You’ve likely seen this in the news: a Moroccan armed with an AK-47, a pistol, and a boxcutter on a train crossing from Belgium to France was stopped by vacationing American soldiers, before he could begin shooting. Here’s a link to the New York Times: ” The two American service members who tackled a suspected terrorist on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris rushed him even though he was fully armed, then grabbed him by the neck and beat... Read more
I’ve tried making chicken in the crock-pot (to be more correct, the slow cooker/crockery-cooker) many a time, and my consistent problem is that it comes out dry. Recipes that claim to be good for a “set it and forget it” prep at lunchtime and walk away, produce terribly overcooked chicken, unless I modify the recipe and shorten the cooking time considerably, at which point I might as well make it on the stovetop. At long last, I now have the... Read more
Here’s the context that had me thinking about this: The AP US History battle is not over. Stanley Kurtz at the National Review has been reporting on the changes going on at the College Board, in which they have been creating a new set of learning objectives, and covered content, for the exam, with a decided leftward tilt, which have prompted substantial dissent. Recent reports had been that the College Board had conceded the point, and made the curriculum even-handed,... Read more
If you’ve been following any of the major conservative news sites or blogs (but not the newspapers who have decided there’s nothing newsworthy), or have an equivalent twitter feed, you’ve seen that the Center for Medical Progress has released its latest video, this time not a hidden camera but an interview with a defector, if you will, from StemExpress. It’s dreadful, gruesome — harvesting organs from a child delivered intact and with a beating heart. Here’s a link to... Read more
So I know I’ve said that I’m doubtful about prayers, and what difference they may or may not make. (If I had been diligent about tagging my posts, you could look at those past posts.) I mean, look, if God wants to heal a person, He doesn’t tally up the number of prayers he hears and act only when the right number of people have prayed, or enough people have prayed intently enough, or someone with sufficient holiness has prayed,... Read more
Again from Tough Choices, pp. 145 – 146. Still reading the book, but an interesting passage that seems worth sharing. Again, typed so please pardon any typos. . . . I got a call one evening from Pattie to inform me that I had been chosen as the Most Powerful Woman in Business. I was stunned, excited, and immediately called my mother, who was ecstatic. In that first interview, and for all six years in which I was named the... Read more
(image: Scott Walker, from wikimedia commons, photo by Gage Skidmore) Scott Walker’s released his “repeal and replace” health care plan today. Here’s a link to a National Review article evaluating the plan, and here’s the plan itself. There’s a lot that’s good in it, especially the proposed Medicaid reform, which splits Medicaid up into three entities for the three groups served by the program: medical care for low-income children and adults, medical care for the disabled and low-income seniors, and... Read more
From Tough Choices (FYI: written in 2006, well before HRC’s Hard Choices), chronicling an experience as a rising manager at AT&T in her early 30s. It’s a long excerpt (and from the library copy, not just copy/pasted from an electronic version) but interesting as a tidbit about Fiorina and for its own sake. Our relationship with Italtel [a joint venture partner in Italy] and their parent, STET, had reached an impasse. We were trying to negotiate a change in our... Read more
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here’s the latest from the Chicago Tribune: “Pension boost tactic sidesteps laws to cost taxpayers millions.” The latest [Tribune Watchdog] investigation centers on spiking in the municipal pension system, known by its initials, IMRF. It covers many local government employees in the suburbs and downstate. (Chicago and Cook County have their own pension systems for employees.) And, like the earlier Tribune investigation, the latest one found that local agencies continue to... Read more
Back in May, I wrote about the plan in Illinois to require that all public universities give credit for AP scores of three or higher, to eliminate the variations between universities and exams — that is, for math and science exams in particular, various of the more rigorous schools require that students earn a 4 or even a 5 in order to receive credit and placement in a higher level class, but the legislature planned to remove this discretion and... Read more
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