It must be nice to be able to grade yourself and pass with flying colors despite reality. The Washington Post: The report, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Post, is one in a series of assessments prepared by Vice President Biden, who was charged with overseeing implementation of the stimulus money, the […]

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Though the Obama administration has shown that they are somewhat serious about encouraging some favorable changes in the educational system, the idea of Race to the Top should be seen as artificial cover for maintaining the same ol’ system which is in dire disrepair and in need of drastic overhauling. The program is asking that […]

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The American Spectator: Obama, we were told, was more self-reflective, substituting Bush’s coyboy swagger for sober introspection, which would allow him to admit error. However, with his political standing continuing to erode, President Obama is demonstrating the same type of intransigence that he once criticized in Bush. Instead of acknowledging that the $862 billion economic […]

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Elizabeth Warren, chair of a panel designed to oversee TARP fund allocation, on how responsible the Treasury Department has been: The point we make forcefully in this report is that there were no data about where this money was going, no information about where this money was going [. . .] Why is it again […]

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All the federal government needs to do is dangle “free” cash for long enough, and eventually, states, even those who vowed not to accept more cash, will cave in. Los Times: Mr. Sanford joined several other governors who had initially expressed hesitation about the money but later relented, including Dave Heineman of Nebraska and Sonny […]

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N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard economist, in a piece titled “Crisis Economics” at National Affairs concerning the reliance on Keneysian economic theories by the Obama administration while administering economic stimulus (and its current insistence on yet more stimulus cash being thrown in to the economy): The administration’s second assumption, meanwhile, is a matter of academic […]

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For those who might argue that President Obama isn’t a progressive ideologue. The Wall Street Journal: Economists who say Mr. Obama should have relied more on tax cuts cite research of an unlikely source: Ms. Romer, his adviser. In a study she and her husband, David Romer, conducted before she joined the administration, Ms. Romer […]

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Without question, one should draw the conclusion that Obama’s pandering of jobless folk during his speech in the Rose Garden is a full admission of his failed $1,000,000,000,000 stimulus bill.  An opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal: Sure, Mr. Obama’s ostensible purpose was to lobby Congress for the eighth extension of jobless benefits since […]

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Vermont has successfully shat upon what few good assets in education it has in order to pander for a few federal dollars.  Great job!  Michael Winerip of The New York Times: Ms. Irvine wasn’t removed by anyone who had seen her work (often 80-hour weeks) at a school where 37 of 39 fifth graders were […]

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Bu, bu, bu, but, I thought the stimulus was stimulating. That’s what you told a bunch of Michigan voters today.

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