A fine day for the beach, but I am going to Rhode Island this morning for a couple of days of sailing.
Duke group mocks Group of 88. Here's their newspaper piece.
Tawfik Hamid on how to end Islamophobia. Exactly.
New York's Bravest lowering standards to avoid DOJ problems. Apparently literacy standards are racist. LaShawn digs into the subject. If those of African heritage really have lower average "g" than other races, as abundant studies show, it's a big problem. I remain a skeptic.
Norwegians getting rich on oil. Norway?
Git offa my lawn, kid. Synthstuff. And I really mean it.
Is Fred Thompson the Reagan Reagan? Fred visits New England.
Is Obama the liberal Reagan? RWNH
The mess in Lebanon, thanks to Al Quaida. A damn shame, because it could be and once was a fine country.
Top execs face pay crunch. Stockholders must be deciding that enough is enough.
Sarko wants to eliminate "tu" for profs. Right on! He is demanding some respect from Iran, too.
Should home ownership be the American dream? Yes, as a defence against inflation. But if not? Tigerhawk. I think it's more sentimental and historical. Not to mention that it is forced savings.
Valerie Plame? Ho hum. But she did push her husband forward, after all. Just One Minute. That is not what she said.
The MSM refuses to discuss Al Quaida and terrorist torture. Thjey would rather talk about panties on the head.
Prediction: Immigration bill will pass Senate
China hopes to clean up pests and disease before the Olympics. Maybe their food, too?
Peggy Noonan's excellent piece on illegal immigration. A quote:
We should stop, slow down and absorb. We should sit and settle. We should do what you do after eating an eight-course meal. We should digest what we've eaten.
We should close our borders. We should do whatever it takes to close them tight and solid. Will that take the Army? Then send the Army. Does it mean building a wall? Then build a wall, but the wall must have doors, which can be opened a little or a lot down the road once we know where we are. Should all legal immigration stop? No. We should make a list of what our nation needs, such as engineers and nurses, and then admit a lot of engineers and nurses. We should take in what we need to survive and flourish.
As we end illegal immigration, we should set ourselves to the Americanization of the immigrants we have. They haven't only joined a place of riches, it's a place of meaning. We must teach them what it is they've joined and why it is good and what is expected of them and what is owed. We stopped Americanizing ourselves 40 years ago. We've got to start telling the story of our country again.
The photos are of International Etchells
