The entrenched political class seems scared to death of Scott Walker. But he survives every bit of dirt they try to throw at him. So now they're going to ridiculous lengths to smear him. Did you know that -- gasp! -- he is not a college graduate!
Like we've gotten such great government from all the college-educated geniuses we've been electing:
Dear Lord in Heaven, haven't we suffered enough with two terms?
Our editorial page has been hard on Gov. Mike Pence both for his Common Core efforts and his negotiating with the Obama administration on Medicaid expansion. Our general gripe has been the usual conservative one -- that he seems to be trying to have it both ways, speaking one way and actually acting another way. So in the interest of fairness, I feel I should call your attention to this George Will column in which he offers praise for Pence on both issues.
On Common Core:
"The CBS Morning News" today had a tribute to Bob Simon, the CBS foreign reporter and longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent, who did Wednesday night in a car accident in New York City. It featured news clips from his long career, and it was impossible not to appreciate how fearless he was in pursuit of a story. He had reported from just about every war zone there was, starting with Vietnam and including Iraq, where he was captured and tortured for 40 days:
When science and religion collide. Or maybe it's when they intersect:
But the science was supposed to be settled!
Go kick butt, Mr. President, but not too hard, OK?
The White House will ask Congress to approve military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that bans “enduring offensive ground operations.”
Administration officials briefed lawmakers on Tuesday about the emerging language, which is intended to win over Republicans.
I think this is what we call a "done deal":
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained Monday in a stinging dissent to the court's refusal to block the start of same-sex marriages in Alabama.
I was taken to task recently by an acquaintance for saying I find listening to President Obama pointless since I don't believe a single thing he says. I now await an apology:
Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod writes in a new book, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.
The thought police are out in force:
Dozens of posters plastered across the University of Michigan caution students not to say things that might hurt others’ feelings, part of a new “Inclusive Language Campaign” at the state’s flagship public university that cost $16,000 to implement.
In a moment of weakness or temporary insanity yesterday, I found myself watching "Reliable Sources" on CNN (I know, I know, what the hell was I thinking?) and discovered a panel of news "experts" talking about the Lyin' Brian scandal. (It is a measure of their cluelessness that, three-quarters of the way into a show devotedy exclusively to the Brian Williams sagay, one of them wondered how such trivial stories become such hot topics today.) To a person, the panel members espoused some version of this theory: We should be careful not to judge him hastily.
Jeb Bush has said some incredible things about immigration, and it is fair to say, as this headline does, that they "shock conservatives." This may be the most astonishing remark of all:
Other comments included that Bush declared that "it's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties."
Sometimes the lameness of an apology tells us more about someone's character than the transgression being apologized for does:
WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.
In the U.S., the country that made the hamburger a global icon of American fast-food cuisine, beef is about to fall another spot on the meat scale.
In the previous post, I talked about "herd immunity." That doesn't work just with flu:
From the experience in Illinois and around the country, a relatively small number of armed people can similarly reduce the risk of crime — even for those who aren’t armed.
You know I appreciate Rand Paul's libertarian instincts, but this is just stupid:
“I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.”
Every teenager should be required to work a grubby job:
I believe internships and travel are enriching and can help young people build their visions of the world and place in it, and my children have experienced both. But they aren’t a substitute for a grubby job with an unreasonable boss and an inflexible schedule. This too is part of the real world. Nobody wants to hire an attorney or brain surgeon and find out their case is his first real job.
Yeah, I saw it, that jaw-droppingly dumb play that ended the Super Bowl:
Have we really become a nation of scaredy cat wusses?
