COMMON CORE: Orwellian new government education standards. All the education you serfs need to know....

I was once in favor of a common 'core' curriculum. That was until I found out who was developing it.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA reports on the Obama inauguration.

FEDERAL GUN POLICIES you may never have heard of.

PAUL GREENBERG: In His Own Words. Some thoughts about eternal values.

FAT TAXES may kill you.

WHAT MAKES MASS MURDERERS TICK? It's not as obvious as we may have thought.

I AGREE with his argument except that social engineering is most emphatically not engineering.

OBAMA'S INAUGURATION SPEECH:

He included the invocation of the military as an example for us to follow when resolving our political differences. He cast as heartless villains anyone who wanted to reform any of our welfare-state programs. He did at least acknowledge that we must reduce our deficits, but in the same breath expressed an absolute refusal to do anything but raise taxes to solve the problem.

The best we can hope for is 4 more years of gridlock.

A LESSON IN BIG GOVERNMENT: Government scientist gets fired for telling the (politically incorrect) truth.

LAUNDRY CAT:



There's more here.

PEGGY NOONAN: No one has good faith but Obama.

PENNSYLVANIA GIRL, 5, suspended for threatening to shoot schoolmate with pink toy gun that blows soapy bubbles.

Disciplinary action is required, but not against the little girl. The school administration, principal, and teachers involved should be canned immediately, their teaching certificates lifted, and they should never be allowed on a school campus again.

FORGET THE GUN CULTURE. What about the fatherless culture? "Dads, by getting up and going to work each day, send a powerful message every day to their children: Hard work wins. There are no short cuts. The outcome is unknowable. But the effort is entirely within your control."

NO MORE boring home improvement projects: the DeWalt AR-15 nail gun.

Yes, it's a fake (nail gun).

WHY ARE AMERICANS WORKING LESS? "While there are a number of factors, the phenomenon is due mainly to a variety of public policies that have reduced the incentives to be employed: food stamps; Social Security disability; unemployment insurance.... As the burden of government spending increases, this creates an ever-growing incentive for more and more people to figure out ways of riding in the wagon while simultaneously imposing higher and higher costs on those pulling the wagon."

REACTION ENGINES: An interesting video, but there is no 'there' there.

STEVE CHAPMAN: Gun Control's Potemkin Village.