Education refund…

Steve Hilton on his FOX News show,  “The Next Revolution”,  suggested that if schools remain closed in the fall,  parents  should receive  education tax tax dollar refunds.  I think that is a splendid idea and should be carried out immediately.  In light of shakedowns by groups such as the  LA teachers  union,  which recently released a research paper on steps needed to safely reopen public schools amid the COVID-19 outbreak and pointed to the need to free up additional funding by defunding the police and charter schools and putting that money towards helping communities,  not to mention a federal Medicare-for-all program.   It prattles on about being concerned for the safety of students and communities,  but if that was truly your concern,  why would you refuse to do your jobs unless your demands were met before you did your jobs?  And hasn’t $150 million already been cut from the police to be given to disadvantaged communities?

Here is my idea:  If you live in an area which has been damaged by rioting,  looting,  vandalism,  collect like-minded folks and start filing lawsuits against the municipalities and governments which not only allowed, but also encouraged and welcomed the lawlessness.   They don’t care about you or the area,   so ignore their moans of  “You’re hurting the city, or the police, or teachers,  etc.”  And if you’re brave enough,  figure out how much of your tax bill goes to various departments and pay only that portion of your tax bill which represents the services you like and the departments which actually perform their assigned duties.   Say you are not refusing to pay, but are suspending payment until the services are actually provided, etc.   Most cities don’t have enough inflow from taxes and fines to keep themselves afloat for more than a month or two.   Disrupt that cash flow and there is panic,  threats,  then crash and burn.

Do I believe any of this will happen?  No,  but isn’t it a lovely thought?

9/11 after 10…Part I

I’ll be surfing about to find the best,  most interesting commentary, and will post as I find and digest them.

These are the  most iconic photographs  of that awful day,   and a decade of  9/11 magazine covers  (h/t Jonah Goldberg).   Peggy Noonan says we haven’t gotten over it  and shouldn’t,  which is quite different from the day of service His Oneness has turned the event into.  Read Matthew Vadum’s  take on how  the remembrance has been perverted,  and do click on the link near the end for Pamela Geller’s piece.

You can read AFL-CIO President Richard  Trumpka’s nasty  call for action,  or just Aaron Goldstein’s  post on it.

If you aren’t teaching your children about 9/11,   start!   The educrats are  teaching  them,  but you won’t recognize the event.   Quin Hillyer points us to a pair of sterling columns:  one by Rich Lowry  on real heroes,   another by Charles Krauthammer brusquely dismissing  the popular notion that we over-reacted to the attack.   While you’re at it,  read Hillyer’s  old piece  as well  —  it has held up nicely.

Andy McCarthy has a good post up on the here and now aspect of 9/11,  with good links to other pieces,  and National Review Online has a  remembrance symposium.    Watch Gov.  Chris Christie  sum it up  perfectly with his customary truthful bluntness.