Archive for the ‘Mind’ Category
About Obama’s September 8th Ground Breaking Speech….To The Children
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Some thoughts on President Obama’s teachable moment [more at Bookworm and Michelle Malkin]:
The best predictor of human behavior is past behavior.
Obama will be:
1. Glib
2. Boring
3. Professorish
He will say:
4. One or two outrageous things
5. Mixed in with bland banalities
Teachers will dutifully talk about the glories of diversity. The wonderfulness of the president. The hopefulness of his plans.
Children will want to “help the President” and be “good stewards” and “save electricity” and “save the children” and “study hard”. Well, the last one not-so-much.
The message won’t matter. The fact that the President is speaking to them, unfiltered, with no parent is what I object to.
And I live in the most conservative of conservative school districts. Many teachers don’t even know when they are passing bullshit pap along.
My kids came home from school worried about global warming and the world ending.
Our mind numb society didn’t happen in a vacuum.
Anyway, not everyone agrees with my take–they want to give the President the benefit of the doubt. But I can only predict his future actions on past performances. He has done very well at gracefully talking around a controversial subject and making all who hear it believe he’s agreeing with their take.
Children want to believe authorities. They DO believe authorities. Depending on the child’s developmental level, he cannot discern that a President would mislead. Heck, many adults have been baffled by Obama’s b.s. They are shocked, shocked! I tell you, at how President Obama has presided.
But let’s assume the substance is benign. I still don’t like it. The President being beamed directly to children is unprecedented. It has never happened and for good reason. The authority in a child’s life is his parent. A teacher has a teaching role but it is subservient to the parent.
When I think of leaders going around parents to talk to children, I think of Elian Gonzalez. Over at TheRealCuba blog here’s what it says:
Poor Elian!
For the last six years, after he was forced to return to Cuba to become another slave, Elian Gonzalez had to celebrate his birthday with his real father, Fidel Castro. But now, the Cuban dictator is half dead and unable to attend his young slave’s birthday party.
However, that doesn’t mean that Elian would be able to celebrate his birthday as a normal child. Not in Castro’s Cuba!Elian, who today became a teenager, still had to “celebrate” his birthday party in the presence of two “viejos cagalitrosos,” the new dictator-in-chief and Ricardo “Watermellon Head” Alarcon.
Can you imagine? A teenager having to salute these two sinister characters on his birthday, after having been forced to do the same with Cuba’s mass murderer for the last six years?
Poor Elian! I wonder if Janet Reno remembered to send him a birthday card.
I don’t want an entire generation of Americans getting a universal message from ANY leader or politician. I want a generation of children to be inspired by big dreams–like going to the moon or exploring Mars. A free country can do big things. A free country, lead by a visionary, can demonstrate greatness. The leader doesn’t have to use empty words.
Let President Obama’s personal example of education, hard work and achievement speak for themselves. It is enough…and it’s very American.
Why Preventative Care Won’t Save Money
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009My practice consists of people who want to stay healthy and those recovering from some malady–often of the structural kind, but sometimes of the sub-clinical but bothersome kind. That means, people coming to my office hope to get back to doing what they want or make it so they’re always healthy.
These people are highly motivated. Since my practice is 90% cash, the patients seek out my services, value them so highly that they’ll pay money for them, and they will often be compliant. We have tough talks in my office. I have had this conversation many times:
Me: Here is what we need to do, but it will require a change of behavior on your part, a whole new lifestyle.
Patient: Okay…..
Me: If you are not interested in making these changes, you will not get the health benefits you desire. I do not want to waste your money and my time if you’re not ready for these changes.
Patient: Okay….
Me: How do you feel about (significant change in diet, new exercise regimen, changing sleep habits, changing exercise, at home rehab options, etc.)?
Patient: Well, I…..
And then, the patient thinks about it and decides. Even with paying for care and being self-selected to come into my office, only about 50% are willing to do the changes they need. Some don’t come back until they are ready. Some decide on symptomatic care and admit they don’t really want to change. I had one patient tell me, “I’d rather die than stop drinking Coke.” He was an alcoholic and diabetic. That’s good information to have–I can give him nutrition to supplement his horrendous lifestyle choices, but just the preventative care alone is not going to significantly help him if he won’t help himself. He will be in the hospital, eventually, and have a limb amputated or go into a diabetic coma. Those will be huge expenses.
