{"id":12304,"date":"2010-07-28T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12304"},"modified":"2010-07-28T13:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T18:39:06","slug":"speaking-of-fact-checking-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12304","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Of Fact-Checking, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get it &#8211; the &#8220;elite&#8221; of the regional left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/ericblack\/2010\/07\/28\/20045\/tenther_tom_emmer_meet_tenther_tom_jefferson\">has the victorian vapours <\/a>that some &#8220;Tenthers&#8221; would suggest that local pre-emption of federal laws, to say nothing of secession, might be legitimate manifestations of popular revulsion at government overreach.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; does DFLer Matt Entenza&#8217;s plan to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/entenza.com\/news_and_events\/recent_news\/detail\/2010-07-entenza-campaign-releases-new-ad-rip\">get rid of No Child Left Behind<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; a federal program &#8211; mean that he is the moral equal of a slave-owner?<\/p>\n<p>It gets hard to follow these people.<\/p>\n<p>(Note:\u00a0 I oppose NCLB too &#8211; but not the same reasons Entenza does.\u00a0 The teachers unions hate NCLB because it holds them accountable for their failures; I oppose it because, among other things, it holds them accountable for the wrong things)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We get it &#8211; the &#8220;elite&#8221; of the regional left has the victorian vapours that some &#8220;Tenthers&#8221; would suggest that local pre-emption of federal laws, to say nothing of secession, might be legitimate manifestations of popular revulsion at government overreach. So &#8211; does DFLer Matt Entenza&#8217;s plan to &#8220;get rid of No Child Left Behind&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-education","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions\/12305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}