Freudian Slip? Politico Calls Cornyn 'Minority White'

From the Politico: 14 Apr 2013

Sen. Rubio, If Immigration Reform's Worth Doing, It's Worth Doing Right

"Comprehensive immigration reform" is shaping up to be the next Obamacare. By negotiating in secret, by drafting an enormously complicated bill, and by rushing passage with almost no time for public debate, the Senators who are pushing immigration reform are following the same path that divided the nation in 2009-10 and led to one of the worst expansions of federal regulation, spending and power in American history.  14 Apr 2013

Venezuelans Vote in First Post-Chavez Election

Venezuelans head to the polls Sunday in the first presidential election since the death of Hugo Chavez earlier this year. Chavez's successor, acting President Nicolas Maduro, will defend against a renewed challenge by Henrique Capriles, who lost a relatively close contest to Chavez in the fall of 2012.  13 Apr 2013

The Right to Bear Arms to Abortion Shall Not Be Infringed

In response to Gosnell and Media Bias: 12 Apr 2013

Exclusive: High School Canceled Santorum Visit Partly over Staff 'Information'

An errant email to parents suggests that the decision to disinvite former presidential candidate Rick Santorum from a visit to Grosse Pointe South High School in Michigan was likely taken at the behest of staff, not for the technical reasons cited publicly by the school's administration. 11 Apr 2013

Obama's Budget: 2014 Election Gimmick

Obama knows that the districts his party must win in 2014 are largely districts he lost in 2012. He must therefore win independents with gestures of bipartisanship, without cuts that depress base turnout. The president's new budget is tailor-made for that political task. But it leaves for future presidents, and future generations, the task of paying for its provisions. 11 Apr 2013

MSNBC's Harris-Perry Defends the Constitution... South Africa's Constitution

I've noted before that President Barack Obama and much of the left--especially the legal and academic left--envy the new South African Constitution, particularly its Bill of Rights, which includes broad guarantees of equality and socioeconomic rights including "health care, and to education, and to decent housing, and to quality food at all times." 10 Apr 2013

NPR Tries Tarnishing Thatcher as Racist

In this morning's hourly news update, National Public Radio (NPR) attempted to tarnish the late British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a racist by suggesting that she supported apartheid in South Africa. Though Thatcher opposed sanctions against South Africa, and characterized the anti-apartheid African National Congress as a terrorist organization--which it was--she remained firmly opposed to the policy of apartheid. 9 Apr 2013

Raffi: A Child's Prophet Returns to the U.S. Stage

Raffi Cavoukian, better known to millions of children across two generations simply as "Raffi," has returned to the U.S. stage for the first time in a decade to perform for a new generation of children--and their parents, who never stopped loving the music they grew up with in the 1970s and 1980s. Raffi opened his tour in Berkeley, CA on Apr. 6 and will travel to the East Coast and the Midwest, with proceeds benefiting his children's charity. 8 Apr 2013

A rare moment of class from MSNBC

MSNBC observed the passing of Margaret Thatcher in its usual fashion, with Martin Bashir's vitriol and the general scorn the left has always had for the Iron Lady. The rest of the mainstream media, which tends to share quietly the same prejudices MSNBC waves in front of the camera, rushed to plunge their daggers as well, treating Thatcher not-so-subliminally as a villain while lauding Hugo Chavez as a hero a few weeks ago. 8 Apr 2013