NEA: Leave the Kids Behind
The National Education Association, perhaps America’s most active liberal political action committee, continues to decry the No Child Left Behind law. The NEA’s chief complaints seem to be
- It costs too much money
- It set the bar too high
- Its timeline is too aggressive
- It encourages teachers to teach children to pass tests
My questions to the NEA are
- How much money would satisfy your insatiable greed?
- What does the law require that students shouldn’t learn?
- Which graduating class should be the first that your teachers teach properly?
- What’s wrong with students passing tests?
The NEA does not concern itself with the quality of eduction in America, but exclusively with a) the quality of life of its members and employees, and b) the perpetual advance of left-wing causes. The sooner the NEA is weeded out of the garden of education, the sooner American students will achieve grades on a par with those in every other industrialized nation.
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Dr. Dean Insider Trader?
ProfessorBainbridge.com reports that the doctor may have an insider trading scandal to deal with. Keeping score, Dean is now a hypocrite on:
- Dean wants the Bush administration to release minutes of meetings with energy executives, but he refuses to release minutes of his meetings with energy executives.
- Dean wants religion divorced from politics, but he wants to talk about what a bang-up Christian he is while campaigning in the South.
- Dean wants Bush to spend more on homeland security, but he refused to spend what was necessary to make his state’s nuclear power plant safe and secure.
- Dean wants Bush to impose draconian rules to prevent stock and mutual fund abuses, but he traded stocks on insider information in 1991.
Before ridiculing the Bush administration, Dr. Dean should consult his own history.
WP on Dean Revisited
Hey, I think I was too quick to judge the Dean on Religion article in the Washington Post. I felt that the reporter, Jim VandeHei, was soft on Dean and failed to analyze or even characterize the veracity of the doctor’s statements on religion. Having re-read the article, I have a new perspective. (Hey, I’ve been celebrating the holidays, and the mind isn’t quite up to full speed.)
VandeHei has done a hatchet job to Dean. The reporter didn’t have to include Dean’s misplacement of the Book of Job. Nor did he have to state, without color or comment, Dean’s church change over a bike path. Nor did he have to put Dean’s statements on religion in the context of Southern strategy. More examples of VendeHei’s subtle inclusion of more information than Dean’s handlers might have wished are available in the article. My favorite paragraph:
A few minutes later, when discussing corporate greed, Dean promised if elected president to call business leaders from around the country into the White House to stress ethics and responsibility. “Moral tone is a huge deal in the presidency,” he told the audience [emphasis mine].
Reading Dean’s quote, “Moral tone is a huge deal,“ elicits pity for the speaker. The sentence is utterly sophomoric, like Holden Caulfield’s paper on the ancient Egyptians. Could anything embarrass Dean more than forcing him to read his own thoughts on moral tone aloud? “Moral tone is a huge deal!“ Indeed.
If my reassessment of the writer’s motive is correct, then I owe Jim VandeHei an apology. This subtle, understated article may harm Dean more than all the vicious attacks combined. The article makes Dr. Dean look bad without the author saying so.
Sperm Counts Off by 1/3
I found this on Drudge. I offer a contrarian explanation, however. Perhaps the feminization of men–mandatorily sitting to urinate in pre-schools, supporting Howard Dean–is reducing the amount of testosterone men produce. I’d like to see a study that measures the sperm count in deficient men before and after a weekend movie marathon of The Godfather I and II, Patton, Braveheart, The Patriot (Mel Gibson’s), and Band of Brothers (all 10 episodes). For kicks, throw in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Animal House, and My Cousin Vinny.
My prediction is that these men will produce an overabundance of sperm for the next three weeks.
Dean and Yankee Power
We know that Dean has a problem with his handling of security and safety failures at Vermont’s only nuclear power plant. Dean’s World has an excellent point.
Combine the Yankee Power/Homeland Security issue with Dr. Dean’s secret energy policy meetings, and you begin to see that money talks with the good doctor, as does he from both sides of his mouth.
Also, have you noticed that the big magazines, Time and Newsweek, are starting to question the Dean phenomenon? While people like me enjoy ripping Dean for any reason, it’s a bad sign when those who should support him begin ripping him. As I predicted, once he became too embarrassing for big name liberals to support, his star will fall. As the economy picks up, the Dems will look to give Bush a whipping boy for November–that would be Howard Dean. As Patton said about the German army,
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