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Monday, March 19. 2012

Monday morning links

Are we asking enough of our kids? Anthropologists don’t think so


Is Our College Students Learning Yet?


Finally somebody comes right out and says it: climate + world governance is a match made in green heaven


The Vetting - Holder 1995: We Must 'Brainwash' People on Guns


The essential dishonesty of Obama on energy policy


Will: Union business, on the taxpayers’ dime


WI Dems Punish Private Unions To Hurt Gov. Walker


How did the jury find Dharun Ravi guilty of "bias intimidation"?


In the NYT, several people consider hate crime and justice


At Marginal Rev:



There are more than 100 Indian trading posts in and around Gallup and the majority are run or owned by Palestinian-Americans, said Ed Jungbluth, Executive Director of the Gallup Convention and Visitors Bureau.



Green Fail: Massachusetts Solar Company Abandons Plant, Moves Operations to China, Taxpayers on the Hook for $50M


The Italian Tragedy


Learning from Massachusetts’ Health Care Experiment


For California's disgraced politicians, the fall hurts -- but just look where they landed


The Mainstream Media Finally Notices the Muslim Population Implosion But Still Doesn’t Get It


To create jobs, voters want to cut while Washington wants to spend


Catholic Bishops Cry Foul: Amish Are Exempt From Obamacare But Catholics Are Not


What if the Left is just one Potemkin Village after another?


Astroturf. Conservatives are too busy working to do this sort of thing


David Frum: Post-zionism is just another name for Israel hatred
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Potemkin Village - Odd, but, isn't those the kind of things they label the 'Right Wingers' do?

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit...

All the while, busing in 'voters', the 'dead pool' of waiting voters, faked voter registrations, outcry for Voter ID usage, the various groups of useful idiots, etc... kinda makes your head spin at the hypocrisy...
#1 Fred Zeppelin on 2012-03-19 11:41 (Reply)
I started helping my grandmother when she served as an election judge down South back in the '50s. I was her relief when she had to use the restroom as she was the ONLY Republican willing to serve in that capacity.

Later, in college, one of my poli sci professors encouraged us to poll watch as our community was known for shipping in voters, trading liquor and cigarettes for support and scouring the homeless shelters and hobo yards to fill in for "the dead." It was a rude awakening thanks to the viciousness. Asking for or manipulating for a vote is one thing; thuggery is evil. The Black Panthers assuring that only "the elite" vote is no surprise to me.

We need throngs of poll watchers.
#1.1 jma on 2012-03-19 13:10 (Reply)
Are we asking enough of our kids? Anthropologists don’t think so.

I was once a guest at a home in Argentina where a child of 4-5 years cleared the table of plates. He did it slowly and methodically.
#2 Gringo on 2012-03-19 13:16 (Reply)
Poll watchers--an organized nationwide group dedicated to poll watching at every single poll--but, wait--what about all those mail-in ballots they talked the Republicans into voting for, because it would save money? Now what do we do folks?
#3 apple pie on 2012-03-19 13:56 (Reply)
And the electronic ballot counting a 14-year-old showed me could be changed much as those credit card thieves steal numbers while parked in a shopping center lot? Yep, we have major opportunity for fraud, much of which is designed by bored teenagers living in far off lands.

I'd be happy for the olden days when they just switched pre-voted machines stored at morgues for the ones we thought we'd used. I think they transported them in hearses
#3.1 jma on 2012-03-19 14:42 (Reply)
re The Italian Tragedy

The Italians have lots of company. Practically every developed nation on the planet is facing the same problems.

I am very curious, and filled with dread at how it will all end.
#4 feeblemind on 2012-03-19 15:32 (Reply)
Any evidence Catholics are going to desert the Dems over the contraceptive mandate?

I'd like to have hope... but history proves me foolish for having any. Blacks still vote Democrat despite all the history, and people like Robert Byrd. Hispanics do too, despite abortion and other anti-Catholic Democrat proclivities. Both groups are basically conservative on paper in general. Women still voted for Clinton despite his piggish behavior. I guess he's cool because he forces women to need contraceptives or something.

Really we aren't too far off from mandatory abortions, and I suspect Catholics would still support Democrats if that practice became law. "They wouldn't need the mandatory abortions if it weren't for Republican budget cuts and tax breaks for the rich."

See how easy?

PS: How do Muslims vote? Conservative or Liberal?
#5 Philistine on 2012-03-19 16:39 (Reply)
I'm a fan of Notre Dame's Fighting Amish, I deserve an exemption from bambicare. Either that or because I'm declaring to be Anglican Amish -- and the government better not challenge me on my long-held, subjectively unimpeachable theological beliefs unless it wants another constitutional crisis.
#6 wirraway on 2012-03-19 18:34 (Reply)
Another tidbit about the "disgraced" major of San Jose, California. He dumped his campaign chair (and wife) in favor of a 29 year old lobbyist, who's job was to lobby the city of San Jose, whom he later married once out of office.
#7 Whitehall on 2012-03-20 15:55 (Reply)

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