Not Watching For The Asteroid

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(edited March 12)

Soledad O’Brien and her CNN panel manage to stumble into Contessa Brewer territory in this appearance by attempting to paint Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak as a racist for making a point about Barack Obama’s support for a proponent of “critical race theory” during his days at Harvard Law School. Joel ends up in an argument with a woefully unprepared O’Brien on the theory itself, but the actual facepalm moment goes to one of her panelists, who asks Joel why he’s so afraid of black people:

Hot Air provides the punchline.
Update: Bill Whittle Responds to Soledad O’Brien

The BC Teachers’ Strike

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The public school teachers of British Columbia are not working today, as part of an initial 3-day strike. The Vancouver Sun’s Janet Steffenhagen has published a “Fact vs. Fiction” piece that is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand what this strike is all about. Her blog page is probably the most comprehensive resource on the subject, with new items being added daily.
I have lots of friends who are public school teachers. My heart goes out to them individually. But my head remains resolute that there is only so much money that can be removed from the pockets of the citizenry. So what is a fair wage for a teacher? Is $50K/yr too little? Is $1M/yr too much? Who’s to say what is “fair”?
The bigger question is why so-called “professionals” belong to a union. Other professions, such as engineers, aren’t allowed to belong to a union. Couldn’t many of the current problems be solved by legislation that states that joining the BCTF is optional? Then individual teachers could negotiate individual salaries & benefits just like everyone else in the non-union private sector.
This situation in B.C. seems strangely similar to what happened in Wisconsin last year. Unfortunately, Premier Christy Clark ain’t no Scott Walker!
Correction: It was my understanding that Canadian engineers could not belong to a union. I was misinformed on this point and have deleted the pertinent sentences above.

Breitbart Obama Video Set For Release

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Big Government;

Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”
The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright–about whom we will be releasing significant information in the coming hours.
However, the video has been selectively edited–either by the Boston television station or by Buzzfeed itself. Over the course of the day, Breitbart.com will be releasing additional footage that has been hidden by Obama’s allies in the mainstream media and academia.
Breitbart.com Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro will appear on The Sean Hannity Show to discuss the tape. The full tape will be released tonight on Fox News’ Hannity.

Via Drudge

It’s Probably Nothing

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USA Today;

Known for his grasp of budgetary minutiae, first as a Michigan congressman and then as Reagan’s budget director, Stockman still dazzles with his command of numbers. Ask him about jobs, and he’ll spit out government estimates for non-farm payrolls down to the tenth of a decimal point. Prod him again and, as from a grim pinata, more figures spill out: personal consumption expenditures, credit market debt and the clunky sounding but all-important non-residential fixed investment.
Stockman may seem as exciting as an insurance actuary, but he knows how to tell a good story. And the punch line to this one is gripping. He says the numbers for the U.S. don’t add up to anything but a painful, slow-growing future.

h/t Harry

A Concept So Simple …

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… it took a “study” to figure it out:

“The key problems with current policies for wind power are simple. They require a huge commitment of investment resources to a technology that is not very green, in the sense of saving a lot of CO2, but which is certainly very expensive and inflexible. Unless the current Government scales back its commitment to wind power very substantially, its policy will be worse than a mistake, it will be a blunder,” Professor Hughes said.

What’s the Difference Between Socialists and Communists?

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In a fascinating new column, George Jonas, provides a recent history of examples of socialism & communism in Europe. He ponders what the actual difference is between these two groups. Not much, it seems, other than that socialists offer a short window of opportunity for citizens to voluntarily comply with the same imposed measures.

Some say Europe is in trouble because the poor want to live as well as the rich. Close, but no cigar. If Europe’s in trouble, it isn’t because the poor want to live as well as the rich, but because some do. They live as well as the rich without having bothered to become rich first.
A bad idea is for poor people to live as well as the rich while they’re still poor. Even living half as well is a bad idea unless they are, in fact, half as rich. It’s bad because it can’t be done. At least, it can be done only until somebody presents the bill, which is currently happening in Europe.

Iran and Obama – He may be leaving it too late.

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Thomas Sowell;

“Those who buy time in the name of expediency seldom get peace in the bargain.”
What are we to make of President Barack Obama’s latest pronouncements about Iran’s movement toward nuclear bombs? His tough talk might have had some influence on Iran a couple of years ago, when he was instead being kinder and gentler with the world’s leading terrorist-sponsoring nation. Now his tough talk may only influence this year’s election — which may be enough for Obama.

An Inconvenient Number

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Everybody and his dog knows by now that if you ask millions of Conservative-hating Canadians if they seen somethin’ in the woodshed during the run-up to last year’s federal election, they’re going to respond in the affirmative by the tens of thousands. But there’s another far more important number that hasn’t been released, or at least, a number that certainly hasn’t been widely reported, if it’s been reported at all, a number that the reporters at the CBC and other anti-Conservative media could surely use their investigative smarts to come up with: precisely how many complaints did Elections Canada receive in the days immediately following the last federal election – as opposed to nine months later, after ample prompting – from voters who said they didn’t get to cast their ballot because they’d been directed to the wrong polling station?
Surely Elections Canada keeps a records of such things, and would be happy to release the number – heck, you’d think they have a duty to release the number.
Bet it’s a really interesting number.

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