Double paying in Britain for health care
When I lived in England, those who could afford to escape from government medicine by paying twice did so. I addition to their high taxes, they bought a private insurance that I remember rejoiced in...
View ArticleAppropriate or inappropriate? Public school sends out Kaiser Obamacare...
The principal at the kids’ public high school routinely sends out emails notifying parents about upcoming events, exposures to diseases such as whooping cough, sports victories, etc. Today’s email, in...
View ArticleAmerican schools are becoming segregated as a result of “culturism,” not racism
A friend asked me what I thought of an Atlantic article pointing to the fact that, sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, America’s schools are once again becoming segregated, as whites (and...
View ArticlePublic schools — un-educating Americans, one student at a time
I was livid this morning. One of my children asked me to quiz her about rhetorical fallacies, which she was studying for a test. The teacher had put the examples together himself and they included such...
View ArticleOn DACA, Marin County public schools take sides in a political fight
With DACA going before Congress, Marin County public schools are abandoning any pretense of political neutrality and are siding with illegal immigration. Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin...
View ArticleWith school gun protests, Proggies make a mockery of civil disobedience
Civil Disobedience is powerful because those engaged it in willingly accept the penalties the law imposes. That’s not how Proggies play the game, though. Martin Luther King in Birmingham, once upon a...
View ArticleStephen Colbert echoes my claim that socialized medicine is like public...
As I did, Stephen Colbert analogizes socialized medicine to public school, but he misses that this analogy reveals how bad socialized medicine will be. A little background: On Friday, Scott Adams did a...
View ArticleNo. 31 Bookworm Podcast: Sophisticated South, woke teachers, Leftist...
In this Bookworm Podcast, I enjoy the lovely Southeast, examine woke teachers, dream of talking back to Leftists, and look at class and college costs. My latest podcast is up and running. You can...
View ArticleI’m finding mystifying the left’s war on re-opening schools
Teachers’ unions do not want to re-open schools. I can think of some benefits for them from this stance, but mostly I think closed schools will hurt them. I can think of three short-term reasons for...
View ArticleThe Wuhan virus has accelerated existing trends
The Wuhan virus has sped up existing processes, such as hastening inevitable deaths, changing the business world, and exposing the left. You’ve probably read that 94% of Wuhan virus deaths happened to...
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