Reality check from Doug Ross @ Journal.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Dems and their state-run media are playing up the stock market jitters (largely over Barry’s ascendency) while national output has declined just one half of one percent. But, hey, it’s a great time to spend tax money in the name of "job creation," mainly for their buds.
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Victor Davis Hanson, a classics professor, wants high school students to have four years of it:
"…such instruction would do more for minority youths than all the ‘role model’ diversity sermons on Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Montezuma, and Caesar Chavez put together. Nothing so enriches the vocabulary, so instructs about English grammar and syntax, so creates a discipline of the mind, an elegance of expression, and serves as a gateway to the thinking and values of Western civilization as mastery of a page of Virgil or Livy (except perhaps Sophocles’s Antigone in Greek or Thucydides’ dialogue at Melos)."
He’s right, of course, though I don’t think I’d want to take four years of it. I only had to take one year, in 1960-61, and I still remember how cool it was to translate text so old yet still recognizable in its human concern. My grandmother taught Latin at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in the 1920s. But that was college.
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Mars, it seems, for all its dust, airlessness and radiation, could be a livable place, after all.
Via the Seablogger.
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What a laugher. No science is beyond dispute. Dispute is what science does. Only a pol would say something so stupid.
Via the Seablogger.
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Or, rather, the first facillitator of crooks: Barry’s apparent nominee for attorney general. Eric Holder, Slick Willie’s pardon-adviser. Well, he is black, and all that.
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A mosaic of astronomical images by Davide De Martin of Sky Factory, explained here. Via Bad Astronomy.
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Nevermind Barry’s cult of personality, it’s the global warmists we have to fear. The ones who want to remake our economy to resolve their notion of eco-pocolypse. Though Barry apparently will step up offshore drilling, he is also likely to back the EPA’s impending enforcement of carbon dioxide reductions (better hold your breath), and maybe buy up Detroit for the UAW to make teenie, weenie greenie cars. (Just so long as the Dems don’t require us to buy them.)
Meanwhile the Seablogger, freshly home from a blogged cruise to the Virgin Islands, sees perfidy behind the recent alleged NASA "blunder" in announcing October as the warmest month ever–when, in fact, it was one of the coolest. Anything to promote the Gorebot cult and Nancy Pelosi’s green "recovery," don’t you know. Big Media may get its long-touted depression yet if Barry and his party deepen the recession. At least we’d have the pleasure of seeing him voted out after one term. Or is he, perhaps, smarter than that? We’re going to find out.
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