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ACORN: The Pretense of Caring — Anita Moncrief

“Joe the Plumber” sues over Ohio records probe — AP

Deception at Core of Obama Plans — Charles Krauthammer, RealClearPolitics

Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years — Stephen Moore, WSJ.com

The night we waved goodbye to America… our last best hope on Earth — Peter Hitchens, UK Daily Mail

This article is quite melancholy, but hard to argue with.

An excerpt from “To Sail beyond the Sunset”, by Robert A. Heinlein

“The America of my time is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy, in which every adult may vote and in which all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. Once a [...]

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican — Frances Rice, Human Events

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.

Want Real Change? Quit Nominating Lawyers! — Victor Davis Hanson, Townhall.com

The List: The World’s Most Dangerous Gangs — Foreign Policy Magazine

Sweet Seventeen — Ari, The Edge of the American West

“On this day in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, providing for the direct election of Senators…”

Wisconsin 2004: “The reports of more ballots cast than voters recorded were found to be true.” — Jim Geraghty, The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

See Also: Wisconsin’s Voter Fraud Report Ought To Be National News

Taliban wants cell phone networks shut down at night — Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist — Jack Hitt, Wired Magazine

Bush orders new crackdown on U.S. border
— Mike Allen, Politico.com

It’s about freakin’ time. There is a lot of broken trust to be recovered in these matters. Example: The new Bush immigration enforcement plan: Color me underwhelmed — Michelle Malkin

Geeks against Jihad — Max Boot, contentions

Robbing the Rich to Give to the Richest
— Lynne Munson, Inside Higher Ed

“…Higher education endowments also are growing much faster than private foundations. The value of college and university endowments skyrocketed 17.7 percent last year, while private foundation assets increased 7.8 percent. Just 3.3 percent of the increase in academic endowments is attributable to new gifts. Most of the gain is a result of stingy, outdated endowment [...]

The 9/11 Generation
— Dean Barnett, Weekly Standard

Who The Hell Elected Helen Thomas?
— Dan Riehl, Riehl World View

Eloi for Breakfast — Bruce Moon, PajamasMedia

“Bruce Moon time-travels from breakfast with spine-chilling creatures of the future to the battlefields of the Revolutionary War and back again to remind us that keeping the peace isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be…” Read On.

Crack Golfers: Courthouse colorblindness is inability to distinguish between black, white
Frank Cagle, Metro Pulse

“…It is at once disturbing and fascinating to watch them rat each other out. Nepotism versus hidden pay raises; golf trips versus expensive dinners and $6 smoothies. It is sometimes amazing what’s revealed about government when you have two factions engaged in a blood feud. Makes you wonder what goes on when everybody is getting [...]