Monthly Archives: April 2011

At What Point are you Too Old for “The Scene?”

I celebrated another anniversary of my twenty-ninth birthday two weeks ago, and God has a funny way of sending you periodic reminders that you aren’t as young as you used to be. It’s your body taking extra time to recover after a work out. Sometimes, you find out the hard way that you don’t have quite the same tolerance with the alcohol.

The other day, I had one of those experiences at Terminal 5 in New York City (a club that sucks as bad as everyone says it does) during a My Chemical Romance concert.

I had seen MCR a few years ago during “Projekt Revolution” and thought they put on a great live show. I was looking forward to seeing them again as a headliner (when I saw them, they were just under Linkin Park in billing). Their new album was a favourite of mine from last year, so when tickets went on sale I figured “what the hell?”

What the hell was that…for starters, my pre-gaming has changed from a few Budweiser tallboys to a few pints at Rattle n Humm that are slightly higher in ABV, which was ok. I wasn’t in the bag, just buzzed and a little tired. Then came the concert.
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Did Paul Ryan Just Become the Leader of the Republican Party?

This has as much to do with the President’s rant against Paul Ryan yesterday as much as it does the lack of other options on our side. John Boehner is rapidly losing support for his budget deal that doesn’t quite look like much of a deal, and the only Presidential candidate that getting any press lately is Donald Trump, who…honestly, I’d be here encoding hyperlinks all day with examples of why he needs to just stop.

That said, President Obama seemed to launch his re-election campaign against not any of the candidates or the Speaker of the House, but against the Chairman of the House Budget committee. Paul Ryan introduced his budget, “the Path to Prosperity,” last week. Love it or hate it, it’s hard to deny it’s not a serious plan and a clear direction for the country.

Well, yesterday was the President’s turn. He invited Ryan and a few others to hear him speak on his plan for the budget and to tackle the debt. Only instead…

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Top Ten Reasons Why Mitch Daniels Should Run for President

The more I hear aboot Donald Trump wanting to see Barack Obama’s birth certificate, the more impatient I get waiting for Mitch Daniels to announce he’s running for President.

Today brings two more news articles (both national and local) suggesting that he’s getting closer to make a decision. My sources tell me that one way or another, and official decision is coming in May…when he also happens to be traveling to Washington DC to give a speech on education reform. So while we wait, the good folks at Hoosier Access (where all Indiana bloggers serve at the pleasure of my CPAC roomie Josh Gillespie) put together ten great reason why Mitch is the man for the job.

The good folks at HA go into full detail on each of these, but for the bulletpoints, here are the top ten reasons why Mitch Daniels needs to run for President…

Reduced Indiana’s Debt…Without Raising Taxes
Turned Deficits Into Surpluses…Without Raising Taxes
Two Balanced Budgets…Without Raising Taxes
Massive Job Growth
Property Taxes Capped
Public Employee Unions Disbanded
Streamlined State Government
Affordable Health Insurance…Without Government Expansion
Aggressive Education Reform Agenda
Nation’s Largest Voucher Expansion Program

John Kasich Wants Angry Parents with their Finger on the Trigger

With the amount of random tweets from angry liberals the last time I wrote aboot Gov. John Kasich, apparently he must be doing something right in Ohio. The question is how many people he can piss off with education reform and something ominously called “The Parent Trigger.”

DUN DUN DUN!

One of the biggest components of reforming the public education system is giving parents, particularly those in failing school districts, more of a say in their children’s schooling. I know that sounds crazy giving parents a choice, but that’s a rant for a different time. It ‘s because the system gives parents so few choices that things like a “parent trigger” are necessary.

So what is this “parent trigger?” Well…
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Why Do Liberals Hate Michelle Rhee So Much?

For all the criticism that conservatives get for being intolerant of “moderates” in the Republican Party, we don’t vilify our own the way left wing extremists seem to vilify Michelle Rhee.

Rhee, a Democrat, has become one of the most vocal supporters of education reform, something teachers unions and the extremist left oppose. They’ve already run her and now former mayor Adrian Fenty, another Democrat, out of Washington DC where they tried reforming the worst public education system in the country (side now, President Obama sat by counting his donations from the unions while this was going on). Now, according to an article in the Daily News, they’re attacking Rhee personally for being a “Cheat, Fraud, and Failure.”

When you can’t beat someone with ideas trying to destroy them personally is the most logical step, and while the DN dismisses each of those charges, here are some of the radical ideas that the far left of the Democratic Party opposes…

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Is Adam Hasner the Next…that “Other” Senator from Florida?

I like how Twitter can function as your own personal focus group. During the recent ten minutes when it was rumoured that Joe Scarborough was being recruited to run for Florida Senate on 2012, I had sent out a tweet asking who else was rumoured to be running. Not being familiar with the Florida political scene, I was curious if there was “another Marco Rubio” hiding in the state somewhere.

The name that most came up was Adam Hasner, the former Majority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives.

Now as soon as you say “x” is the next “y,” you’ve doomed them and the set yourself off to disappointment. Plus, how many e-mails have you already gotten saying “X is the Next Marco Rubio?” Instead of being the next anyone, the first Adam Hasner sounds promising…

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