I THOUGHT SO: Indiana’s government unions paid for Democrats to flee-bag their constituents.

WHAT A SURPRISE: Children beyond the reach of bureaucrats outperform their peers.

GOVERNMENT BY DECREE: Liberals' impatience with democracy, rule of law is growing ... and must be stopped.

WHITE HOUSE floating proposal to curb contract campaign cash. I think I’d be okay with it provided all parties to a contract - including any unions - had to disclose.

ROOTS OF RACISM.

There is, to begin with, the notion of racial identity. Your garden-variety bigot is apt to argue that the differences between the races are not superficial but quite profound. He is apt to tell you each race possesses its own essential nature, its own culture and mores, and that for this reason it is best if each sticks to its own kind.

Some would call that backward. Others would call it progressive. Put a happy-face on the same sentiments and you have something like Somerville Place, a blacks-only residential floor at the University of Southern California. Says USC, "The goals of Somerville Place aim to foster an understanding of and respect for Black culture." Ahh, that. The bigot and USC might differ on whether black culture should be respected, but they agree it exists. Interesting.

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INTERESTING READ: The Floating dollar as a threat to property rights. I tend toward a simpler view: the idea of the pool lifeguard getting to decide what level of submergence constitutes “floating” is, umm ... disconcerting.

AMERICA’S ELITES have a duty to the rest of us. But notice - “the rest of us” have no duties at all.

E. J. Dionne - still stupid after all these years.

IT’S OKAY TO BE ‘UNCIVIL’ if you’re a liberal college professor. More here.

SPRING IS FINALLY HERE: the beech trees are finally showing their leaves.


Quite a difference in a bit less than two weeks.

I’M NOT BLACK; just heavily tanned.

"AMERICA IS TRULY A WONDERFUL COUNTRY. Where else would you find a female Navy officer from Reno, Nevada, commanding the destroyer USS Decatur? Did I mention that she is of South Asian origin? Oh, and let us not forget that she is a graduate of the nation’s oldest private military academy, Norwich."

Her blog is here.

ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR SMALLER GOVERNMENT: Tax compliance employs more workers than Wal-Mart, UPS, McDonalds, IBM, and Citigroup combined.

PRESIDENT WHATEVER finds things not going his way. Whatever you thought of the “great budget debate,” my sense is that Speaker Boehner is taking Sarah Palin’s advice: don’t retreat; reload.”

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THAT’S 4% PER ANNUM, over and above the normal inflation rate. Compliments of Neal Boortz.

SAVING ELECTRICITY: and, yes, the view is depressing.

HOUSE DEMOCRATS insist S&P warning means Congress should raise the debt ceiling, no strings attached.

More than half of House Democrats are seizing on news that Standard and Poor's could downgrade the United States' bond rating to make the argument that Republicans need to raise the debt limit without tying it to additional spending restraint.

"America pays its bills," said Rep. Peter Welch, (D-VT).

I would argue that the fact that the debt ceiling needs to be raised is proof that America does not pay its bills. Hence the need, not for strings, but for high tensile strength steel cables.

NO SURPRISE: Rising gasoline prices sinking Obama.

GIANT [SUPERMARKET] DISRESPECTS THE COMMUNITY by outsourcing its formerlly unionized warehousing operation. “From a union activist: ‘We fought for the consumer, who deserves to have food that comes from union workers, warehouses and distribution.’ Problem is, the food tastes the same without the union. And it probably costs less, too.”

PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS may not be the righteous voice of the virtuous proletariat, but rather a privileged group that the voters ... are getting wise to.

HOGWASH ONLY A PROGRESSIVE COULD BELIEVE: “Obama ...framing himself as the pragmatic voice in a highly charged partisan environment that could devolve into chaos without adult supervision.”