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The Delivery Presents – To the Moon, Listeners!
This week, we lurn how skulls teach reel gud! Also, I let my inner science geek out to play for a while and reveal why I miss my toy rocket.
The Delivery Presents – Two Shows in Once Post? Is This Madness?
Somehow, and I’m completely willing to blame this on a week of events that knocked me completely off-balance for many days, I neglected to post the show notes for Episode 109. Unfortunately, I realized that pretty much right before I sat down to record Episode 110. I decided not to do two separate posts, though, [...]
Sheer Delusion: HHS Launches National “Shut Up and Sit Down” School Campaign
If I had to pick one major difference between conservatives and progressives, it would be that conservatives choose to deal with the world as it is while progressives believe they can alter the unalterable until it matches their view of what the world should be. You will not find a better illustration of this difference [...]
Even if Detroit Had Jobs, No One Could Take Them
I have no idea how any resident of a city who has even a smidgen of pride in themselves and where they live can allow this to happen without staging a revolution. According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are ”functionally illiterate.” The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday.WWJ [...]
Teach Your Children Well. Also, Teach Them Violence, Because That’s Handy
According to the University of Missouri, violence in the answer when it comes to settling labor dispute. At least that’s what the college, which receives tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers, is teaching its students. If you hit that link (or this link or this one), you’ll find a couple videos from two actual [...]
Another Reason to Like the Boehner Budget Deal: DC Kids Win
My what a wonderful little surprise I found this morning! On Friday night, before the details of the final deal became clear, [D.C. Representative Eleanor Holmes] Norton said, “We are in great danger of becoming bargained as we feared, despite my conversation with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a few days ago, and the many [...]
You Know Who the Fleebaggers Are Just Like? Soldiers in Afghanistan.
In a grim future of arrogant hyperbole, this Indiana legislator could well be our Emperor. It takes an overflowing amount of both for him to compare his petulant flight to Illinois to avoid the will of the electorate to soldiers sent to Afghanistan for fight in our stead. But, as you’ll see, he has no [...]
DC Kids Win a Big One Today Thanks to Congress
Slowly, but surely, we’re taking back our schools from the big-money, big-power teachers’ union heads. The House signed off Wednesday on reviving a school voucher program for low-income students in the District of Columbia. The House voted 225-195 Wednesday afternoon to allocate $20 million to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships Program, which stopped accepting new students [...]
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