Maggie's Farm

The Left loves totalitarian thugs. Of course. It's the quickest way to exert power over people - for their own good, of course. That theme is just so consistent: "We must take away your freedom because we care..." and it's always implied "because we are smarter than you." Chavez threatens independent schools: Moonbattery, whence the photo on right.

Home size, 1980-today. Coyote

Things you might not know about the Duke case. Minding the Campus. h/t, Insty

I still cannot get over the fact that poor Americans have a higher standard of living than average Europeans. No Pasaran

Rudy is all over Hillary. Surber. He is the right guy to take her on. Quick, incisive, cheerful.

Oh my gosh! The US Naval Academy is run by the military! A clueless Barnard student speaks. h/t, New depths of st00pidity at Right Wing Nation)

A "good college" means nothing to me. Attack Machine. He wants results. However, a fine liberal arts education is not really an investment in one's business success: it's supposed to be an investment in your soul. America is filled with multi-millionaires who never heard of Plato, and I think that is a wonderful thing (although it's their loss). Americans, on the whole, are a practical people.

Immigration "reform": Ankle-Biting looks at the grim political reality. Meanwhile, Congress "quietly returns to immigration."

AQ in Iraq update: are they falling apart? Protein

"Sharing."   Voegli