Another great moment in local government.
Another great moment in local government.
The article also includes some links a entire collection of great moments, all sadly hilarious.
Tag: freedom
The Federal Trade Commission goes after piano teachers.
We’re here to help you: The Federal Trade Commission goes after piano teachers.
[T]he MTNA has existed since 1876 solely to advance the cause of music study and support music teachers. The 501(c)(3) has about 22,000 members, nearly 90% of them piano teachers, including many women who earn a modest living giving lessons in their homes. The group promotes music study and competitions and helps train teachers. Not exactly U.S. Steel.
The association’s sin, according to the feds, rested in its code of ethics. The code lays out ideals for members to follow—a commitment to students, colleagues, society. Tucked into this worthy document was a provision calling on teachers to respect their colleagues’ studios, and not actively recruit students from other teachers.
Such evil. Thank god we have Washington bureaucrats around to stamp it out!
Scott Walker’s epic battle to beat the unions in Wisconsin.
Scott Walker’s epic battle to beat the unions in Wisconsin.
When they and Democratic legislators failed to prevent passage of Act 10 [the law that defanged the unions], they tried to defeat — with a scurrilous smear campaign that backfired — an elected state Supreme Court justice. They hoped that changing the court’s composition would get Walker’s reforms overturned. When this failed, they tried to capture the state Senate by recalling six Republican senators. When this failed, they tried to recall Walker. On the night that failed — he won with a larger margin than he had received when elected 19 months earlier — he resisted the temptation to proclaim, “This is what democracy looks like!”
Read it. It describes the way our country can defeat the fascists.
Faced with an almost certain recall over her gun control votes, a third Colorado state legislator has resigned.
Pushback: Faced with an almost certain recall over her gun control votes, a third Colorado state legislator has resigned.
By resigning she allows the Democratic governor to appoint a Democratic replacement, thereby keeping control of the state legislature in Democratic hands. Had she been recalled the voters would have had the option to vote for a Republican replacement, as happened with the first two legislators who were recalled.
“The entry of SpaceX into the commercial market is a game changer. It’s going to really shake the industry to its roots.”
As said by the chief technology officer of one of the world’s largest satellite communications company, in reference to today’s scheduled 5:37 pm (Eastern) launch of Falcon 9’s first geosynchronous satellite payload. As this man and Elon Musk also added,
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The Washington Times and the journalist whose confidential files were taken illegally during a house search on an unrelated matter are suing Homeland Security.
The Washington Times and the journalist whose confidential files were taken illegally during a house search on an unrelated matter are suing Homeland Security.
The suit is also demanding that they be allowed depose the Homeland Security agent “who attended the raid and was involved in collecting the reporter’s materials to determine how widely information from the newspaper’s documents was distributed within the government.” That agent appeared to be on a fishing expedition to get these files, containing the names of several Homeland whistle-blowers, and then pass that information along to higher-ups in the agency.
An update on the arrest of a father for wanting to pick up his kids and walk them home from school.
An update on the arrest of a father for wanting to pick up his kids and walk them home from school.
Key quote from the boss of the thuggish police officer, Avery Aytes, who made the arrest:
Aytes’s boss, Cumberland County Sheriff Butch Burgess is described as saying he “hasn’t seen the video and doesn’t need to, because it won’t tell the whole story. He says Aytes was just doing his job.”
One point I didn’t make yesterday about his story. Exactly what crime was the father committing that justified his arrest? If you watch the video, all he was doing was expressing his disagreement with the school’s policy. And he was doing it quite calmly. Since when is that a crime?
A father is arrested merely because he wants to pick up his kids from school and walk home with them.
Thugs: A father is arrested merely because he wants to pick up his kids from school and walk home with them.
Watch the video below the fold. It ends with the police officer physically hitting the person with the camera.
I can think of no sane reason why a school would not release this man’s children to him. What difference does it make whether he leaves on foot or in a car?
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The top ten race baiters of 2013.
The Census Bureau apparently faked the unemployment numbers prior to the 2012 election to make it appear more people were employed.
Working for the Democratic Party: The Census Bureau apparently faked the unemployment numbers prior to the 2012 election to make it appear more people were employed.
In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.
And the Census Bureau, which does the unemployment survey, knew it. Just two years before the presidential election, the Census Bureau had caught an employee fabricating data that went into the unemployment report, which is one of the most closely watched measures of the economy. And a knowledgeable source says the deception went beyond that one employee — that it escalated at the time President Obama was seeking reelection in 2012 and continues today.
The world of English freedoms.
The world of English freedoms.
Read it. Daniel Hannan outlines exactly why freedom has prospered first in English-speaking nations.
Sixteen different foreigners describe things they couldn’t believe about America until they moved here.
Sixteen different foreigners describe things they couldn’t believe about America until they moved here.
Almost all the reactions are positive, and practically all the items named exist because of freedom.