A perfect tournament for our times
The NCAA men’s college basketball tournaments begins this week, the field of 65 teams having been selected and seeded yesterday. This year, the conventional wisdom holds that the quality of the at-large teams selected to make up the numbers is poor, and that this argues against suggestions that the field be expanded to 92 [...]
The soft bigotry of low expectations, blackboard jungle edition
As I noted here, the Obama administration’s Department of Education has announced that it will crack down on “civil-rights infractions” in public schools, including alleged disparities in the disciplining of white and black students. The notion behind this initiative is that black students are disproportionately subjected to discipline they don’t deserve.
That doesn’t [...]
Grinding Away on the Coffee Party
I first heard about the infamous Coffee Party, supposedly a liberal alternative to the right leaning Tea Party movement, at Hot Air; I watched a couple of videos trying to understand what was its pont. After suffering through the rambling, pointless video promos produced by the “unwitting” founder of the Coffee Party, Annabel Park, [...]
Barack Obama cuts back Aussie trip - The Australian
BARACK Obama’s first trip to Australia as US President has been downgraded to a brief stop on his way home from Indonesia, after … no longer be accompanied by his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha. He is expected to dump a …
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Awesome video: Stupak as Braveheart stands against Obama and Pelosi
Via StandwithStupak.com (Notice the faces):
Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic Leaders have gone back on their word. They refuse to remove abortion subsidies from the healthcare bill.
Rep. Bart Stupak has steadfastly opposed these attempts to hijack healthcare reform with big bailouts for the abortion industry.
Stupak is standing strong on principle and refuses to roll over. [...]
The bottom line for Democrats who vote for the Slaughter rule
Ramesh Ponnuru cuts right to the chase in delivering the bottom line for the Democrats should they follow through with their plan to follow the Slaughter strategy; the American public will not be fooled and the Dems are essentially handing the Republicans their strategy for the 2010 elections:
Opponents of Obamacare have recently been talking about [...]
