Thursday, December 20, 2012

Getting a gun in Japan

What is required to get a gun in Japan, they had 11 gun homicides last year

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Is it time to re-think stop and frisk?

A young Harlem resident caught cops on audio during a stop and frisk, he was roughed up a bit and told he was stopped because he's "a mutt". Clearly this isn't how we want our police force to act. What should we do about it.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

CNN: Bad Teacher that can't be fired

A 5 minute CNN video about a bad teacher that can't be fired, the teacher instructed 8th graders to take off their shirts and their bras in their class. Has been accused of being sexually inappropriate with female coworkers. But she hasn't been fired, and the state is struggling to fire her.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Crippling our economy

How excessive regulation is crippling our economy

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Socialism

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
It could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)

Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Full Text of the State of the Union

Full Text of the State of the Union

Liberal Media Bias: Sins of Omissions

When the media reports with Bias, it doesn't report things incorrectly, but it instead uses sins of omission. For example the majority of the money of the Bush Tax Cuts benefitted the rich, and this was widely reported in the media. However the Bush Tax Cuts actually make the tax code more progressive because it lowers the tax rates for poor and middle class and results in the rich paying a higher percentage of taxes. That second fact was left out of a lot of media reporting.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Niggardly: political correctness

An oldie but a goodie from Tony Snow: when people where clamoring for an apology from a DC staffer for correctly using the word 'niggardly' Tony Snow correctly points out that "they are actually calling on him to apologize for their ignorance.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Why isn't their more industry in America?: Obama rejects Keystone Pipeline.

If you are curious as to why there aren't more Jobs in America, it could be in part to the fact that government red tape and endless review causes companies to move overseas where they can make decisions quickly and adapt to an ever changing market place. The Obama Administration rejected the Keystone Pipeline stating that they didn't have enough time to review the project.

Title IX hurting middle school boys

In some areas, like Pittsburgh, there aren't enough girls to field a basketball team for 5th and 6th graders, the solution to the problem (so that the schools stay title IX compliant) is to not allow the boys to play if the girls don't want to, all in the name of fairness. I'm all for letting girls play sports, but should we deny boys the opportunity to play sports if their female counterparts don't want to?

Huntsman just couldn't break through

Huntsman drops out of presidential primaries

Friday, January 13, 2012

NCAA Basketball Player taken advantage of

A Center from the St. Joseph's Basketball team has been denied a waiver from his coach to play at UAB, his coach is hiding from the media and refuses to explain why he won't let his former player play somewhere else it has led some sportswriters to wonder what is St. Joe's doing and why is it stonewalling everyone.  I have wondered that myself and have emailed the coach cariano@sju.edu, and I recommend that you do as well.

Call for Civility

The Daily Show interviews the president of the National Conference for Editorial Writers whose organization is calling for civility in political debate called the Tea Party a group of "Terrorists", John Oliver of the Daily Show tries to point out the irony to her.

Chicken Feet: Sparking Trade Battle between US and China

US Chicken Feet sold in China has sparked a trade battle between the US and the Chinese