uphill battle--more from WSJ

[Victor Steinbok <Victor.Steinbok@VERIZON.NET>]

Here's another major-league a**hole--and not just according to the
clown pretending to be president. This one (or many) is the latest
from Pete duPont at WSJ.

> The best policy decisions of the year? Testing every young child
> every year in school, to measure the child's and the school's
> progress. The strategic plan and our military's performance in
> Afghanistan. Withdrawing from the Kyoto global-warming treaty, which
> was based on bad science and was a Third World effort to cripple
> First World economies by applying its strictures only to them. And
> withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, an outdated
> agreement that prevented the United States from defending itself
> from credible threats.
>
> ...
>
> The 2001 Order of Lenin ("for outstanding services rendered to the
> State") goes to Philadelphia's Mayor John Street, leader of the
> Philadelphia Soviet, which prefers, in the words of former Gov. Tom
> Ridge, "publicly operated schools that fail children to privately
> operated ones that serve them well." The mayor and his allies fought
> to maintain control of one of the country's worst school systems and
> make sure it is not run by a private company, lest students actually
> learn to read (13% of high school juniors can today) or stay in
> school (50% now drop out). The mayor prepared a plan of action
> ranging from thrusting the district into bankruptcy to ending the
> collection of school taxes. The plan concludes: "The potential
> upside of this strategy is that it could cripple the school
> district's ability to function." Yes, it said upside.
>
> In spite of the philosophic realignment resulting from Sept. 11,
> political correctness is with us still. Parents, teachers and
> students at Breen Elementary School in Rocklin, Calif., held a rally
> for the New York firemen and policemen killed in the attack and
> raised some $4.000. But when they posted "God Bless America" on the
> school marquee, the ACLU declared it "divisive" and a violation of
> the First Amendment, and threatened legal action. Common sense
> prevailed when the school district's superintendent said the
> equivalent of Gen. McAuliffe's "Nuts!" in response to the German
> demand for surrender at Bastogne: Removing the slogan was, he said,
> "nonnegotiable."
>
> Then there was the National Organization of Women's demand that
> Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children, "is entitled to
> treatment and not punishment."
>
> The Last Place Award, though, goes to the New York Times for a
> glowing profile of Bill Ayres, an American Weather Underground
> terrorist of the '70s ("a charismatic figure in the radical student
> movement," by the Times' lights) who not only doesn't regret setting
> bombs, but still believes "we didn't do enough." Publication date?
> Sept. 11, 2001.
>
> On the other hand, all is not lost: the New York City School Board
> unanimously overturned a three-decade-old policy and instructed that
> all pupils should recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in
> school.

When you are done cleaning up the regurgitant and are still
hanckering for more punishment, the clip came from
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pdupont/

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