinton … and the despair we escaped. She slithered in and out of seedy circumstances … webbing her power … Continue reading Game of Thrones
Paris is burning … and the Arc de Triomphe is all sooty. I should care, but I don’t. “A third weekend of nationwide protests … largely made up of working-class people angry about a planned increase in fuel taxes and their dwindling purchasing power …” I just can’t care about France … or Europe. Not … Continue reading Up in Smoke
I don’t know how we can like ourselves very much. Not in this moment. Everything’s so disordered and ill-tempered. And lots seem very okay with this ... all right with this bankruptcy of common sense. There’s this casualness in how we mistreat sacred stuff that's made us special. How we desecrate … and adulterate … indispensable … Continue reading Things Fall Apart
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