ARE UNIVERSITY ETHNIC STUDIES DEPARTMENTS RUNNING THE COUNTRY? Victor Davis Hanson thinks so.

William F. Buckley famously said: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard." He was right.

DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN'S assault on a student reporter deserves censure. No, it deserves criminal charges - at a minimum.

UPDATE: more here.

WITH GULF CRISIS, Obama in over his head. Ya think?

Link from Instapundit.

SMART CARS aren't so smart. And this is a commercial company running the program. Can you imagine what it would be like if the government were involved?

OBAMA TO BP: speed up the pace or we'll, ... we'll hold our breath until we turn blue.

MAN ARRESTED for saving life. Making government look bad one example at a time.

Link from Instapundit.

BACK SOON: on travel; blogging will be intermittent. Back in full swing in a week or so.

SARAH PALIN: “Mr. President, please do not punish the American public with any new energy tax in response to this tragedy. Just because BP and federal regulators screwed up that doesn’t mean the rest of us should get punished with higher taxes at the pump and attached to everything petroleum products touch.”

As I’m sure Mrs. Palin knows, that’s the liberal way: always punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty.

AVOID STRAYING FROM THE LIBERAL PLANTATION.

Consider Cuban refugees.
In Kennedy's time, liberals embraced them. Today, not so much.
Cuban refugees included too many successful businessmen.

Don Surber nails it: don’t be successful.

BILLBOARD OF THE DAY: possibly a photoshop, but still a winner.

PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE or stupidity principle? You make the call.

WHAT WOULD YOU RATHER CAP? The Gulf oil spill in 5,000 feet of water, or the gusher known as Rosie O’Donnell?

WHO KILLED SCHOLARSHIP? Two nuggets of wisdom from columnist Paul Greenberg:

[S]cholars seem to have been largely replaced by educators, just as learning has been replaced by expertise, teachers by facilitators, and education by educanto.

And:

"It never entered (our) minds to dumb down the curriculum." But that's just what happens when graduating students becomes more important than educating them.

Read it all.

VICTIMS do not make good leaders.

NO FEAR: Obama “may be walking loudly, but he is carrying a very small stick.”

The President should be afraid - very afraid - for his future.

JUST DO IT and ask permission later.

Link from Instapundit.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: vacation at Club ICE.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE: Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.

ACADEMIC ASTROTURF: the “Cry Wolf” project.

Jeez. They can’t even write their own straightforward propaganda proposals. I guess it’s all that academic nuance they’re burdened with.

UPDATE: “By soliciting “paid activists” to create research papers that are intentionally designed to silence opposing viewpoints, they have undermined the political system and manipulated the governmental policy making process. And in the meantime, they’ve also implicated all of academia in the manufacturing of their propaganda.” Read it all.

MORE: It’s now “Academia-gate”.

UNION BULLYING: A retired U.S. Marine who runs a high school ROTC program in Worcester [MA] faces the boot for refusing to pay local [teachers] union dues.