"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
My daughter Kennedy is graduating today from Frostburg (Md.) State University with highest honors. Regular readers will remember that Kennedy got married last summer, and that she was featured in a news story about her career as an aspiring teacher.
The commencement ceremony today — and my son Jim’s high-school graduation yesterday — explains why I’m not in Atlanta for the big Herman Cain presidential campaign rally. You should hit my tip jar.
by Smitty
Why, pro-state cancer. Ba-dump bump *tsh*.
Seriously, I am enjoying the worst bandwidth challenge yet to my blogger-fu. I have paid for three different Internet providers here, all providing roughly equivalent dis-service.
The better news is that I’ve passed the halfway point on the deployment.
Everybody, please continue to support Stacy’s mad quest for blogospheric hegemony in my absence.
“It’s that simple,” he tells Neil Cavuto:
Meanwhile, The Right Scoop also has this video of Charles Krauthammer dissing Herman Cain as mere “entertainment”:
Wow. I never thought I’d see the day when I agreed more with Tucker Carlson than with Krauthammer.
Herman Cain: A Real Leader
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UPDATE: Allahpundit takes notice of Krauthammer dissing Cain.
Michael Kinsley once defined a gaffe as when a politician accidentally tells the truth. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg:
“Unfortunately there are some parents who just come from — they never had a formal education, and they don’t understand the value of education.”
Which is certainly true of “some parents,” although it is unclear whether this observation justifies the closure of 22 poorly performing schools in New York City, which is the argument Bloomberg was trying to make.
I think it might be more accurate to say that people who haven’t had much formal education are ill-equipped to judge whether or not their child’s school is doing a good job. And I think it is also true that poor people don’t have many options if their local school is doing a lousy job.
Furthermore, I’ll say this: Education is an individual achievement. You teach a class, but learning is always up to the individual student.
Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg should consult with Herman Cain, who was voted “Most Likely to Succeed” in the Archer High School Class of 1963.
Gallup reports that, for the first time ever, a majority of poll respondents favor same-sex marriage. Note the large and rapid change in opinion:
A mere 15 years ago, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by more than a 2-to-1 margin, 68% to 27%, whereas now the number is 53%-45% in support of same-sex marriage.
“The fantastical project of yesterday, which was mentioned only to be ridiculed, is today the audacious reform, and will be tomorrow the accomplished fact.”
– R.L. Dabney, 1897
The propaganda campaign which produced this revolution in public opinion will not abate or slacken. And we might suppose that, in a few more years, it will be deemed socially unacceptable — if not indeed a “hate crime” — to criticize homosexual behavior.
It’s kinda been all-Herman, all-the-time here lately, so let me update you on what’s going on with the non-Hermans:
And finally, Newt Gingrich becomes a punchline:
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled (neutral and objective) reminder to join the online grassroots army at Citizens for Cain.
That’s what Jeffrey Goldberg says, but Professor William Jacobson springs to the defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yet it is also reported that Netanyahu feels disrespected by President Obama, so that the question is, “Who dissed whom?”
All in all, this atmosphere of mutual disrespect bodes ill for prospects of Mideast peace, arousing suspicions that Obama is purposefully attempting to provoke Netanyahu, just as there are suspicions that perhaps Obama’s speech incited Palestinian unrest.
(Via Memeorandum.)