So, while my practice centers on people taking control of their health and it’s profoundly satisfying because people are self-motivated, this is not the majority of American health care consumers. From the Washington Post:
Using data from long-standing clinical trials, researchers projected the cost of caring for people with Type 2 diabetes as they progress from diagnosis to various complications and death. Enrolling federally-insured patients in a simple but aggressive program to control the disease would cost the government $1,024 per person per year — money that largely would be recovered after 25 years through lower spending on dialysis, kidney transplants, amputations and other forms of treatment, the study found.
However, except for the youngest diabetics, the additional services would add to overall health spending, not decrease it, the study shows.
As an aside, I strongly question the $1,000 price tag for diabetes education and prevention. That seems awfully low. Since one doctor’s office visit alone is around $100, I wonder what else is being covered here. Are meds included? Counseling? What?
Most people, if given a choice, will go to the doctor and want to be “fixed”. That is, they’ll want a drug or surgery that enables them to continue on their path without having to change their behavior. Should socialized medicine come to America, that impulse will be reinforced. Health care costs will soar.
Preventative care only works when a patient is motivated, and even then, it’s challenging. Those under Government Run health care will have less incentive, not more, to take control of their health care.
Do I think that preventative care saves money for my patients? Absolutely. A healthy person over his lifetime, will likely need less health care intervention. Since nearly 90% of chronic disease is preventable, steps to prevent them make a huge difference. A person who never develops heart disease or diabetes or employs dietary ways to prevent cancers makes for a very nice health care cost risk long-term.
In my own life, the life insurance guy was shocked: I have low blood pressure, low cholesterol, I’m on no meds, I’ve had no surgeries. And, yes, I’m overweight, but that doesn’t mean, necessarily, unhealthy. My own grandma who is 92, has spent a lifetime of living preventatively. She is the picture of health–mentally and physically. Prevention does matter. But the individual must be motivated and must take the steps himself to be healthy.
No government can force an individual to have motivation. But they can force behavior…and that’s what they’ll try to do, eventually. In that case, the cure is worse than the disease.
Self Will Vs. Social Will
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009How much of our behavior is determined by external expectations? How much of our behavior is driven by free will? How much of our future is destiny?
It seems that one day can turn into a week which turns into a year which turns into a life and before a person wakes up, time has passed and a person is down a road he never thought he wanted to travel. The Anchoress wrote a post around this video by Ellen DeGeneres. It’s insightful and I’ve had it on my mind ever since:
The Anchoress says (the whole post is a gem):
And too, I think she spoke a great deal of plain truth. Polonius advised his son, “to thy own self be true” but Degeneres spells out the loss and pain that can come from doing exactly that. The truth – the whole truth – is one part courage, one part discipline and two parts sacrifice; the great paradox of life is that one must be willing to sacrifice one’s very self in order to wholly own who one is. Rather like the gospel admonition: “who would lose his life will save it.”
There comes a moment in all of our lives when we get a sense of what we are born for. Degeneres got it when she wrote that letter to God. Whether she realized it or not, she had a blessing at that moment; a revelation. In her exquisite pain she wrote the whole, honest truth; she revealed herself or, in another sense, gave herself up. And in response she got the truth back at her, an answer, in the form of a “showing” (or a knowing if you will) of what her life would be.
I’ve heard many people talk about the crystalline moment when they suddenly “knew” something or “envisioned” something in their lives and it turned out precisely as it was seen or known. In fact, something very similar happened in my life, when I -also in a moment of huge pain and confusion- spoke to God from the depths of my heart, and rose to my feet knowing with certainty that my life had a plan and a purpose; that plan and purpose began unfolding within hours, and continues to unfold, instruct and reveal itself to me.
To repeat: “the great paradox of life is that one must be willing to sacrifice one’s very self in order to wholly own who one is.” Yes. That is life.
An intentioned life means pruning out producing branches and discarding them so that other branches can produce more. Pruning causes pain, but also growth. So the tree of life is sort of a bonsai tree and can end up being fairly odd-shaped.
Or life can be an unpruned bush, producing little, no shape, no special quality, unrecognizable, anonymous and filler on the world’s landscape.
And how much of an individual’s shape is constrained and/or recognized by others? That is, some people look anonymous except to those who see beauty where others see the banal. And, like the physicist who changes the properties of the experiment he studies, the love of the admirer changes the quality of previously unremarkable individual.
