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• Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Daughter Indicted on Charges of Money Laundering and Fraud — Here Are the Details

  April 11, 2013 at 2:04pm

  In reply to AvengerK.

  I think it goes like this:

  Reverend Wright’s chickens…….are coming home………To Roost!!

  Gotta get the cadence right for the full affect. Glad I could help.

• Read Veteran Teacher’s Witheringly Scornful Resignation Letter: ‘I Am Not Leaving My Profession…It No Longer Exists’

  April 10, 2013 at 8:36am

  I didn’t teach as long, or probably as well, as Mr. Conti before I retired. I wish I was as articulate as he is. However, I share some of his sentiments.

  I relocated to a district and state that was implementing a curriculum that comported to the Common Core. We were told to forget everything we thought we knew about teaching. We were told to get out from between the lessons and the students and let students teach themselves. We were not allowed to write our own assessments. We had to teach each lesson exactly as directed by the teachers’ text. That text might provide three pages of direction dictating each detail, down to how long to spend on each part of a daily lesson. We could not deviate, even if that meant students did not learn. When we questioned any part of this, we were told to “trust the text.”

  I had been writing my own worksheets, reviews, and assessments for years with excellent results. I was told if any outside material was determined to be in my classroom it would be confiscated. I had absolutely no control over what was taught in my classroom, or how it was taught. I, too, tossed in the towel at the end of the year.

  Why is this being done? To get money from the feds. If I were king, the Dept of Ed would be eliminated and those morons who inhabit it would be sent out to actually teach.

• Has Gun Ownership in American Homes Really Decreased This Dramatically?

  March 11, 2013 at 9:16am

  This study has to be true. In fact, I was in Scheels last week and they only had two Glocks, two Springfields, no AR’s, and no 10-22′s. No ammo in common calibers, either. There certainly are fewer guns out there.

• Afghan Police Officer Opens Fire on U.S. Troops, Killing 2

  March 11, 2013 at 7:39am

  We remain in that nation, and continue to spend blood and money there, to what end? Invade and conquer, fine. Remain and babysit Islamists, no.

• Karl Rove: GOP Needs to ‘Get Up Off the Mat’ & Find More Diverse Candidates

  March 2, 2013 at 11:02pm

  In reply to Pondskum.

  Yup. Sounds like he wants to out Democrat the Democrats. Choose candidates based on race and we are no better than, well, the folks who voted for Obama.

  How about the Repubs actually stand for something? How about the Repubs actually do what they say they will do? How about the Repubs throw out the Rinos like Rove and replace them with Tea Party libertarians?

• Dem Congressman Explodes on Fox News, Calls Sean Hannity ‘Immoral’ and a Lying ‘Shill for the Republican Party’

  February 27, 2013 at 11:45am

  This Congressman is a thug. Pure thug. Problem is, he accurately represents his constituents.

• Rick Perry: Texas Going Blue ‘Is the Biggest Pipedream I Have Ever Heard’

  February 24, 2013 at 5:36pm

  In reply to raybaker35.

  Keep believing, Granny. Demographics are destiny. I no longer have to press one for English. How about you?

  In 2006 or so, Republican, under Perry, shelved proposed legislation intended to discourage illegal immigration at the state level. They, the Republican leadership, refused to allow the legislation to come to a vote in Austin. Perry only put cameras on the border, so we could watch on the Internet and call in if we saw anything suspicious. I am not kidding. The illegals kept shooting out the cameras. If you are a Texan, you remember that. I kept up with Texas politics for over thirty years. Rural Texas is still the conservative Texas. The cities, and Perry, not so much. The trend is not your friend. Bienvenidos a Mexico, abuela.

• Snow Plow Driver ‘Dogg’ Fired After Posting Video of Himself Burying Parked Cars After Blizzard

  February 24, 2013 at 4:00pm

  He didn’t do anything wrong. If you are parked on the street when the plow comes by you are going to have to dig it out. That’s life in the frozen north. Guess if he hated his job he would still have it.

• Rick Perry: Texas Going Blue ‘Is the Biggest Pipedream I Have Ever Heard’

  February 24, 2013 at 3:51pm

  In reply to raybaker35.

  Ray is correct. I left Texas, a state I truly care for, about three years ago, largely because of this. The border counties are all Dem. So is a strip from San Antonio, through Houston, Austin, and into DFW. The border and the major cities. This is in no small part due to politicians like Governor Goodhair who talk the talk, but absolutely will not walk the walk with regards to illegal immigration. Texas cannot pass any Arizona type immigration laws because the Dems are already too powerful. Rick Perry is not popular in Texas. He has proven too many times he will say what he needs to get elected but will not follow through. Texas is already purple. Dems hold EVERY elected position in Dallas (at least at the time I got my family, and tax dollars, out of the area). Texas will be blue soon enough. Trust what Governor Perry says at your own peril. Poor immigrants are here to work, but also for the government benefits. They will vote for those who give them other people’s money. Period. They will, and do, vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

• NYTimes: middle class tax increase ‘necessary’

  February 23, 2013 at 9:09am

  I am middle class, and each year my federal taxes amount to the cost of a new car. The IRS is my single largest expense. I stopped working full time because, due to other sources of income, I was working two days of each week purely to feed Washington D.C.’s hunger for money. I knew the politicians were only using this money to redistribute in such a way to ensure their remaining in power, and on the public dole themselves.

  Let them raise my taxes. I will work less than I already do for dollars, utilize the time to increase my independence from the economic system, and watch as the productive sector of society, from which the feds feed like a parasite, shrinks even further. What extra dollars I do make will go towards acquiring real assets that have no third party risk, and that the fed will have no claim to. Bring it.