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1. 2 days ago on Mike Beckom

   Yep, I knew a girl who really didn’t belong in college – but they’d lowered their admission standards to beef up income from incoming freshmen. I met her as a tutor to help her get through remedial math – it was stuff from the 8th grade level.

   She could not get it. (The college had conditionally accepted her into their biology degree program – but she had to pass remedial math by the end of her freshmen year to continue.)

   Then the Born Agains got ahold of her, and all she wanted to do was regurgitate whatever they were telling her. To her, her problems with math were “part of God’s Plan” and she quit trying to learn it. She flunked out of her remedial math courses.

   Sadly, the collage reinforced her notions by allowing her to change majors from biology to religious studies. At that point she was only there to get a “Mrs. degree”…

2. 2 days ago on Tom the Dancing Bug

   I recently encountered a popular local news reader at a local restaurant. The restaurant was fairly empty, and there was no way to avoid eye contact while passing her table while we were leaving. This was a personality that had been quoted in the newspaper as wanting more privacy. So other than giving a small smile we walked past without making any fuss… could tell by her pout that she was expecting a fuss…

3. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

   Legislators who are poor scientists insist upon overreaching into areas where they can harm but not help…

4. 2 days ago on Joel Pett

   Yep, that’s a dangerous fantasy.

5. 2 days ago on 9 to 5

   If one is forced to spend a lot of time focused upon basic needs, one will never have the time to grow beyond basic needs. Things that the collective (a.k.a. government) can provide allows one to spend time on better things. But those things always cost time and money… groups pooling their resources (a.k.a. government) are often more effective than individuals. Countries and economies grow because individuals do not have to do every last thing for themselves, and have time to exercise their specialties.

   For example: roads. Necessary for one to get to places, necessary for one’s goods to be accessed by customers. Individuals have a hard time building roads with the capabilities of modern roads… government pools many people’s resources (a.k.a. taxes) to build high capacity roads – one can take advantage of those roads to build commerce, instead of toiling long hours just to make commerce possible.

   Although bureaucracy does tend to accumulate problems, that is because it is subject to the varied wants and needs of the population. Planning and organization is necessary, but does not automatically create a government-enforced monopoly that always works against the public’s interests.

   Roads example, again. There are some places more suitable for roads than others – allowing them to be built willy-nilly is inefficient at best. Road locations are compromises – they do not hurt the population despite forcing it to travel on certain paths instead of just anywhere individuals feel like travelling.

6. 2 days ago on Mike Beckom

   There’s a difference in telling kids what to do all of the time, and teaching kids to analyze information and parse out what is practical and reasonable.

7. 2 days ago on Al Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons

   So two peas in a pod. Does that make your guy better?

8. 2 days ago on Clay Jones

   She’s wearing her “I really don’t care, do you?” coat.

9. 2 days ago on Kevin Kallaugher

   These tribes have been clashing for many generations. The recent Hamas attack, followed by Netanyahu’s response, is more of the same… and will likely generate more of the same for generations to come.

10. 2 days ago on Mike Beckom

    Or watch the “Born Again” crowd at work in a college freshmen dorm…