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Dave, this is the picture-perfect portrait of the hopeless and squandering and self-congratulatory official esteem I saw coming in the State of the Union when the New York Times bestowed upon me their Most Unusual Conservative Criticism Award. How many of these kids at our Thomas Jefferson Institutes of Warp Drive Studies can recite any of this redheaded stranger’s famous lines, or conduct an educated conversation about what they might mean? For the sake of our culture — that little thing called Western Civilization, which will unfortunately not be salvaged by adopting Chinese and Indian levels of technocratic proficiency — the Parkland kids should put their Presidentially-plumped math and science skills to good use — and build themselves a time machine.

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