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W. James Antle III, associate editor
of The American Spectator, grew up in the Boston area,
where “being a Republican is fundamentally no different from being
a third-party voter.” Antle, 33, has long been interested in the
relationship between libertarians and the mainstream parties. In
“The Son Also Rises” (page 38), he reports on the Kentucky
senatorial campaign of Rand Paul, son of former presidential
candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas). A Ron Paul supporter in 2008,
Antle says “people are hopeful about Rand Paul, that he’s just a
savvier libertarian than his dad, not a Republican lifer.”
Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward was
raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Her parents previously
lived in the city itself, but they fled in the 1980s because
“enrolling me in the District’s public schools seemed like a
horrible idea.” More than 20 years later, D.C.’s schools are still
among the worst in the nation. But in “Last Chance for School
Reform” (page 46), Mangu-Ward, 29, profiles a frenetic new
superintendent with unprecedented powers who arrived at an
auspicious moment to reshape the city’s schools. “D.C. is drawing
attention from education reformers and national news outlets as a
test case for school reform in America,” she says. Now that she is
safely past school age, Mangu-Ward has returned to Washington,
where she lives with her husband.
Lisa Snell is the director of
education at the Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes
this magazine. In “Obama’s Education Spending Frenzy” (page 50),
she describes the prospects for reform under President Barack
Obama’s education secretary, Arne Duncan. “A lot of things at the
margins are breaking the public school monopolies,” she says. “Ten
years ago no one would have conceived of the options we have now.
Still, we just keep spending billions and billions on schools that
don’t work.” Snell, 42, has two kids in public school in
California. She says her kids give her “a lot of fodder” for her
work.
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"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."
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Even if you go on his website, it's still just a a ten minute discussion. The interview with Jim Cramer simply amounted to Jim sputtering something every couple of minutes while John wagged his finger at him the whole time. I've never seen him have an intelligent discussion with anybody, and he only talks to people that he knows he can bully into a corner. Usually idiots, yes, but it's still dispicable. I don't watch him that often, but it is people like him that make me wretch. The fact that people go around saying "He slammed so and so" in that "debate" pisses me off. John's not directly responsible for that, but he certainly plays his audience to get that effect.
abercrombie uk|6.3.10 @ 3:35AM|#
"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one."
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