The multicultural apologists for America's past are tolerable as long as they just shoot their mouths off once in a while, then slink away to wallow in the guilt they so crave. But sometimes they get out of hand:
Protesters descended Tuesday on Condit Elementary School in Claremont, tersely arguing over the construction-paper pilgrim and Native American costumes worn by kindergartners at a decades-old Thanksgiving tradition. Police were called to the school when tensions rose.
"Lost cause" update, in a Detroit Free Press interview with Harry Reid:
Q: With more Democrats in the Senate and the House and a Democrat in the White House, how do you see congressional efforts playing out on such issues as health care and immigration?
Just what we need -- more encouragement for the "Ah know mah rahts" yahoos:
A new informational video on the Indiana Supreme Court's Web site is intended to help people who want to represent themselves in court.
The 46-minute video, "Family Matters: Choosing to Represent Yourself in Court," is aimed at helping people represent themselves in cases such as divorces, mortgage foreclosures, protective orders and small claims.
This is a "Saturday Night Live" skit waiting to happen, isn' it?
After being skewered by Congress and lampooned on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," the CEOs of Detroit's three automakers may end up making their return trip to Washington by car as they seek a federal bailout.
Ouch. Zogby did a poll right after the election that found Americans don't really trust the media and that Republicans are more distrustful than Democrats -- big surprise. Here's the distressing part:
Nearly 80% of respondents consider national television news to be unreliable and 84% consider radio to be unreliable.
According to 37.6% of those surveyed, news sources on the Internet are considered to be the most reliable
Indiana University has demonstrated how to beat the rap: Slap your own wrist, then no one else will have to:
Lori Drew seems like a pretty despicable person. For her part in the hoax that led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide, she deserves eternal condemnation. But it was clear that she didn't really violate the law. She was cruel, thoughtless and heartless, yes, but not a criminal. The prosecuting attorney in Missouri said as much when he declined to prosecute. But U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien didn't want to let her "get away with it," so succumbed to the Al Capone/O.J. Simpson Syndrome -- if we can't get her for that, we'll get her for something.
You know times are tough when you can't even afford to die:
So, like a lot of family members faced with funeral expenses, especially in these tough financial times, Mrs. Pickett was taken aback at the cost of laying her mother to rest.
"A very, very simple cremation, no urn, just a plastic box, guest book, memorial cards," she says, listing the expenses, which she tried to keep low.
My first impression is that people like Gail Collins are delusional and should be under lock and key in an asylum somewhere, given all they are willing to ignore, not the least of which are the requirements of the Constitution, the incredible logistic necessities of the intricate transition process, the safety and well-being of the United States and common sense.
Don't you hate a certain kind of snitch? Not the witness who cooperates with police and helps bring a criminal to justice. Not the whistleblower who brings government corruption to light. I mean the petty kind of snitch who does it out of pure meanness. The goody two-shoes who was always running to the principal's office. The office troublemaker who listens in on conversations, then tattles to the boss. The neighbor who tries to win a running dispute by calling code enforcment.
I haven't read "the Perks of Being a Wallflower," the epistolary novel of teen angst from the 1990s, so I have no idea how good it is. It got a four-and-a-half star rating from the 1,269 amazon.com readers who reviewed it, but Publishers Weekly was a little snippy, describing it as a "trite coming of age novel" with a protagonist it is hoped will eventually find a suitable girlfriend and "increase his vocabulary."
Twenty states require teens to have 50 hours of driving practice before they get a license, and Indiana is one of only 10 states that have no practice requirements at all. So this seems reasonable:
Teenagers would be required to complete at least 50 hours of supervised driving practice and wait longer before getting an Indiana driver's license under a proposed bill unveiled by lawmakers Monday.
Police run into some classy people:
An Evansville man being arrested on accusations of public intoxication and disorderly conduct received a new charge when he allegedly offered to buy the arresting officers dinner if they would let him go.
In Forbes, Reihan Salam, an associate editor of The Atlantic, has a nice write-up on Mitch Daniels as one of a long line of "sober Republican pragmatists" from which Indiana has benefited. Depending on what the landscape looks like in 2012, such a common-sense conservative could even be a good match in a run against Barack Obama:
Suddenly, cash is back. Shoppers are planning on cutting back on Christmas this year. And when they do buy:
A shift to cash is one of the changes in consumer behavior that has emerged since the financial meltdown that could depress consumer spending this holiday season and affect shoppers' habits long afterward. Analysts think Americans are likely to stick with buying only what they can afford, just as their parents or grandparents did after the Great Depression.
Barack Obama may be a believer in public education, but his support goes only so far:
It is the Quaker ethos that is the most striking feature of Sidwell Friends School, the one chosen by President-elect Obama for his daughters Sasha and Malia. A sense of community, equality and friendship runs through every classroom: children are encouraged to strive for their best, but to value above all their relations with each other and their place in the school family.
Does John Madden really say anything? I don't mean ever -- he always has interesting thoughts on football, as here, where he talks about what it was like to coach a lot of characters on the Oakland team:
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In case you don't already have enough to worry about:
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - People in a vast seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States would face catastrophic damage if a major earthquake struck there and should ensure that builders keep that risk in mind, a government report said on Thursday.
