REDRAWING THE MAP OF EUROPE

The Economist has an interesting idea--what if countries could move like people?

PEOPLE who find their neighbours tiresome can move to another neighbourhood, whereas countries can’t. But suppose they could. Rejigging the map of Europe would make life more logical and friendlier.

DEATH IN THE CLASSROOM

Student dies in con law class!! A case of overstudy.

2010 HEALTH CARE BILL

This report was given to Kathleen Sebelius a week before the vote but kept from the public until recently. Now that it is out, it raises troubling questions about the real cost and impact of the Obama health care program. Medicare and Medicaid costs will increase significantly. And there is the unknown -- how many companies will drop health care coverage?

The view from the WSJ.

Rationing? Obama's budget director speaks.

Small businesses have not incentives to grow and create jobs under the Obama health care plan.

ALLEN WEST ON ISLAM

From YouTube.

STUDENT PAPER

From a paper on eugenics and the Holocaust: ". . .was done to the millions of innocent people weather Jew or Genital." Maybe Genital does work for Gentile in some weird way. . .

SOUTH PARK MUHAMMAD INCIDENT

Ross Douthat opinion piece.

NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR GIVES ANTI-SEMITIC JOKE AT BRIEFING

From Yid with Lid -- they have the C-Span account. It was removed from the White House transcript.

A CALL FOR "C" STUDENTS?

So there are too many "A" students, heh?

America has made the mistake of letting the A student run things. It was A students who briefly took over the business world during the period of derivatives, credit swaps, and collateralized debt obligations. We’re still reeling from the effects. This is why good businessmen have always adhered to the maxim: “A students work for B students.” Or, as a businessman friend of mine put it, “B students work for C students—A students teach.”

NEW IRANIAN WEAPON

Iran is not only going nuclear, but this unmanned speedboat strikes me as a potential threat to any US warship in the Persian Gulf. And it is armed with a Russian torpedo.

A GLOBALIZED ECONOMY

The international economic impact of the Iceland volcano.

2009 OBAMA TAX RETURN

The NYT lists the charitable giving of the Obamas. They gave away over $300,000 plus the Nobel Peace Prize money. Churches got very little of their charitable giving. Most of their $5.6 million income came from book royalties.

GLENN BECK

From the 4/20/2010 broadcast: "History repeats itself." He better stay in broadcasting.

TEA PARTY VIOLENCE

I want to start bookmarking links on this issue. A liberal Democrat wanted to remind me about the horrible, angry, violent tea partiers -- "The anger of man does not achieve the righteous life that God desires." (James 1:20) This is a great verse. But what struck me so far is that most of the violence I have read that has occurred at tea parties is a result of attacks on tea party protestors by leftists or disgruntled Democrats. I have read about tea partiers being egged (recent Boston tea party from Boston Herald), faced with false charges of racism, attacked by SEIU goons, beaten up for wearing a Palin button, and the list could go on. The worse thing I have read about the tea partiers is based on the signs they have carried. . .but then there have been accusations that these people were liberal Democrat infiltrators seeking to discredit the tea partiers. So over the coming months I hope to be able to document this issue.

From Politico: New Orleans Assault

Frank Rich apology.

"Double-Standard on Rhetoric" from Commentary.

SCANDALS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

Maureen Dowd on the sexual abuse scandals racking the Roman Catholic Church.

The storm within the church strikes at what every Catholic fears most. We take our religion on faith. How can we maintain that faith when our leaders are unworthy of it?”

But I am afraid much the same could be said of many Protestant churches.

I have always wondered why the Bush administration did not cite a number of sources to support its statement that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to rebut Democrat charges that none were ever found. I had read Sada's book and thought that you just can't dismiss his claim that Saddam had transferred weapons of mass destruction to Syria as irrelevant. It's all Rove's fault.

Why wasn't the Bush administration citing Gen. James Clapper, the Director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, who said that satellite imagery proved conclusively that shortly before the war's outbreak, Iraq had transferred its weapons of mass destruction to Syria? Why wasn't it quoting Gen. Georges Sada, deputy chief of Saddam's air force, or Gen. Moshe Ya'alon, Israel's chief-of-staff, both of whom also claimed that Saddam's weapons had been transferred to Syria? Why was it so tongue-tied, so unsure of itself, so unwilling to answer its critics? Didn't anybody in the White House realize that if the Democrats' charges went unanswered, they would fatally undermine the entire case for the war?