There is individual influence and then there are social influences–the nuns in grade school, the Fraternity at college, the self-selected trade group, the work culture, the movies, Twitter. Each group exerts a pressure to bend and shape and most people seem to underestimate the power of the systems they’re a part of to manipulate their life.
Shaming works, of course, but there are subtler ways to shape a person. Messages are filtered and framed and people accept the messages because it is a lot of work to question every single one and ferret out the truth.
That is why, in the end of the day, people must be intentional. A person who wants to die somewhat satisfied should take time out and consider his ways. A person must seek the truth and attempt to live it. One person’s path is not another person’s path and if it’s the right path for him, it will be narrow. Choices must be made. Well, choices are made, whether conscious or not. At least with intentional choices, they result in fewer regrets.
Perhaps the most challenging part of a well-lived life comes from being awake and choosing. It causes pain and by necessity, loss. There is also this paradox: a person must surrender to purpose in order to be free.
All of this involves pain–the excruciating, dull achy bone-crushing kind. Truth is not easy, but once it’s recognized and chosen, a unique life takes shape.
The Name Rule
Friday, August 21st, 2009Robert Stacy McCain wrote a slice of genius the other day. He writes of names and relationships and psychology:
All Girls Named Tonya, the title of that childhood memoir no publisher will ever pay me to write, derives from a principle of human psychology first postulated by a genuinely evil little bastard who became one of my dope buddies in 10th grade. That title is 67% of what I call Art Hembree’s Law:
All Girls Named Tonya Are Sluts.
If your name is Tonya, I apologize on my old friend’s behalf, but as a lowlife trying to score some easy action circa 1978-86, I can testify that Hembree’s Law proved amazingly reliable.
Well, he swapped momentary, if unfulfilled pleasure with Tonya, for a lost lifetime of love with Amy, but I say he got lucky.
If all girls named Tonya are sluts, then all girls named Amy are mean gossips. Now, I’ve lived long enough that the rules have had too many exceptions to be valid, but I’m still suspicious when I meet an Amy. She has a threshold of niceness that she must scale that Anns (they’re smart) just don’t have to.
Don’t forget Susans. To a person, they’ve all been smug, self-righteous smarty-pants. Is there a Susan who is a C-student? I don’t think so. Is there a Susan who isn’t a competitive-better-than-you ball of high achievement? Haven’t met her yet.
My sister says all Melinda’s are fat. That’s not true.
I like John’s. They are unoffensive.
Have to be careful with Michael’s. They can go either way–mean or nice. They are usually smart.
Do names determine behavior? I wonder.
I know a Chiropractor named Dr. Bone. I know a Proctologist named Dr. Butts. No, I don’t know a Gynecologist named Dr. Vagina, but you get the idea.
Anyway, Stacy needs to let it go. He dodged a name bullet. I hope his wife’s name isn’t Amy.
10 Books Every Young Man Should Read Before His 18th Birthday: UPDATED
Friday, August 7th, 2009Question: Name 10 books every young man should read before his 18th birthday.
Posted by President_Friedman
Here’s the deal. There are so many books that could be read. I decided to include children’s books and kinda “grow up” through them. The Bible should be read to a child, there are great childrens’ versions, from the beginning. The stories all tell a moral and form the groundwork for any other stories both from a moral sense and a literary sense. There are archetypes in the stories that recur again and again. The Bible is a life-long must. [Note: I prefer to read the Bible in the Old King James. First, it makes other older English writings easier to understand. Second, the vocabulary is rich and lyrical.]
As a child ages, more complexity enters the stories. Not every story has a happy ending. Also, note that some of the books are non-fiction. Frankl’s book is a must-read. A young man tends to be petulant and put-upon. Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust and found the keys to survival and mental health. It is a perspective-inducing book.
You’ll note that there aren’t just ten. Too few, for me. And I could have easily made the list 25.
UPDATED:
A reader asked if I’d pick the same books for girls. The strange answer? Yes. But I’m not a typical girl. When younger, I also read all the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series. My sister loved Little Women and the Laura Ingells books. Anne of Green Gables is good for female protagonist. Also Jane Austen. Period. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, etc. Excellent.
Aesops Fables are a given. My kids LOVED these.
The recommendation to just get kids reading is wise. I make my kids read a section of something and write a report on it nearly every day during the summer. They love reading.
