Seeker Blog (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Megan McArdle links to Mickey Kaus discovering some chinks in the Democrats love affair with the teacher’s unions: …So the schools have a gigantic, powerful bargaining bloc. Who doesn’t have a bargaining bloc? The kids. Of course, the customers of corporations don’t bargain with unions either–but they have the right of exit, which is [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Mickey Kaus has written about the apparently increasing openness of Democrats to educational reform that isn't union-approved. Dan Lips of the Heritage Foundation writes in to confirm the trend. When Florida expanded its tax credit for educational donations in May, a third of the party's caucus voted for it. Louisiana's scholarship bill, signed into law by Gov. Jindal in June, was sponsored...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
This is the closest thing to a miracle I’ve seen among the Dems in recent memory. From Andrew J. Coulson : Reporting from the Democratic National Convention two days ago, Salon’s Mickey Kaus was stunned to find a room packed with 500 people cheering as Newark mayor Cory Booker defended school choice. Booker complained of the viciousness of education politics, noting that “he’d been told...
Ron Hebron (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Can you believe it? A glimmer of hope: a few Democrats who prefer the children over the teachers' unions. Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine : Things We Thought We'd Never See: Democrats Rally Against the Teachers' Unions! I went to the Ed Challenge for Change event mainly to schmooze. I almost didn't stay for the panels, being in no mood for what I expected would, even among these reformers,...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Reporting from the Democratic National Convention two days ago, Salon’s Mickey Kaus was stunned to find a room packed with 500 people cheering as Newark mayor Cory Booker defended school choice. Booker complained of the viciousness of education politics, noting that “he’d been told his political career would be over if he kept pushing school choice.” And [...]
BeldarBlog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... a statement from Obama that Biden's best quality is his honesty ? If I may riff on the inestimable Mickey Kaus' joke (one which only makes sense if you already know a fair amount about Biden), Biden's honesty is a defining character trait he acquired as a child in the coal mines of Wales, from which he graduated at the top of his class. As for Slow Joe's own speech: Meh. He didn't...
South Dakota Politics (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Isn't this one of the seven signs of the apocalypse? In connection with Professor Schaff's critic of mandatory pre-school, see Mickey Kaus's report from the Convention. See Slate: Things We Thought We'd Never See: Democrats Rally Against the Teachers' Unions!...
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Revolution from within in Denver?!!! Mickey Kaus reports on the Dem Ed Challenge for change event. Here's an excerpt: One panelist--I think it was Peter Groff, president of the Colorado State Senate, got the ball rolling by complaining that when the children's agenda meets the adult agenda, the "adult agenda wins too often." Then Cory Booker of Newark attacked teachers unions specifically--...
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Obama has picked Biden as his running mate as everybody and their dogs now know. Betsy has some juicy quotes and links around the blogosphere. I especially have enjoyed this one: And then Mickey Kaus reminds us of this prize Biden moment from 1987 when he made five boasts about his academic record. And four of them were totally, provably false. He then went on to say that he ''went to...
Joanne Jacobs (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
You’ve heard talk of change? Mickey Kaus found it at an Ed Challenge for Change event at the Democratic convention: Dems rally against unions! One panelist — I think it was Peter Groff, president of the Colorado State Senate, got the ball rolling by complaining that when the children’s agenda meets the adult agenda, the “adult [...]
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Mickey Kaus points to a 1988 NY Times article by E.J. Dionne on Joe Biden that reads like a transcript from the old “Mr. Show” comedy series, which was a sort of American Monty Python. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross often appeared as characters uncomfortably apologizing for not being totally accurate in their previous statements: The [...]
Anchor Rising (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Mickey Kaus is at the Democratic convention and reports on the Ed Challenge for Change Meeting he attended.I went to the Ed Challenge for Change event mainly to schmooze. I almost didn't stay for the panels, being in no mood...
UNCoRRELATED (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
I'm gasping for breath between laughs. Via Mickey Kaus : BUFFETT: I've seen a lot of class-action suits with less to it than this particular case. The facts are clear. I mean, he solicited money and he wasn't telling the truth to the people he was soliciting it from. QUICK: How--have you had any discussions? I mean, obviously, you talked to a lot of people who are high ranked in the Democratic...
DBKP (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... website. We found it interesting, at a time when Warren Buffet on CNBC This Morning (courtesy Mickey Kaus at Slate ) mused whether Edwards’ contributors should file a class-action suit to get their money back, there’s a whole other “class” of individuals who’ve received their refund. And what an interesting “class” we found: Out of 667 “bundlers” or designated fundraisers, 276 or...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... the appearance of wisdom, as if thirty-six years in the Senate must needs makes a man wise. As Mickey Kaus put it, the Delaware Senator “ doesn’t have gravitas. He has seniority .” Not just that, in his recent presidential campaign, Biden never really caught fire with the Democratic base. He “ wasn’t even the third most successful candidate this year (hi, John Edwards!), or fourth...
