Archives: 2008 March

The Washington Post reports that Ward Connerly has succeeded in placing an initiative against state action involving racial preferences on the ballot in Colorado, and is attempting to gather the signatures needed for such an initiative in Arizona, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Given his success in the very blue states of California, Washington, […]

Reader Stephen Klasing writes:
About 10 days ago, Samantha Power appeared on the radio program Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg on WGN AM in Chicago. She had already stepped down from the Obama campaign, and her appearance on the show was — ostensibly — for the purpose of promoting her book. But the […]

We learned yesterday that veterans of the United States Army and Marine Corps who have fought for their country and have been awarded the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, the Navy Cross and other decorations are too controversial to be allowed inside a public high school in Minnesota. Some of those high school students, […]

By the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others.

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Marc Ambinder argues that “there is no evidence that Barack Obama has a ‘Jewish’ problem.” Actually, he asserts this; what he argues is that Obama doesn’t have a “Jewish” problem by virtue of his association with Gen. Tony McPeak.
Even here, Ambinder’s reaasoning is questionable. He compares Obama’s association with McPeak to John […]

Gov. Ed Rendell sent the letter below to every member of the Pennsylvania Legislature today. Read the entire letter if you like, but I can summarize it for you in a couple of lines: Even though Pennsylvania is headed for tough economic times and Pennsylvanians are struggling to survive financially, the state should spend more […]