A follow-up to this story : It seems Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson was a lot more directly involved than she has admitted in funneling scholarship money meant for poor children to her own relatives: Letters bearing Eddie Bernice Johnson’s signature ask that scholarship money be sent directly to her grandsons Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson apparently asked the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to send scholarship checks directly to her two grandsons and two…
An Arizona court has upheld a restraining order against former Minuteman (and Minuteman co-founder) Chris Simcox, granted in April to his wife Alena Simcox and their children, after she alleged that he made several threats against his family and the police. The court determined last week that the restraining order should continue “in full force,” according to The Washington Times . Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner J. Justice McQuire writes that “there is reasonable cause to believe that the defendant has committed an act of domestic violence within the last year,” and that “good cause exists to continue the order of protection in this case.” …
Did you hear the one about the guy that ran up a $2.5 trillion debt in two years, but said, “but, but, but it’s Bush’s fault…” After having done some research, it turns out that there is a local chapter of Debtors Anonymous in Washington DC that President Obama might want to check out. The only problem is that the first step to recovery is to admit you have a problem. Unfortunately for …
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This post is not about crime, or violence, or racism, or even race. This is a post about the ridiculous subconscious biases that permeate the way the media covers news. Although this exact sort of absurdity has been pointed out again and again, the purveyors of the sort of obliviousness displayed below still are afforded positions of respect among too much of the voting populace. And so we must hit them again and expose who they are. This story in today’s Washington Post is about a school in Philadelphia that is apparently 70% black, 18% Asian, and 12% unidentified “other…
(Ilya Somin) At Econlog, GMU economist Bryan Caplan and Princeton economist Bill Dickens have been debating the signaling model of education. See this post for Bryan’s most recent contribution and links to earlier parts of the debate. Bryan argues that a large part of our education spending (perhaps as much as 80%) is socially wasteful “signaling.” It is a kind of arms race where students try to get more education than than their rivals in order to signal their conscientiousness, conformity, and intelligence to potential …
I honestly can’t tell . Reynolds’s latest Examiner column is titled Who is responsible for Warmabomber’s violent agenda? To me, the answer is obvious: the person responsible for the Discovery Channel gunman’s agenda is the gunman himself: James Lee. But Reynolds argues that some responsibility lies with environmentalists, for their “eliminationist rhetoric.” I want to believe that Professor Reynolds’s column is a grand piece of ironic performance art, in which he turns “eliminationist rhetoric” arguments on the left, by holding the left to its own standards. I want to believe it, and I think I do. But I just can’t tell for…
**Written by Doug Powers Todd Palin can take down the fence , at least until this guy moves back in next spring : Palin’s neighbor of three months on Wasilla’s Lake Lucille, author Joe McGinniss, is packing his bags and notebooks and leaving Sunday for his home in Massachusetts to write the book he has been researching on the former governor and GOP vice presidential candidate. The book’s angle is apparent: Evil Sarah and her henchmen have such…
The Boston Globe, long notorious as promoters of global warming doom and gloom — see Ross Gelbspan, for example – sometimes get embarrassed by the actual climate. On “The Green Blog,” the Globe’s Beth Daley projected that a “global warming double punch” could make Hurricane Earl much worse for Massachusetts — except when it actually passed by, it turned out to be a dud for Bostonians and it could be watched on the coast with a glass of wine: The large waves, storm surge, and…
Marco Rubio’s father, Mario Rubio, has died from complications of lung cancer at Baptist Hospital in Miami. He was 83 years old. Rubio the younger released the following statement on his father’s passing: “My father knew hard work and struggle from very early in his life. His mother died when he was only 9 years old. The day after his mother was…
-By Warner Todd Huston The L.A. Times has been publishing a great series about how the city’s schools have been dropping the ball on education. Specifically, the Times points out that the L.A. schools district has had at its disposal stats that could have helped it to engineer a better education policy for its students but has ignored these stats. Why have they ignored these stats? Fear of unions. The Times has a database of the effectiveness of nearly 6,000 L.A…
