Clueless Klein, Or, Why Congress Recalls A Toilet

by Smitty
Reboot Congress points to a particularly ignorant 17th Amendment outing by Ezra Klein, who either cannot or will not explore the reasons why giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys (O’Rourke).
Congress these days recalls a toilet. Not the bowl full of the unmentionable, but [...]

Barack Obama Elementary School

Via Inside Charm City:
The first school in the D.C. area named after the current president opens Monday morning as the school year begins in Prince George’s County.
Barack Obama Elementary School opens its doors in Upper Marlboro, Md., for the first time Monday. The school is being touted as being an environmentally friendly “green” school.
Yeah. The [...]

The Future of Conservatism

I’m at the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference, where YAF vice president Patrick X. Coyle explains everything:

Will have further updates, but you can follow the conference on Twitter at #NCSC10, and there is also a live Webcast.
UPDATE: Now a few photos from the conference:

A young conservative activist takes notes on a lecture by Princeton University [...]

File No. 100-360217

For those who missed the weekend’s Howard Zinn FBI files story — or who prefer a straight narrative account — my latest column at The American Spectator is “The Case Against Howard Zinn”:
Howard Zinn was teaching a class, but he wasn’t yet a professor and his classroom wasn’t at a university. It was late 1951, [...]

FBI Files Reveal Historian Howard Zinn Lied to Hide CPUSA Membership

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document drop on the Left’s favorite anti-American historian:
On July 30, 2010, the FBI released one file with three sections totaling 423 pages on Howard Zinn, a best selling radical historian, teacher, playwright, and political activist. . . .
In 1949, the FBI opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn (FBI File # 100-360217). [...]

Matthew Yglesias: ‘Got Mine, Jack’

Harvard alumnus declares that getting into Harvard is no big deal, at least for poor white kids:
People who are plausible admission candidates at Harvard and don’t quite make the cut end up at Columbia or Penn. People who don’t get into Berkeley go to UCLA. And they all end up fine. There’s just absolutely no need to [...]

Surprise: Federal Judge Upholds University’s ‘No Christians Allowed’ Policy

The limits of “diversity”:
A federal judge has ruled in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its graduate program in school counseling over her belief that homosexuality is morally wrong. . . .
U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh dismissed [Julea] Ward’s lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University. She was removed from the [...]

Surprise: Police Say ‘Walt Whitman Devotee’ Molested Teenage Boy Students

Wow, who could have ever suspected he was into twinks?
Kevin Ricks was a gregarious, well-traveled English teacher at Osbourn High School, a Walt Whitman devotee who was so popular that a photo of him in class was chosen to fill the opening page of the yearbook. A writer and photographer himself, Ricks would walk the [...]

Did I Mention That My Daughter Has Made Dean’s List Every Semester?

Fortunately, because I’m not rich, there was never any danger that my daughter would darken the door of Ross Douthat’s alma mater:
“Last year, two Princeton sociologists, Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford, published a book-length study of admissions and affirmative action at eight highly selective colleges and universities. Unsurprisingly, they found that the admissions process seemed to [...]

Jews and Israel: Death by Relativism

Frank Luntz quoted by Evelyn Gordon at Commentary:
“The problem that I see is that so many parents in the Jewish community taught their kids not to judge. I’m going to say something that’s a little bit ideological, but I find that kids on the right are far more likely to stand up for Israel than [...]

Worst Side Effect of Recession? Endless Plague of Perpetual Grad Students

OK, this is a pet peeve of mine from way back. When I was in college in the late ’70s and early ’80s, there was a distinct group of hippie leftovers who hung around the campus pub a lot while, supposedly, working on their master’s degrees.
They didn’t seem particularly smart or studious. Rather, they struck me as having fallen in love with the student [...]

D Is for ‘Dumb’ and ‘Detroit’

“Otis Mathis was a D-student in high school, went to Wayne State University in a program for the academically unqualified, sued for his degree because he couldn’t pass a basic English test, became a community organizer, and eventually was unanimously elected President of the School Board . . .”

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