This past week featured not one, but two terrible ideas related to schools that people need to know about. One is a conservative issue while the other, oddly enough, is one of those issues that has bipartisan stupidity blowing its tailwind (there’s a visual, no?). Declaring that serving school children fresh fruits and vegetables might… Continue reading Educational Food Fight
Category: Education
Pension Tension
OK, who didn’t see this one coming? Governor Chris Christie says he’s not going to make the full public employee’s pension payment he promised after the Democratic turncoats in the state legislature sided with him over working people in the spring of 2011. In raw numbers, that’s a $2.4 billion dollar cut. The NJEA is… Continue reading Pension Tension
Texas Teen Proves He Can Catch His Own 40-Yard Football Pass
Watch Video College and NFL scouts should be clamoring to make a visit to the small town of Manvel, in Texas, after a teenager’s video of him catching his own 40-yard football pass has gone viral. Gary Haynes, a football player at Manvel High School, catapulted onto the national stage after a fellow player and his coach filmed him doing… Continue reading Texas Teen Proves He Can Catch His Own 40-Yard Football Pass
Marshmallow U.
If nothing else, the past week has shown that those on the left can be just as short-sighted and ill-advised as those on any other part of the political spectrum. That the forum for these misdeeds is the university make the issues that much more compelling. I’ve been waging a somewhat lonely campaign to remind… Continue reading Marshmallow U.
10-Year-Old Girl Raped By Younger Classmate As “His Sister Held Her Down” In Elementary School (DETAILS)
This world can be so cruel, and that’s an understatement. A 10-year-old girl in Oklahoma City was recently sexually assaulted by an 8-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister in their elementary scho l. According to her mom, the alleged victim ran out of Edgemere Elementary school crying and when asked what happened, the little girl replied: “Momma, they touched me… Continue reading 10-Year-Old Girl Raped By Younger Classmate As “His Sister Held Her Down” In Elementary School (DETAILS)
Mazel Tov Laos
Whatever they’re doing in Vientiane to combat antisemitism, the rest of the world needs to take notice. According to a poll just released by the Anti-Defamation League, 26% of the world’s adults harbor some form of anti-semitic attitude. From the article: The highest concentration of anti-Semitic attitudes was found in the Middle East and North… Continue reading Mazel Tov Laos
8th Grade Assignment – Write An Essay Saying The Holocaust Did Not Happen
The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for… Continue reading 8th Grade Assignment – Write An Essay Saying The Holocaust Did Not Happen
Happy Cinco De Mayo – What is Cinco De Mayo Anyways
Photo: AP Cinco de Mayo, which means the 5th of May in Spanish, is celebrated here in America, but many Americans are clueless to what it really means. The origin goes back to Mexico, when on May 5th, 1862, the Mexican army was successful in defeating French of led by Napoleon III at The Battle… Continue reading Happy Cinco De Mayo – What is Cinco De Mayo Anyways
New Jersey and Mississippi: Perfect Together
There can be no more damning a statistic than the one in today’s Star-Ledger and on nj.com. This article lays out in stark detail why Chris Christie will not be elected president, and why he should not have been reelected this past November. His economic record is terrible and New Jersey is tied with Mississippi,… Continue reading New Jersey and Mississippi: Perfect Together
Condoleeza Rice Shamed Away From Rutgers University Commencement
Condoleeza Rice was scheduled to give a Commencement speech and receive an Honorary doctorate from Rutgers on May 18th, but the students protested, blaming Rice and the Bush administration for falsely taking America into war and calling them “war criminals.” The protests were heated at times, with students and faculty alike denouncing Rice’s involvement. The school’s… Continue reading Condoleeza Rice Shamed Away From Rutgers University Commencement
The Wide Left Turn
First it was marriage equality. Now it’s the minimum wage. And prison reform. And some lefty laboratories in cities across the country. It’s not a sharp turn to the left as many had anticipated with Obama’s election in 2008. It’s a wide turn, and the country’s already done the first hand-over-hand on the cultural-political wheel.… Continue reading The Wide Left Turn
This Viral YouTube Video Shows You How To See Without Glasses
Flickr/Helga Weber Ever forget your glasses and need to see something, like read a menu or a text on your phone? Here’s an awesome trick posted on YouTube from Minutephysics. First you make a fist. Then open your fist just enough to create a tiny hole. Then peer through the hole at the object. Voila! You can… Continue reading This Viral YouTube Video Shows You How To See Without Glasses