StickWithANose

With the first week of classes under my belt, I’m plugging back in to the intertubes and will [hopefully] resume my normal posting routine. Here’s what I’ve been reading….

Since it has become fashionable for the Faux News crowd to wail about the thuggery of our beleaguered unions, let us take a trip down memory lane to commemorate the Labor Day holiday: Alicublog

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911, in which Bolshevik operatives suicide-bombed first responders with their own bodies by hurling them out of the upper stories of a useful business owned by wealth producers Max Blanck and Isaac Harris. Some of the operatives set themselves on fire before attacking in an attempt to mask their intentions. Blanck’s and Harris’ worker-incentive program of blocking fire exits was blamed for the operatives’ deaths by the liberal media, as the Bolsheviks had planned.

The obstructionism of Republican senators is crippling all manner of government activity… including educational research: EdWeek

The National Board for Education Sciences, the advisory group which supervises the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences, has announced the agenda for its next meeting, Sept. 29. Now it has to hope members will be confirmed in time to show up.

Know Your Audience… Tuttle SVC

Your Audience is Skynet!

Imagine Inc. and the non-profit scam continues… Schools Matter

Is there an entity – not an Imagine-controlled LLC – that holds the charter and has the capacity to divorce itself from Imagine if it chose to do so? Or, is the governing body just an extension of Imagine, a lame-duck body acting on behalf of the company?

Rahmism… The Krug-Man

This theory led to a strategy of playing it safe: never put forward proposals that might fail to pass, avoid highlighting the philosophical differences between the parties. There was never an appreciation of the risks of having policies too weak to do the job.