{"id":444,"date":"2007-08-27T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=444"},"modified":"2007-08-27T12:23:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T18:23:53","slug":"monday-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Monday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Explain to me the difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/122165.html\">this<\/a> and plain old robbery.<\/li>\n<li>The administration now thinks the President&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/122155.html\">approval ratings<\/a> are a national security issue.  Who knew? They also don&#8217;t think FOIA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/122147.html\">applies to them<\/a>. If these guys were Democrats, the Right Wing would be screaming.<\/li>\n<li>Want to know why our education system is broken? How about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-897654~Rank_privileges__D_C__schools_to_pay_68_idle_teachers__staff__5_4_million.html\">$5.4 million<\/a> to teachers who aren&#8217;t working. I have a big post on education coming up. I can&#8217;t wait until these idiots are running our healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>Is pre-K education a panacea? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/08\/24\/the-myth-of-pre-k\/\">Nope<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always thought that kids don&#8217;t really start learning until they&#8217;re about five years old or so. But this isn&#8217;t about education; it&#8217;s about getting the government into their lives as early as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Our budget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/08\/23\/finally-some-not-so-bad-news-on-the-budget\/\">only grew 3%<\/a> this year. I love gridlock!<\/li>\n<li>The teachers&#8217; union are spending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/08\/22\/trouble-in-utah-with-a-capital-t\/\">$3 million<\/a> to stop vouchers. Why are they so afraid of school choice?<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explain to me the difference between this and plain old robbery. The administration now thinks the President&#8217;s approval ratings are a national security issue. Who knew? They also don&#8217;t think FOIA applies to them. If these guys were Democrats, the Right Wing would be screaming. Want to know why our education system is broken? How &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-7a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}