The Federalist Papers I considered including, but I also was thinking of compelling reading that taught while telling a story. I put The Prince in the strange category of important reads but would mean more to someone with more life experience.
Brave New World should be read opposite 1984 and compared and contrasted, in my opinion.
Martin, I too, read the encyclopedia when I was bored and bought an old set for that purpose with my kids. (Ditto medical encyclopedia, but I’m a nerd.)
Okay, as far as the Odyssey goes….it’s good, but heavy. Instead, I have had my kids read the Percy Jackson and The Olympians. Excellent series by Rick Riordan that will teach your kids about the gods in such a fun way they won’t know they’re learning. Can’t recommend these books enough. (Ages 8-14, but I love ‘em too.)
And Watership Down? Are you kidding me? That book was assigned when I was in 9th grade and I think I almost gave up reading. That book, along with Catcher In The Rye, inspired me full of hate both for stupid rabbits in their byzantine warrens and slacker, aimless college students.
Also, my favorite writer when I was a kid was Hemingway. I read them all. Oh! And anything by Chaim Potok, especially The Chosen.
As far as self-help goes, “Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff”, is a great read. Also, if a person wants to manage his or her life, Stephen Covey’s 10 Habits is classic. This book is a good one for a kid to develop a framework for managing his life. First rule is most important: Begin with the end in mind. Words to live by.
15. Winnie the Pooh A.A. Milne
Exposition of common personalities. Friendship.
14. Charlotte’s Web E.B. White
Cycle of life and death. Memories transcend death.
13. The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
Listen to your mother. Obedience. Adventure.
12. Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
You always have a home and someone who loves you. Power of family.
11. The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams
The power of love to transform. Overcoming hardship. Finding purpose.
10. Frog & Toad Are Friends Arnold Lobel
Friendship makes life better. Adventures. Treasuring friendship.
9. The Lion, Witch & The Wardrobe [Series] C.S. Lewis
The power of choice. Doing the right thing against all odds.
8. Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl
Surviving even the worst oppression. Psychology of men.
7. 1984 George Orwell
Best description of totalitarianism.
6. Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
How a free society can be turned of their own will into slaves of the state.
5. Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Faith. Leadership. Loss. Ambiguity of evil. Adventure.
4. Maslow on Management Abraham Maslow
Best book on the psychology of leadership and management, bar none.
3. Dune Frank Hebert
The power of servant leadership verses dictatorial force.
2. Sun Tzu’s Art of War
Again, understanding the psychology of leadership and tactics to employ.
1. The Bible God
Obviously, every educated person should read the Bible. It is a primer on human nature, natural law, morality, consequences, and connecting a person’s physical existence to the Creator. In essence, while many books can teach people what to do, the Bible gives a foundation for why something must be done. Truly, “the foundation of all knowledge is the Word of God.” Amen.
On Weight Loss…
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Hi guys, I see that you’re having a discussion about weight loss [at MelissaClouthier.com]. It’s not a burden to the website. Thought I’d share a couple thoughts and you guys can continue the discussion:
1. Often, there is an underlying issue around why a person gained weight. A physical trauma like a busted knee that forces immobility, say, or an emotional trauma that causes the cortisol-insulin feedback loop to go haywire.
2. Often, a person has to resolve the underlying issue in order to get to the desired weight.
3. Weight loss is a simple equation: burn more calories than you consume. Simple does not mean easy.
4. Nearly everyone (I see this in practice all the time) knows the answers for weight loss for himself on some level. That is, they know that ___________ thing is bad for them and that they should avoid it, but they often feel a compulsion toward the unhelpful thing. There can be a mind or body component here. For example, many people crave sugar because it is a natural serotonin booster which is the feel-good hormone. Like a nutrition expert I know says, “Diabetics are happy people. It’s the starving super models who are mean.” Sugar makes for a sunnier outlook but can reek havoc on the endocrine system. Eventually, the body gets tired of trying to adjust to the swinging. Some people avoid the very foods they need, too. For example, many vegetarians avoid meat because they feel disgusting eating it while suffering low energy. They need meat–they often also need to resolve the hidden digestion issue. Their bodies aren’t breaking food down properly to get the nutrition.
I.E. it’s not what you eat, it’s what you absorb.
