Blaine Amendments Hurt Children

Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation and Breitbart News’ Jarrett Stepman have released a peer-reviewed article in with the Journal of School Choice outlining the impact of how obsolete laws inspired by vehement anti-Catholicism are impacting the school choice movement and leaving millions of children stuck in bad schools or with bad teachers.

The laws were passed in the late 19th century and are generally known as “Blaine Amendments” after Maine Congressman and Speaker of the House James G. Blaine who promoted them.

A type of Blaine Amendment is on the books in 38 states including Pennsylvania.

Hat tip Tom Coniglia

Blaine Amendments Hurt Children

Blaine Amendments Hurt Children

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-29-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-29-14

About half of all accidental deaths in Tudor England were by drowning. People fell into rivers or down wells as they searched for water. About 10 percent of accidental deaths back then involved horses.

Frozen Doll For Christmas

Well, the Christmas season is still with us and will be as far as we’re concerned until Jan. 6 — they don’t call it the 12 days of Christmas for nothing, you know, even we celebrate it for 13 — so we present this heartwarming father-daughter vignette.

The little girl had asked for a Frozen doll but got a valuable life lesson instead.

 

Frozen Doll For Christmas

Yes, Elsa, she got at frozen doll For Christmas

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-27-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-27-14

215,000 Soviet citizens died fighting for Nazi Germany.

Congress Cut Spending

USA Today ran a column by Grove City College professor Paul Kengor on Oct. 29 describing how the GOP-congress actually did manage to cut spending — and for two straight years.

Kengor says he was inspired to write it after hearing Congressman Tim Murphy (R-Pa18) make the claim during a stump speech. He was skeptical of it so he checked it and, lo and behold, found it to be true.

Spending dropped from $3.6 trillion in 2011 to $3.54 trillion in 2012 to $3.45 trillion in 2013.

It was the first time spending was cut in consecutive years since 1953-55.

The deficit has been cut to $500 billion which is less than half of what it was when the Democrats controlled everything in 2010, says Kengor.

Congress Cut Spending

Congress Cut Spending

 

 

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-26-14

William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 12-26-14

Bandy season starts in Sweden at 1:15 p.m. the day after Christmas. What’s is bandy you ask? It’s like ice hockey except it’s played on a frozen surface the size of a soccer field and they use a small round ball instead of puck.

Maybe you can call it street hockey with ice skates.

E-Z Pass Eyes Speeders

Something of which some may be unaware is that E-Z Pass keeps track of toll lane speeds.

This has been confirmed as occurring in five of the 15 states that use E-Z Pass, reports USA Today. The quintet of nannies is  Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,  Maryland and Rhode Island.

The toll lane speed limit is generally a 30 mph limit.

Those caught speeding multiple times have their accounts suspended.

As of now only those caught chronically speeding in their own states are subject to suspension as the system, while it can can credit the transponders of out-of-state drivers, does not allow access to other information about them.

We always suspected Big Brother could be spelled E-Z Pass. Our preference is to simply end all attempts to charge for using highways. Let the gas tax suffice for maintaining the infrastructure of which there would be less to maintain if there were no toll booths. The would also mean more entrances and, especially, exits hence more a more efficient traffic system.

E-Z Pass Eyes Speeders

E-Z Pass Eyes Speeders

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-25-14

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 12-25-14

“Wassail” is from the Old Norse “ves heill”–to be of good health. They had a tradition of visiting neighbors on Christmas Eve and drinking to their health.

Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

Here is Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 written for the Christmas season of 1734 by J. S Bach.

It is performed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists.

Merry Christmas

Hat tip PJMedia.com

Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

Christmas Oratorio BWV 248

 

Dow Wow Boom Times Now

The Dow Jones industrial average set a record, yesterday, Dec. 23, closing at 18,024.17.

It was the first time it close over 18,000.

That’s almost 2,000 points higher than it was in mid-October.

Golly, what could have happened since then?

In truth, the economy has been humming along since April driven by falling gas prices.

Thank you frackers everywhere.

Just the same, there has been a feeling of optimism through the summer that a brake is going to be put on the bizarre regulatory policies of the Obama Administration and that significant reforms (repeal?) loom for the disastrous “Affordable” Care Act.

Dow Wow Boom Times Now

Dow Wow Boom Times Now