The Dismal Science – (Part 1 of 3): Michele Bachmann on Jobs and the Economy.

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  August 22nd at 06:30 PM  | 

James MacDonald of ForeignPolicy.com describes the current Seldon Crisis occurring in Western economies as the end of a seven decade experiment. This seven decade experiment is described by Walter Russell Mead as The Blue Social Model. He talks us through its particulars below. Graduate from high school and you were pretty much guaranteed lifetime employment in a job that gave you a comfortable lower middle | Read More »

Government Class At Atlanta Public Schools

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  July 8th at 11:30 AM  | 

The teacher corps of Atlanta’s public schools recently did terrible things. The schools elected to pursue a policy of directed, managed and administratively enforced dishonesty with regards to nationally mandated standardized testing. They did this in response to the fundamental cupidity and evilness of Atlanta’s School Superintendent Beverly Hall. Yet the perverse incentives, mandated by the No Child Left Behind Law, fueled Beverly Hill’s career | Read More »