If you’re a conservative voter you probably base your electoral decisions on facts & logic. To begin to understand the mindset that the Republican Presidential candidate will be up against in November click on the “Continue Reading” link below. One wonders if the founders of the country ever thought things would devolve to such a banal, unintellectual mentality?!

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A most interesting article has just been published in City Journal. It describes in detail, with example after example, how Governor Scott Walker’s changes are making things better, not worse. Quite a contrast from the dire predictions made by the public sector unions and their sympathizers.

The unions’ battle against Walker’s reforms has rested on the argument that the changes would damage public services beyond repair. The truth, however, is that the reforms not only are saving money already; they’re doing so with little disruption to services.
At the outset of the public-union standoff, educators had made dire predictions that Walker’s reforms would force schools to fire teachers. In February, to take one example, Madison School District Superintendent Dan Nerad predicted that 289 teachers in his district would be laid off. Walker insisted that his reforms were actually a job-retention program: by accepting small concessions in health and pension benefits, he argued, school districts would be able to spare hundreds of teachers’ jobs. The argument proved sound. So far, Nerad’s district has laid off no teachers at all, a pattern that has held in many of the state’s other large school districts. No teachers were laid off in Beloit and LaCrosse; Eau Claire saw a reduction of two teachers, while Racine and Wausau each laid off one. The Wauwatosa School District, which faced a $6.5 million shortfall, anticipated slashing 100 jobs—yet the new pension and health contributions saved them all.

h/t Matt from Mississauga

Here’s the speech John Stossel wishes would have been given last night.
Related: A State of Denial (or simply a speech given by a huckster who has zero respect for those he’s speaking to?)

There’s even an online petition against Lego!
Here’s more from Adler’s radio show.
h/t Matt from Mississauga

Kelly McParland eviscerates the Idiotic Left in this hilarious column.

Lorne Gunter skewers the phoney reports coming out of left-wing advocacy groups about massive cuts to the Federal Government’s workforce. He only wishes what they were saying was true!

Each of the more than 450,000 federal civil servants costs taxpayers an average of $92,000 annually for salaries, benefits and pension contributions, according to James Lahey, a former senior bureaucrat who has done the most comprehensive studies yet into civil service pay and benefits. The cost of a federal civil servant is nearly $20,000 a year more than the cost of an average private-sector worker.

Related: A new report from the Centre for Policy Hysteria

The Radical Left’s latest Racist Poster Boy is none other than Tim Thomas, goaltender of the Boston Bruins. Why? Because he refused to go to the White House today.
Here’s the statement that Thomas released:

“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People. This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers [ sic ] vision for the Federal government. Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.”

h/t ‘Snagglepuss’
Some of the comments at the Bruins Blog are priceless:

Way to put your own confused political leanings in the way of your team, your town, your fans…
You assume Thomas’s absence is a political statement, but for all we know, he may have had a roll with the first lady and felt the situation would have been socially awkward.
Typical knee-jerk liberals didn’t say a word when Theo skipped a Bush invite. Hypocrites.
First off, not so bad that you dissed the President of the United States, but this is a slap in the face to all the Boston Bruins fans. In case he hasn’t noticed, Massachusetts is a Democratic State. Why would Thomas take this stand. Doesn’t he know that Curt Schilling pretty much got run out of town for backing and working to get George W Bush elected?
Besides that, Red Sox management exercised their rights under his contract to put a stop to his foray into politics right quick. I respect most people for their political beliefs, but Glen Beck? I could see Ronald Regan, John F Buckley, Dwight D Eisenhour, but Glen Beck? The guy is a Nazi for god sake! My guess is that the Boston Fans will let their feelings known at the next home game.

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Dec 12, 2011 : The all white, all non-Muslim Editorial Board of the Toronto Star condemns Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney for his decision to ban veils during the citizenship ceremony.
Jan 23, 2012 : Canadian Muslim women salute Jason Kenney for his ‘courageous’ move to ban people covering their faces during the citizenship ceremony.
h/t Dave