WHEN SKIN COLOR DOESN'T COUNT, anyone can be a minority. Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee (great-great-great grandmother); Barack Obama is white (mother); Rita Hayworth is Hispanic (father), so given my 'Heinz 57' variety background, I can be any damned minority I want to be.

TEXAS puts Romney over the top; clinches GOP nomination.

DANIEL J. MITCHELL: Mock them. Again, again, and again.

MORNING EXAMINER: Private vs Public Equity.

THOMAS SOWELL on education and 'meaningful work'.

"Education" is a word that covers a lot of very different things, from vital, life-saving medical skills to frivolous courses to absolutely counterproductive courses that fill people with a sense of grievance and entitlement, without giving them either the skills to earn a living or a realistic understanding of the world required for a citizen in a free society.

The lack of realism among many highly educated people has been demonstrated in many ways.

When I saw signs in Yellowstone National Park warning visitors not to get too close to a buffalo, I realized that this was a warning that no illiterate farmer of a bygone century would have needed. No one would have had to tell him not to mess with a huge animal that literally weighs a ton, and can charge at you at 30 miles an hour.

The dangers that a lack of realism can bring to many educated people are completely overshadowed by the dangers to a whole society created by the unrealistic views of the world promoted in many educational institutions.

It was painful, for example, to see an internationally renowned scholar say that what low-income young people needed was "meaningful work." But this is a notion common among educated elites, regardless of how counterproductive its consequences may be for society at large, and for low-income youngsters especially.

What is "meaningful work"?

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CLIMATE 'DENIERS' winning the war. But the truth will finally prevail.

MEMORIES: The Old Lady in Black.

MEMORIAL DAY 2012

Stamford, Connecticut.

THE GRADUATION SPEECH you'll never hear (but need to).

REGULATION: America's Real Climate and Environmental Crisis.

IT'S BEGINNING to look a lot like Christmas Carter.

But let's not get overconfident.

More.

U.S. EV MAKERS should adopt a cell-phone sales model. Sell a service plan and coverage area; then give the car away for free. Cute.

LATEST EXAMPLE OF LIBERAL INTOLERANCE: Columnist Calls Black Conservatives 'Animals'. Alfonzo Rachel strikes back.

THIS could happen to you. I blame liberals for allowing the functional insane out of the mental institutions.

SOMETIMES sneering is a solution.... Follow the link to Walter Russell Mead's post:

Between the American housing bubble, the European meltdown and the climate disaster, it almost begins to look as if the Establishment consists mostly of overpaid, egotistical blowhards.

Mock them.

E. J. DIONNE: Conservatives don't care about community, liberals do. Sure, as long as they're caring with other peoples' money. Powerline has more here.

SHORT ANSWER, YES. Is the Obama campaign really incompetent? As is the Obama administration.

POOR TINGLES: the thrill just won't go away.

PUBLIC POLICY QUESTION: Is it okay to steal? To me, it's the wrong question since the theft has already occurred. The right question is "What are we going to do about it?"