Hekia Parata was accurately predicted to be useless as a minister by this blog in 2010. She is an ill tempered bully who loses staff almost as quickly as she replaces them.

In November 2010 I highlighted the problems with Queen Hekia, and the questions the media should have been asking.

Fairfax and APN editors should start asking a few questions of their political journalists. They have really dropped the ball on this one. They should ask the following questions:

• After losing five parliamentary Executive Assistants in the first two years in parliament, do they think Hekia will front the next CTU anti 90 day advertisement?  Read more »

Rahm Emmanuel, the Mayor of Chicago has just rinsed the teacher unions by shutting 49 schools. And boy are the teacher unions and their mouth-pieces bitter about it.

The New York Times has written about this story and twice said that the school closings were the largest “in recent memory.” The Times wrote this despite my telling them–twice–that these were the largest mass closure ever. I wish the reporters would explain whose “memory” they were relying on. Just yesterday I explained in an email that no public school district had ever closed 49 schools at one time. On this issue, the “Times” is not the newspaper of record but the newspaper of “recent memory.”  Read more »

American politics is a joy to behold. It is robust, and nasty and wonderful all at the same time. Take this sledging:

Massachusetts GOP Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez called his opponent, longtime Rep. Ed Markey, “pond scum” during an interview with an NPR reporter on Thursday.  Read more »

Proverbs 26

¹⁴As a door swings back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.

It’s Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo.

via uproxx.com

A vegan couple’s newborn died after they only fed it soy milk and apple juice. They are currently serving life in prison. (source)

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