5. Eating unhealthy is easier. People are busy….grabbing carbs–chips, cookies, candy bars, etc. is convenient.
6. Some people need to face the truth: They would rather eat that ding dong (they love ding dongs) than be thinner. I had a diabetic patient tell me, “I’d rather drink Coke and die, than not drink Coke.” Okay, then. I gave advice with that in mind. There were still other things he could do to help himself.
7. Metabolism is closely related to hormones. It IS hormonal. So, especially as we age, our vitality is closely related to our levels of hormones which relates to our activity levels. It’s circular. If the cycle can be broken either by exercising or by intervening with hormone therapy, often a person can get the positive reinforcement needed to press on with the efforts.
8. Weight loss is a very individual thing. What works for one will not work for another. I got into it with the leader of a dance troop who encouraged everyone to eat mostly vegetables and only chicken. Only problem was that one of the dancers was borderline anemic and thrived on red meat. She needed it in a way others didn’t. People need to do what works for them. As my mentor told me, “One person’s pleasure is another person’s poison.” When it comes to diet, it is most definitely true. Also, when and how a person eats is also individual.
Here are some principles (keep in mind, I struggle with this too. I’m healthy, but I am by no means thin.):
1. Start with protein. Start the day with protein–eggs are good. You’ll feel more “full” all day.
2. Eat regularly. That is, don’t stress your blood sugar system by waiting too long between meals and putting your body into a calorie hoarding state.
3. Eat protein with everything. It will regulate your blood sugar and fill you up.
4. Eat socially. Have company.
5. Sit when you eat.
6. Stop eating before you feel full.
7. If food is your non-stop focus, food isn’t the issue.
Anyway, my two cents. Somewhere between obsessive skinniness and obesity, there’s a healthy balance. Genetics plays a big part in longevity. Being at a healthy weight can enhance your genetic potential. These days, I see way more people obsessed rather than living joyfully. Making food a god, either by avoidance or over-indulgence is wasteful. Food is meant to not only be functional but also a sensory and sensual delight. The irony is that for all the focus and fear, people are not getting thinner or healthier, they’re just more miserable. If you’re gonna be fat, might as well be happy!
About Those Fat People
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009On my radio show tonight, on RFC [10EST, 9 CST], I talk about exactly what Megan McCardle says here:
These aren’t just a way to save on health care; they’re a way to extend and expand the cultural hegemony of wealthy white elites. No, seriously. Living a fit, active life is correlated with being healthier. But then, as an economist recently pointed out to me, so is being religious, being married, and living in a small town; how come we don’t have any programs to promote these “healthy lifestyles”? When you listen to obesity experts, or health wonks, talk, their assertions boil down to the idea that overweight people are either too stupid to understand why they get fat, or have not yet been made sufficiently aware of society’s disgust for their condition. Yet this does not describe any of the overweight people I have ever known, including the construction workers and office clerks at Ground Zero. All were very well aware that the burgers and fries they ate made them fat, and hitting the salad bar instead would probably help them lose weight. They either didn’t care, or felt powerless to control their hunger. They were also very well aware that society thought they were disgusting, and many of them had internalized this message to the point of open despair. What does another public campaign about overeating have to offer them, other than oozing condescension?
Government-run health care is a way for the government to control every aspect of your life from cradle to grave. The control won’t be scientifically based, it will be based on whatever moral high horse whomever runs the government agencies decides to ride. There are very compelling reasons to oppose government run health care: we can’t afford it, it will stifle innovation, it discriminates against the elderly and poor, and it is a scheme (ill-advised at that) to redistribute wealth. But the biggest reason to oppose it boils down to civil liberties.
When the government controls health care, they control you.
Canada’s Health Care Reveals What A “Public Option” Plan Really Looks Like
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009This Pajamas video by Steven Crowder is a must-see. It’s 20 minutes of human evidence about horrible health care. And remember, the rich will always be able to afford to pay for better care. The public plan forces middle and lower income people who have good medical care now, into a government-run abyss of waiting lists, rationing and outright denial of care.
And check out the facilities. No gleaming, beautiful waiting rooms. Cinder block, gray, socialist, misery.
Or Maybe Women Just Dig Different Kinds Of Dudes–UPDATED
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009When I did my post picking the hottest conservative guys, my criteria was simple: Were they datable? Now, many people saw the list and wondered at my choices. There was no “type”. Some guys were blond and blue eyed. Some guys were square-jawed. Some were scruffy. Some were baby-faced. Some were choir-boy innocent looking. They were all hot in their own ways and different women would pick different guys, depending on their unique likes and dislikes. I even mentioned that in my post.
