Late Night Video — Common Core and Standardized Tests Make Kids Gay

Late Night Video — Common Core and Standardized Tests Make Kids Gay

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So this is the end of the argument right? I mean, somehow this has to be the equivalent of Godwin's law -- As the discussion of Common Core and standardized testing grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving homosexuals approaches 1. How does that work for you? Because we have Rep. Charles Van Zant saying that the testing company providing FL standardized tests (and Common Core!) promotes homosexuality (approx 3 mins long):
Tuesday Open Thread [5.20.14]

Tuesday Open Thread [5.20.14]

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Michael Tomasky says the Tea Party is not quite dead yet:
Tonight, the tea party is going to lose some elections. Its Senate candidates in Kentucky and Georgia are going to lose—and lose really, really badly in at least in Kentucky. The theme of the night on cable (and for the balance of the week really) will be the death of the tea party. Everybody’s waiting with a safety net, as Elvis Costello (nearly) sang, but I say don’t bury them ’cuz they’re not dead yet. While it’s true that the majority of tea-party candidates are losing, something else has been going on more under the radar, smartly picked up on recently by Jamie Fuller of The Washington Post. A lot of Republican candidates are trying to finesse the establishment-tea party Maginot Line and be both things to all people. She writes, I believe accurately, that the clear goal of many candidates is “staying comfortable with the tea party while networking with the establishment on the side.” This certainly describes North Carolina’s Thom Tillis. He beat an explicitly tea party backed challenger, but Tillis is still deeply reactionary (eliminate the minimum wage entirely, he once suggested!), he backed the Cruz-led government shutdown, and he is distinguishable ideologically from tea party candidates only in that he’s not quite as wacko as the tea party guy was.
Tyranical Chipotle Tramples Freedom

Tyranical Chipotle Tramples Freedom

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I was going to write a post parodying wingut reaction to Chipotle's decision to ask its patrons to not menace other patrons by brandishing their firearms. But winguts these days defy parody. Here is the hysterical whine of the "Tea Party Nation" on the topic:
The Scam of Wilmington Property Tax Increases

The Scam of Wilmington Property Tax Increases

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You may have heard that the Mayor's office and the City Council have reached a compromise on the city budget. I think that it is the Mayor and Council President Theo Gregory who have reached the compromise, since no Council votes have been taken yet. Forgetting that detail, the 9.9% Hair on Fire increase (this was the one that if they didn't get it, they wouldn't be able to maintain city services -- even though this tax increase would cover the current budget shortfall enough to produce an almost $3M budget surplus. Now, the "compromise" is a 5% property tax increase that leaves the city with a $1.4M surplus. The Water and Sewer rates are being reduced to 5% increases each (from 8% and 7% respectively), and the City will still not be paying its share of these bills.