Search Results for: free lunch
March 31, 2017 — Steven Hayward
Two terrific articles to bring to your attention today, and then an event announcement/invitation for East Bay Power Line readers. First up is Robert Boyers, a professor of English at Skidmore College and editor of Salmagundi, a literary journal not widely known beyond the halls of academe, writing this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education about “The Academy’s Assault on Intellectual Diversity.” Very much worth reading the whole thing,
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April 21, 2016 — Steven Hayward
After years of complaining that America’s paper money featured only dead white guys, a lot of folks on the Left are in a snit that Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the twenty-dollar bill. You can practically hear them: “We didn’t mean a gun-toting, Bible-believing Republican black woman! We meant Angela Davis!” Take in someone who goes by the name “Feminista Jones” (described as
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August 22, 2012 — John Hinderaker
One of the high points of Mitt Romney’s primary campaign was when he answered a Democratic voter who said: “So you’re all for like, ‘yay, freedom,’ and all this stuff. And ‘yay, like pursuit of happiness.’ You know what would make me happy? Free birth control.” Romney’s answer, which we posted in video form here, included: “You want free stuff? Vote for the other guy.” The new Romney ad that
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April 19, 2012 — Scott Johnson
With our friends at the Center of the American Experiment we are co-sponsoring the appearance of National Review senior editor Jay Nordlinger for a lunch presentation on his new book, Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World. Jay will be appearing at the downtown Minneapolis Hilton at 1001 Marquette Avenue South tomorrow at noon. The Center’s Web page
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January 26, 2007 — Paul Mirengoff
The confirmation of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was a nice victory for the Bush administration and the conservative cause. More generally, the confirmation of opponents of an imperial judicary to positions on courts of appeals and, of course, the U.S. Supreme Court represents an important triumph. However, there was no triumphalism in Judge Brown’s luncheon address to the Washington, D.C. chapter
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August 23, 2006 — Scott Johnson
The John Locke Foundation of North Carolina is sponsoring Carolina FreedomNet 2006 on Saturday, Octbober 7 in Greensboro at the Sheraton Greensboro. Carolina FreedomNet 2006 is a half-day conference on political blogs and is open to all. It features two panels including Lorie Byrd, Sister Toldjah, Bob Owens, rising star Mary Katharine Ham, Scott Elliott Josh Manchester, Sam Hieb, and Jeff Taylor. Please see the linked program page for a
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January 30, 2004 — Scott Johnson
Earlier this month we noted Theodore Dalrymple’s discussion of the German cannibal who killed and ate a man who had asked to be killed and eaten. We wrote about it under the heading “The case for cannibalism.” The defendant raised a variety of defenses based on the victim’s consent to serve as grist for the cannibal’s mill. Today’s Telegraph reports: “Cannibal not guilty of murder.” Dalrymple challenged readers to formulate
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May 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Alpha News editor Anthony Gockowski has compiled this list of the Democrats’ “accomplishments” in the legislative session that concluded earlier this week. Anthony introduces the list with the observation that “Democrats returned to St. Paul in January with a $17.5 billion surplus and total control of state government, which hinges on their one-seat majority in the Senate that was decided by just a few hundred votes.” In just 120 legislative
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April 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz means to get in on the gun control action with bills incorporating “extended background checks” and “red flag” provisions. Democrats control the political branches. What’s the problem? In the video below Walz aims his fire at Republicans in the Minnesota Senate, where Democrats hold a one-vote advantage. Some translation is required here. I take it from Walz’s rant that one or two Democrats haven’t yet fallen
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March 14, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Jack Prelutsky has a good poem titled “A wolf is at the laundromat.” Attending yesterday’s press conference on the charges brought against ten new defendants in Minnesota’s massive Feeding Our Future fraud, I thought “a thief is at the laundromat.” United States Attorney Andrew Luger held the press conference to announce the unsealing of charges against 10 new defendants in Minnesota’s very own massive Feeding Our Future fraud late yesterday
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September 27, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Talk to someone who has run a legitimate free lunch program funded by the United States Department of Agriculture as administered by the Minnesota Department of Education. You will learn that it isn’t a way to wealth and riches without fraud on a massive scale. Feeding Our Future gave us fraud on a massive scale. It was open, obvious, blatant, and gross. Aimmee Bock fronted the scheme and recruited a
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July 5, 2022 — Scott Johnson
A huge Somali audience booed Ilhan Omar when she took the stage at Suldaan Seeraar’s Target Center concert in downtown Minneapolis this past Saturday evening. She was unable to get in a word edgewise. What gives? Surely there is an interesting story there. We posted the video here first thing Sunday morning. The video went viral on Twitter. We followed up here in the post reporting that Omar left town
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June 17, 2022 — Scott Johnson
Ammo Grrrll celebrates THE UNDERRATED PARENT: YAY, DADS!!! Sunday is Father’s Day. Wishing in advance every Daddy a beautiful day of gifts and good food and a toast to a job well done. God Bless you every one. I am hardly the first to notice the importance of Daddies, but I will go so far as to say that the very future of America depends on a renewed interest in
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May 6, 2022 — Scott Johnson
We have followed what I call Minnesota massive free lunch fraud. At Center of the American Experiment Bill Glahn has added to the story with his own analysis. Most recently, Bill took a look back at what we have learned to date in “Feeding frenzy.” On Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m. Central Alpha News will post a five-minute video on Minnesota’s big-bucks free lunch fraud. I saw the video at
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March 4, 2021 — Steven Hayward
We’ve seen liberal grandees like Larry Summers warning that the Democrats’ stimulus plans are too big and risk inflation and other economic troubles down the road. Now add to that chorus the warning of Steven Pearlstein, the Washington Post‘s long time business and economics columnist who generally leans left. Pearlstein is retiring from the Post, and his last column sounds a striking warning that Biden and crew are sure to ignore:
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December 8, 2020 — Steven Hayward
The hottest thing among leftist political economists is “Modern Monetary Theory” (MMT), which holds that a sovereign government can borrow and spend all the money it wants because it can’t actually default on its own currency. This warmed-over Keynesianism wouldn’t get anywhere except in a time of unusually low interest rates and very low inflation. One of the leading advocates of MMT is Stephanie Kelton of Stony Brook University, the
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November 13, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Josef Stalin famously said that one death is a tragedy, while a million deaths are a statistic. The same holds true for spending: most people’s eyes glaze over at the thought of a billion dollars, but we get outraged over the idea of a $400 hammer. The $400 hammer won one of Senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece awards, decades ago. Proxmire did a more effective job than just about anyone
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