P.J. O'Rourke on Public Schools: End Them, Don’t Mend Them

Enough, however, of outrageous statistics. Let’s generate some pure outrage. Here’s my proposal: Close all the public schools. Send the kids home. Fire the teachers. Sell the buildings. Raze the U.S. Department of Education, leaving not one brick standing upon another and plow the land where it stood with salt.

“Wait a minute,” the earnest liberal says, “we’ve got swell public schools here in Flourishing Heights. The kids take yoga. We just brought in a law school placement coordinator at the junior high. The gym has solar panels on the roof. Our Girls Ultimate Frisbee team is third in the state. The food in the cafeteria is locally grown. And the vending machines dispense carrots and kiwi juice.”

Close them anyway.

End Them, Don’t Mend Them | The Weekly Standard

P.J. O'Rourke on Obama's "Accomplishments" at age 34

From the The Weekly Standard Magazine:

He embarked on an urban scam called “community organizing.” Then he obtained a large sum for writing a book about his life and accomplishments at age 34 when he didn’t have any accomplishments and hadn’t led much life. He wormed his way into politics with all its perks and benefits. And now his big house, his stretch limousine, and his luxury jet are paid for out of the public treasury.

P.J. O'Rourke, Our Kind of Class Warfare

P.J. O'Rourke: Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards

P.J. O'Rourke on Democrats

"Democrats hate Democrats most of all. Witness the policies that Democrats have inflicted on their core constituencies, resulting in vile schools, lawless slums, economic stagnation, and social immobility. Democrats will do anything to make sure that Democratic voters stay helpless and hopeless enough to vote for Democrats. [emphasis mine]" They Hate Our Guts

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P.J. O'Rourke on His New Book

P.J. O'Rourke on Economics

Excerpted from Don't Vote - It Just Encourages the Bastards:

"The free market is not a creed or an ideology that political conservatives, libertarians, and Ayn Rand acolytes want Americans to take on faith. The free market is simply a measurement. The free-market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That's all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. Liberals and leftists think we can."

P.J. O'Rourke's new book can be purchased here. He can be seen live and in person in Washington D.C. on Wednesday November 3, 2010. Oh, and it's absolutely free. For more information about this event click here.