The Chess University of Dupont Circle
Mahmoud returns home as a hero after his Columbia visit. Gateway
“It’s difficult when you change the school’s culture,” said Columbus Manor Principal Sandy Robertson. Illinois school eliminates Christmas and Halloween to be sensitive to Moslems. Why don't we simply expect Moslems to be sensitive to us?
Re-thinking the Vietnam Era. Stillwell reports on a conference at Hillsdale College. (h/t, neoneo)
Brodhead apologizes. Powerline. Perhaps the board insisted?
More on how Affirmative Action harms minorities. It's not polite to say so, however.
Do not read this link, advises Small Dead Lemmings.
More on how ethanol is driving up the cost of food.
"I really think that if tobacco and coffee were newly discovered and brought back by U.S. troops, they'd be put in Schedule 1 by the geniuses who want to run our lives." Classical Values rants on Khat and drug laws in general.
Another rant: Wizbang on SCHIP:
The expansion of S-CHIP is the ultimate, literal expression of the "nanny state." We don't trust each other (and, by extension and definition, ourselves) to take care of our children, so we want the government (also, by extension and definition) everyone else to do it for us.
Global warming will eat your brain. Jules
Burkean Reflections takes on Glenn Greenwald in his Blog Watch. I don't read Greenwald because I do not think he is a truth-seeker. A partisan, low-life hack.
Photo: Gwynnie's decoy shack.
