This Week's Graph

Americans in Poverty
(Enlargement)

"According to the latest Census figures, the population of the United States is a tad over 307 million persons. Of these, 47.8 million, or approximately 1 in 6 Americans, live in poverty."

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(Source.)

It's Been Said

"Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore, contributes to social injustice."

-- UN Habitat II Summit, 1976.

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. -- "The DeWeese Report," by Tom DeWeese, January 2012, page 4.

Quickie 1:

"Obama's profligate deficit spending confirms the researchers who discovered that Obama absorbed the Frances Fox Piven strategy, which he learned from her own lips as a principal speaker at a Socialist party Scholars Conference in New York in 1983 when Obama was a student at Columbia University. The strategy is to flood the welfare state with more recipients than taxpayers can afford, thereby creating a financial and political crisis that will doom the capitalist system and move the U.S. into Socialism."

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. -- "What We've Learned from the Budget Debate," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, May 2011, page 2.

Quickie 2:

"[T]he National Association of Scholars (NAS) issued a report called 'What Do Colleges Want Students to Read Outside of Class?' that lists the books recommended by 290 colleges. These scholars found that the books are more suited to Oprah's Book Club than universities, and 'rather than asking students to rise to college-level study, they shrink college-level study to the comfort zone of the average student.' [. . .] The NAS found that 70% of the books 'promote a liberal political agenda or advance a liberal interpretation of events,' and not one of the books advocated conservative political ideas. Only three books represented traditional values, and those were selected by religious colleges."

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. -- "What Students Learn and Don't Learn," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2011, page 3.

. Question

"About 75 percent of the players in the National Football League I l(NFL) are black but most of the quarterbacks are white. Why is this?"

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. -- "Quarterbacks, Intelligence, and Race," by Michael M. Hart, American Renaissance, July 2011, page 9.

. Did You Know?

"Joanne Nova of the Science and Public Policy Institute has estimated that the U.S. government spent more than $32.5 billion on climate studies between 1989 and 2009, nor does that include about $79 billion more spent for related climate change technology research, foreign aid, and tax breaks for billion more spent for related climate change "green energy" (solar and wind). For deception on that scale, one might think they will be punished at some point, but it will likely be years more before those responsible for the global warming fraud will stand before the bar of justice, if ever."

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. -- "Will Warmists Face Justice for Their Deceptions?" by Alan Caruba, The DeWeese Report, January 2012, page 7.

Factoid

"Obama wants to put more money into the notoriously useless program called Head Start, and he increased its annual funding in 2009 by nearly $3 billion. U.S. taxpayers have given Head Start $166 billion of taxpayers' money since 1965 despite many studies proving that it was mostly wasted, did not give poor kids a head start, and any gains made while kids were in Head Start disappeared within a couple of years. [. . .] If we look at the class that graduated from the public schools in 2009, we find that we spent over $151,000 per student to bring him from the first to the twelfth grade. That's nearly three times as much (adjusted for inflation) as we spent on the graduating class of 1970. Despite that massive spending, overall achievement has stagnated or declined. The gaps between minority and white students are unchanged in science and only slightly narrowed in reading and math."

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. -- "Public School Spending's Simple Solution," by Phyllis Schlafly, The Phyllis Schlafly Report, April 2011, page 4.

Sad Item

"The student yearbook at Arkansas' Russellville Middle School caused quite a stir this year for featuring a list of the 'Top Five Worst People of All Time.' The yearbook list included the following names: Adolph Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Charles Manson, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney. [. . .] So far, disciplinary measures for those who allowed this to occur have not been announced."

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. -- "Squeaky Chalk," by Deborah Lambert, Campus Report, July 2011, pages 3-2.