Education in Detroit

What is the value of a diploma?   It is not what the issuing institution, nor the recipient feel it is worth.  Rather a diploma is worth as much as a prospective employer perceives it to be worth.   So how much

Most people will remember, I think… at least those not ‘educated’ at government schools… that Hiroshima was hit by a bomb at the end of world war two… and we’ve all seen some of the destruction wrought by that attack.

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• UNEMPLOYMENT AT 9.8%: That’s far worse than was estimated… about double, in fact. And if you count those who have simply giving

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This is the “Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies” Edition. Ah, Charley Pride.

• NEW WORLD ORDER: Does anyone remember when that

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This is the “Future Camper” Edition

• I have the POWER…. So now Arlen Specter is willing to compromise on “Card Check”?  I

After pigging out on hamburgers, Barack Obama tries a new diet, crow;  Micheal Goldfarb, Weekly Standard:

Obama Accepts False Choice of Military Commissions

Passed to a friendly reporter at the Washington Post late on a Friday afternoon is

Bush adminstration prepared for pandemics, Tevi Troy, Wall Street Journal:

Swine flu has presented the Obama administration with its first major public-health crisis. Fortunately for the Obama team, the Bush administration developed new tools that will prove critical

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

DALLAS -(AP)- The coach of a Texas high school basketball team that beat another team 100-0 was fired Sunday, the same day he sent an e-mail to a newspaper saying he will not apologize “for a wide-margin victory when my

Yes, I noticed the interview, though admittedly I didn’t watch it. Rather, I read the transcript.

Suffice to say, I’m not impressed. He came over to Fox, making a lot of noises he must ahve figured would be popular

• Is there life in Ipse Dixit? It’s moving for the first time in recent memory, and was noticed by a feed I apparently didn’t remember to turn off, years ago.
• Ah, yes, the typical ploy… if you can’t convince

• I can’t let this touching post of McQ’s slide off into oblivion in Google somewhere, without commenting on it. The guys involved with this project would modestly tell you it’s all part of being a soldier. They’d be right in

Ann Althouse notes liberal discomfort with the John McCain biography tour:

Bill Scher perceives irony in McCain’s ad — which depicts his life story, including his service in Vietnam — because it is “very much about ‘I.'” Scher thinks the

On both sides of the pond, concerned parents complain about books targeting school children which promote willful homosexual behavior, as if it were  normal.   The parents complain and  the school boards ignore. 

Now good news, Mike Pechar, Jawa Report,

I forced to wonder just how stupid one has to be, to be a journalist.   For some strange reason NBC11, San  Jose, runs the below story under the headline, “Oregon Man Says He’s Pregnant:”

BEND, Ore. — An