Texas state Representative Scott Turner gave the keynote address at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
It is a refreshing speech that emphasized that the path to success is not to act entitled to anything or demand you be given something for nothing, but to work hard.
Rep. Turner has filed to run for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Each Friday for the next few months, an episode of Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose will be posted.
The second episode: The Tyranny of Control
A research paper submitted to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto has revealed shocking practices of Toronto Public Schools.
The “Socialist Studies” blog reveals the “anti-heteronormative” agenda of the school district, as well as outright calling upon Marxist theory to develop pedagogy — in elementary schools!
Some of the major points include:
The rabid left are so obsessed with this, that everything becomes about it, without exception.
The full research paper can be seen below:
Saydi Rodriguez.challenging Heteronormativity in the Primary Classroom
The “official” unemployment rate has fallen to 6.7%, compared to an average unemployment rate of 5.3% under Geroge W. Bush. Four years after the “official” recovery from the recession in 2009, the unemployment rate has finally dropped below 7%. So, does this mean the “recovery” has finally reached the working man?
To put it bluntly, NO.
The employment participation rate dropped heavily due to the recession. Since then it has remained near that lower level. The percentage of Americans who are employed not only fell, but has remained depressed.
How, then, can the unemployment rate keep on dropping? Simply that the official unemployment rate only includes those who are currently looking for a job — those who have dropped out of the workforce are no longer counted. If the unemployment rate was measured using the pre-recession employment participation rate, it would be above 10% today, and every day since the recession official ended.
A man who came to California illegally from Mexico has been granted the right to practice law, despite the fact that “under federal law, no law firm, business or public agency can legally hire him.”
This is just another example of eliminating the distinction between citizens and non-citizens. Already, the California Grand Soviet Legislature passed a bill to give non-citizens the right to sit on juries, and thus in judgment of others, including citizens. Thankfully, that bill was vetoed… this time. Aside from voting, for now at least, only the right to hold office serves to distinguish a citizen as a member of this body politic, society, and country. Unsurprisingly, then, he wants to run for Governor!
Marriage is no longer what it once was: A social more protect by law intended to channel the energy and sexual drive of men and women into a stable family where children can be loved and raised.
With same-sex “marriage” and the rise of illegitimacy, sexual reproduction has been severed in society from love or raising children, respectively. Now, a court ruling means that raising children now has nothing to do with sexuality or love: “In a first of its kind ruling in New York, a Manhattan judge has given a couple who’re just friends the green light to become legal co-parents to an adopted girl.”
Getting a child to raise now has nothing to do with love between the “co-parents” or even anything to do with sex. Similarly, “marriage” isn’t about sexual reproduction since it is biologically impossible for two people of the same sex to have a child between them, nor is it tied into child-raising for that reason. Sex, then, becomes purely about pleasure and an emotional drug, with marriage being delayed or abandoned, and contraceptives/abortion allowing people to have sex without consequences.
These things were once tied into marriage, and the institution stabilized all three of those factors into a social good that benefited all. They are now rent asunder.
News of the Week for January 12th, 2014
A University of Arizona student has documented being stopped over 300 times by Federal border checkpoints… despite not only NOT transversing the border, but also being hundreds of mile from the borders!
The right to a secure border is something that all nations may exercise. However, being checked and monitored for your movements within the country goes beyond any reasonable use of the Federal government’s Constitutional reach.
Perhaps this is most frightening when one remembers a certain line regarding Montana from “The Hunt for Red October”:
Each Friday for the next few months, an episode of Milton Friedman’s ten-part Free to Choose will be posted.
The first episode: The Power of the Market
A woman was subject to “sexual assault and gratuitous radiological bombardment” by the police because… a dog prompted them to!
“First the agents strip-searched the plaintiff, examining her anus and vagina with a flashlight. Finding nothing, they took her to the University Medical Center of El Paso, where they forced her to take a laxative and produce a bowel movement in their presence. Again they found no evidence of contraband. At this point one of their accomplices, a physician named Christopher Cabanillas, ordered an X-ray, which likewise found nothing suspicious. Then the plaintiff “endured a forced gynecological exam” and rectal probing at the hands of another doctor, Michael Parsa. Still nothing. Finally, Cabanillas ordered a CT scan of the plaintiff’s abdomen and pelvis, which found no sign of illegal drugs. ‘After the CT scan,’ the complaint says, ‘a CBP [Customs and Border Patrol] agent presented Ms. Doe with a choice: she could either sign a medical consent form, despite the fact that she had not consented, in which case CBP would pay for the cost of the searches; or if she refused to sign the consent form, she would be billed for the cost of the searches.’ She refused, and later the hospital sent her a bill for $5,000, apparently the going rate for sexual assault and gratuitous radiological bombardment.”
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