For me, reason.tv is the new Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. I love it. Last week, its showcase - The Drew Carey Project - produced the 7+ minute video: Mexicans and Machines: Why it’s time to lay off NAFTA.
For those with less than 7 minutes to spare, Carey pushes the protectionist credo (against NAFTA, “cheap labor” [...]
Welcome to my inaugural “Rando Thursday Whatever”, a…well…random, outpouring of whatever stories and snippets—of a more apolitical and non-ideological stripe—I find worthy of mention. Yes, get excited for word vomit on a weekly basis!
Firstly, I’m not sure if I made it explicit in my last post, but I was in St. Louis, Missouri all last [...]
As apart of their new MEAexposed campaign, Education Action Group (EAG) put up the following billboards in Gladstone, MI.
Why? To provide some (much-needed) common sense to a dialogue that has otherwise been dominated by MEA propaganda, scare tactics, tantrums at board meetings, and–if that weren’t enough–the opening of their own crisis center.
As you can guess, [...]
Last week Tuesday, the Center for Union Facts launched the “Ten Worst Union-Protected Teachers” contest:
Thanks to outmoded, union-defended employment laws and policies, it can be impossible to fire a bad union-protected teacher. That’s why the Center for Union Facts is going to pay the ten worst union-protected teachers in America $10,000 apiece to get out [...]
Coming from Liberty is for me…, we get the state of the Texas public education system and, as usual, her thoughtful analysis:
Texans have paid $2.4 million dollars for shitty bureaucrats, Superintendents, to leave the school system.
A $2.4 million dollar buyout — paid by, of course, taxpayers — in order to do something that in any [...]
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