http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/will-congress-rein-in-this-imperial-presidency An extraordinary thing happened in Washington, D.C., this week. Appearing before a House Judiciary subcommittee, several constitutional scholars forthrightly and unmistakably outlined the leading danger to the survival of our constitutional republic: the usurpation of powers by President Barack Hussein Obama. This wasn’t just me, a non-lawyer, perplexed by how out-of-whack constitutional checks and […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/366206/print ‘Obamacare was sold on a trinity of lies.” That ornate phrase, more suitable for the Book of Revelations or perhaps the next installment of Game of Thrones, comes from my National Review colleague Rich Lowry. But I like it. Most people know the first deception in the triumvirate of deceit: “If you like your […]
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6649 On Wednesday, the Magen David Adom rescue organization set up a blood-donation station at the Knesset. Among other members of Israel’s parliament to volunteer to perform their civic duty was Yesh Atid MK Pnina Tamano-Shata, a lawyer and journalist by profession whose family immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia in 1984. But before Tamano-Shata, the […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/366222/printTwo mental-health bills. Two different parties. This week, President Barack Obama and Representative Tim Murphy (R., Pa.) used the anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook to unveil two very different views of how to serve the mental-health needs of Americans. President Obama announced $100 million in incremental spending in the usual way: more mental-health […]
Pollard and an American Jewish renaissance The expressions of shock and indignation that accompanied Edward Snowden’s revelations that the United States uses signal intelligence assets to spy on its allies were more than a little disingenuous. Everybody knows that everybody spies on everybody. If Germany’s spy agencies can, they are most certainly listening to the […]
http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/12/10/imagine-a-country-today-where-more-than-13-of-men-admit-to-rape/?print=1 1. Imagine a country today where more than one third of the men admit to rape…. More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy. Researchers found that more than three in four men said they had perpetrated […]
Climate exaggeration and prevarication bring horrid policies and massive wealth redistribution http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/lies-my-president-told-me?f=puball “Under my plan, if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan, you’ll be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period. Nothing changes, except your health insurance costs will go down.” It […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obamacore-the-travesty-called-the-common-core-standards-part-ii Irving school was so bad that pupils threw a chair out of a window and killed a woman walking below. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that academic performance was unlikely to have been stellar at the Irving School. The performance of the pupils in the Irving school was low even by […]
Boy fires imaginary bow and arrow, gets suspended
A ten-year-old boy has reportedly been suspended from school after he ‘fired’ an imaginary bow and arrow at a fellow pupil. No, really
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4438/boy_fires_imaginary_bow_and_arrow_gets_suspended
The US government’s monopoly education system is a travesty mostly because taxpayers spend record amounts of money and we get very poor results.
But I’m also irked at the way government schools engage in absurd displays of political correctness, particularly when it comes to make-believe weapons.
A little boy was suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade while playing by himself in Colorado. A school wanted to force a deaf child to change his name because, when using sign language to say who he is, his fingers looked like a gun. Speaking of which, a six-year old in Maryland was suspended for saying “pow” while having his fingers shaped like a gun.
All this sounds crazy, but at least school bureaucrats are consistent in their nuttiness. Not only are they against non-existent grenades and imaginary guns, they all have a zero-tolerance approach for bows and arrows that don’t exist.
Here are some of the details about what happened at a Pennsylvania school.
It is hard to believe that Julie Christie and the other 49 people, actors, writers, artists, musicians, who signed The Guardian letter really want the Bedouins to remain in squalor. Israel most certainly does not
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4434/guardian_prejudice_aside_israel_is_helping_bedouins
Some of the usual suspects in the politically correct British company of Israel-bashers are at it again. This time, fifty public figures signed a letter in The Guardian on November 29, 2013 demanding that the British government protest what the letter called “forced displacement of Bedouin Palestinians” by Israel.
Not only should these automatic critics be ashamed of themselves for their insufferable ignorance and arrogance, but they are also espousing a politically reactionary, not progressive, point of view.
The letter was signed by “experts” on people, law, and conditions in the Negev in Israel, such as the actress Julie Christie, the film-makers Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, and members of Parliament, including Jeremy Corbyn and Lady Jenny Tonge.
Many of the signers have long exhibited their acute criticism or hostility on many occasions, having signed statements about alleged violations of something or other by Israel. It is less clear their “expertise” extends to mastery of the intricacies of Ottoman Land Law in the Middle East.
All can agree that the Bedouins, numbering 210,000 in the Negev, are the most impoverished group in Israel, and one with serious social problems.
