Ordinary tools, such as pliers, screwdrivers and wrenches, are “weapons” and so a Chicago school was correct to punish a teacher who brought them to class for a visual aid, according to a new court decision. [more] So, they gonna search students’ cars in school parking lots for *gasp* toolkits? Background check and permit for [...]
April 12, 2014 – 11:09 am
Well, therrre’s your problem. In late March, the Chicago Board of Education announced an ambitious plan to implement its “turnaround” model for three low-performing elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods. The turnaround process involves the sacking of every teacher and staffer at each of the schools … Naturally, the union bosses aren’t happy that [...]
When Kim fires his staffers, they really get fired. A North Korean security minister has been executed by flame-thrower on orders of the country’s leader Kim Jong-un. It would take the death-toll purges carried out by dictator Jong-un to at least 12 since he took power as Supreme Leader after the death of his father [...]
… suffer smiting merely because of thy size ~ story ~ The stone’s size matters, however … as does its impact velocity. Also: Thou shalt defend thyself and thine, thy liberty, and thy way of life. (What? Well, it should be.)
Yeah, that’s tonight at oh-dark-thirty. (What? Okay, zeeero–dark-thirty.)
February 26, 2014 – 9:11 pm
His first television show has only been on the air for three days, but Ronan Farrow is already winning awards for his journalistic work. Reach the World, a global education group, will honor the 26-year-old Farrow with its annual Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism. [story] Sooo, whaaat … everybody gets an award [...]
February 24, 2014 – 7:59 am
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you elitist, fatuous birk. Not much to add — res ipsa loquitur. But wait … there’s more.
February 19, 2014 – 1:10 pm
Muslims have been warned in a Fatwa not to go and live on Mars because it would pose “a real risk to life”, according to a Dubai news organisation. The General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the United Arab Emirates said that anyone making such a “hazardous trip” is likely to die [...]
February 15, 2014 – 8:00 am
Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted against union representation, a devastating loss that derails the United Auto Workers union’s effort to organize Southern factories. The 712-626 vote released late Friday stunned many labor experts who expected a UAW win because Volkswagen tacitly endorsed the union and even allowed organizers into the Chattanooga [...]
February 4, 2014 – 1:37 pm
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students … that the nation’s highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but he wouldn’t be surprised if the court issued a similar ruling during a future conflict. Scalia was responding to a question about the court’s 1944 decision in [...]
February 3, 2014 – 8:54 am
I think I’m smart, therefore I am. A reporter for a widely-watched Israeli television news program has suggested that more journalists have a liberal political outlook because they possess higher intelligence. … [T]here’s correlation between one’s IQ and political leaning …. … [T]here’s correlation between one’s IQ and left [political] leaning.” [more] Keeeep tellin’ yourself [...]
February 1, 2014 – 7:57 am
If you’re keepin’ score of apologies, MSNBC is the sorriest news organization out there ~ vid ~ MSNBC has gotta be the greatest example of reality-challenged, narrative-spoutin’ ProgRegressive foot-shootin’, ever (a gift that keeps on givin’, if you will). Their acolytes are even uglier. When Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) posted a pic of his biracial [...]
January 24, 2014 – 8:35 pm
Radical conservatives are an inconvenience to progressives and other socialists. Seems there’s a movement to minimize their viability as actual persons. As mere clumps of radical cells, they’re not developed enough to be masses. Nah, I’m not saying Progs & Commies are ready to start railroading radical conservatives out of NY in cattle cars, but [...]
January 7, 2014 – 9:46 am
An Afghan girl believed to be about 10-years-old was caught in Helmand province wearing a bomb vest after her brother encouraged her to carry out a suicide attack, police officials said. The girl, named as Spogmai, had been convinced to attack border police after male relatives accused her of having “illicit relations” with officers, according [...]
December 29, 2013 – 12:44 pm
… but they can’t eat us. It’s against the law.* A Nigerian Islamic extremist says that his men would have eaten the victims of a recent attack of theirs, but Allah forbids cannibalism so they didn’t. … Abubakar Shekau who heads Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist group that seeks to establish Sharia law in the African [...]
December 22, 2013 – 7:01 pm
Uhm … Elf advocates have joined forces with environmentalists to urge the Icelandic Road and Coastal Commission and local authorities to abandon a highway project — saying it may disturb elf habitat. [more] [strokes beard, sips Rare Breed, puffs pipe] Nope, I got nuthin’.
December 9, 2013 – 3:40 pm
Fictional imagery that enlightens, rather than lies. Norman Rockwell’s Saying Grace became the most expensive American painting ever sold at auction last week, fetching $46m … at Sotheby’s in New York. [story] I’m not an art critic, but I’m sure this picture makes modern artists and critics puke.* I find it a wonderfully complex allegory, [...]
