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  • K-12: Dear Abby, Here Are The Two Big Reasons Why Kids Lack Motivation

    11/10/2018 4:25:35 PM PST · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 32 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | July 29, 2018 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    A mother in Chicago wrote for help: “Dear Abby: All of my grown children are underachievers. When contemporaries talk about their children getting jobs, getting married, having kids, going on vacation, buying a house/car, I have nothing to contribute. My children do not have lives; they work low-paying jobs and scrape by. Worse, they have no ambition to do better.” Dear Abby responded with little insight: “Your children are adults. If they were motivated, they would be doing more with their lives than scraping by. Be glad they are independent and have good relationships with each other—it’s a plus, and...
  • Questionable 'Race for the White House' Death Stare Reenactment

    03/28/2016 6:39:21 PM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 1 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | March 28, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick
    Reenactment: to repeat the actions of an earlier event or incident ---Merriam-Webster Dictionary. If looks could kill, Thomas Dewey might have been dead before he could have been nominated for president in 1948. At least according to a supposed reenactment on last night's episode of Race for the White House about the 1948 Truman vs Dewey presidential race.The reenactment portrayed Senator Robert Taft walking by Dewey and giving him a death stare before he continued on. You can see Taft's deadly glare at the 11:00 mark of the video below. The problem is for there to be an accurate reenactment there...
  • Walt Disney’s Fascinating Political Journey (From Naive Socialist to Staunch Conservative)

    05/27/2013 8:00:19 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Pajamas Media ^ | 05/27/2013 | CHRIS QUEEN
    Walt & Lillian Disney with Richard Nixon and his family at Disneyland, 1959 We tend to think of Hollywood as a bastion of leftism, and rightly so. Books like Ron Radosh’s Red Star Over Hollywood demonstrate the deep-seated left-wing dominance of the entertainment industry. Even with the leftism prevalent in Hollywood’s Golden Age, many unabashed conservatives found success without compromising their principles, including one of the most creative minds in the business — Walt Disney.Several biographers and writers that I’ve read have tried to declare that Walt Disney was apolitical, but I find this conclusion not to be true....
  • Who in God’s Name Is Mitt Romney?

    01/30/2012 12:04:40 AM PST · by Jim Robinson · 27 replies
    NY Mag ^ | Jan 29, 2012 | By Frank Rich
    ~~big snip to bottom line~~ To escape the twin taints of Bain and his one-percenter’s under–15 percent tax rate, some Republican elders are urging Romney to “stake his campaign on something larger and far more important than his own business expertise” (The Wall Street Journal editorial page) or, as Fred Barnes suggested more baldly, to find “a bigger idea to deflect attention from Bain.” But even Mitt’s own spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, once described him (to the Des Moines Register) as “not a very notional leader.” Romney is incapable of an arresting turn of phrase, let alone a fresh idea. Running...
  • Frank Rich: In Praise of Extremism

    09/26/2011 8:30:05 PM PDT · by Borough Park · 12 replies
    New York Magazine ^ | Frank Rich
    -snip- In a best-case scenario for him, the GOP will spurn Perry for Romney. It’s a given in Washington, of course, that Romney is the tougher opponent for Obama because he appeals to “moderate” and “independent” voters. The Beltway hands making this case are usually the same suspects who caution Obama to stick to the “vital center.” As Michael Gerson, the Bush 43 speechwriter turned columnist, put it last week, Romney is the GOP’s “safe choice” because he represents the “reassuring center.” Gerson argues that Romney’s “prospects are better than his current polling” and likens him to Thomas Dewey without...