Guys, on the other hand, are rather predictable. When a middle aged man dumps his wife, he often does not bother with a woman his own age with three kids in tow. No, he’s looking for the same thing he liked at 25: a 25 year old woman with big ta-tas, wide-set eyes, thin and looks good in jeans, or better yet, nothing.
So, some researchers confirm this with shaky science. Future Pundit says:
So why are men more consistent in their judgments? Do women differ from each other more than men do in their mating strategies? Or is the study picking up on greater variation over time in terms of what women want in men? In particular, how much of the female difference was due to the women being at different stages of their menstrual cycles? See my post Ovulating Women Prefer Smell Of Dominant Men and also my post Nursing Women More Attracted To Higher Pitch Male Voices. Monthly hormonal variations are going to cause women to feel more attraction to alpha men with more masculine features when the women are ovulating and then toward beta men to help raise the kids.
Another possible cause of the greater female difference might be due to age of the females. Does a 35 year old woman on average want different physical features (perhaps less masculinity) than a 20 year old woman? Maybe the full article gets into this. If anyone reads it post in the comments.
This strikes me as over-thinking it. Really, women like more variability in their men than men like in women. I know it’s difficult to fathom, but there are women who look at Brad Pitt or Cary Grant and say, I’d much prefer Mick Jagger. Men shake their heads and say, How did that dude get that girl? I am using popular stars, by the way, for an example. This happens in real life, too.
To continue using Hollywood examples. When you think of leading men, they all look differently. That is, my girlfriend Denise love, LOVE, LOVES that dude from George of the Jungle and Mummy, Brendan Frazier. Um, hello, yuck. But whatever. I met Ricky Gervais in New York. He had a group of girls fawning. Yes, he’s popular, and probably gay, but my interest level was somewhere between ho-hum and whatever. Paul Newman? Now, he was hot at any age. Robert Redford? Not-so-much. And there are a bunch of women who would disagree with me. I went through an Orlando Bloom, Legolas, phase and my girlfriends thought I had lost my mind. My sister preferred Viggo Mortensen’s Aragorn. I thought he needed a bath.
When you think of leading ladies, though. They all look the same. There’s the Marilyn Monroe “type”. So the current iteration is Scarlett Johannsen before she lost her boobs to that silly notion called fitness. There’s the dark-hair, dark-eyed type. There’s the exotic type. Go through the ages and the women fall into a classic category. There is even more sameness when it comes to body type. Boobs, waist, butt in nice proportion. Symmetrical facial features. Did I mention thin?
Who is the current Audrey Hepburn (the “pixie”)? Who is the current Princess Grace (the patrician blond)? Hint: Sharon Stone was. No doubt, there’s a current one. Go through the list. They women fall into a category and everyone recognizes them as beautiful.
A guy would simply say, “Yeah, I’d do her.” Does she think? Does she carry a conversation? Does it matter? She’s hot or she’s not.
So scientists can try to get down to the why of the wiring, but I don’t think the study, however shoddy, is off-base. Women dig guys for all sorts of reasons and good looks ain’t always one of them.
Well, he’s good looking to her. And that’s all that matters.
UPDATED:
If you’re interested, we will be talking about this topic and more on my RFC Radio show (Radio for Conservatives) and podcast (hit the podcast button tomorrow, when it will be updated). Tonight, on the show John Hawkins of Right Wing News and Tabitha Hale of Smart Girl Politics and Pink Elephant Pundit join me to talk Sarah Palin, Obama siding with dictators and more.
The radio show Right Doctor is on RFC Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-11 p.m. EST/ 9-10 p.m. CST.
UPDATED AGAIN:
Thanks for the link, Glenn, and the pressure. Man, speaking for all women?
Curing Our Public Education System
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Here’s my cure for the sick system:
1. Eliminate tenure, the bane of all union systems.
2. Teach a classical education.
3. No homework until sixth grade.
4. Find a way to make standardized testing shorter and less complicated.
To learn more about education please listen to my interview with Matthew K. Tabor, education and new media expert.
There are so many issues that we on the right have conceded to the left. Matt is young and dedicated to exposing the fraud and problems in the educational system. There are people out there doing this work. We need to be paying more attention to this topic because our tax dollars are at work here and in a big way.
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