The Law As an Excuse for Lack of Reason?  Or the Law in response to a Lack of Reason? 

John Venlet over at Improved Clinch:

Schools’ zero tolerance rules have a tendency to relieve teachers and administrators from utilizing their reasoning skills, and their common sense.

While I understand your response, John, and I am sympathetic, I’m going to

As promised, here’s a series of photos of last night’s happening. For the fourth itself, we went west of here to a little berg called Lyndonville. Those pics are here.

For this trip, we went a bit east… a town

Asked, a while ago, What are the real consequences of FDR? 

I pointed to an article by Amity Shales in the Wall Street Journal subtitled “Reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

I suspect that that particular article in the Journal  started

Pinch Sulzberger, a.k.a. the New York Times, in reference to Fred Thompson, is asking, “Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?” 

To which, Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, says:

I don’t see why not. In 2004, America

Joyner at OTB:

The big news overnight is the claim by a pro abortion group that it hired Fred Thompson to lobby the first President Bush to soften his stance on a gag rule.
Michael Finnegan broke the story

I know it is the question everybody, from Rush Limbaugh to Keith Olbermann, is asking, and given the size of our readship the obvious answer is no.   Yet revolutionary theories are often counter intuitive.

On the Fourth, in “Clinton

I believe in gun control, the ability to hit for what you aim.   A citizen demonstrates good control.

This “open society” madness is being used against us, as I predicted.  Little Green Footballs points out, this morning:

Here’s the jawdropper of the morning, as ThisIsLondon reveals that radical Muslims have infiltrated British police forces—but the police cannot legally

We decided to do something little different this year, and instead of going all the way to the show at Niagara Falls, or partaking in any of the local shows, all of which we’ve been to dozens of times, we

Reynolds has discovered the battery:

THIS SOUNDS COOL:

Batteries have long been vital to laptops and cellphones. They are increasingly supplying electricity to an unlikely recipient: the power grid itself.

Until recently, large amounts of electricity could not be efficiently

Of of all the stupid concept the leftards concoct none may be more inane that “awareness.”   From Michelle Malkin:

The Live Earth global concert series kicked off Saturday with an aboriginal group dancing and singing a traditional welcome at the

I still regard Ron Paul as a bad joke.  And yet, we see that he’s managed to out fundraise John McCain.

I’m not quite sure what this is indicative of, except perhaps the bump that Paul got from the left

Rusty Shackelford is asking for some help.  I’ll post the text here, just in case, because I wouldn’t put it past these sand monkeys to try to knock Rusty over.

No joke, the Taliban have posted a message on

You know, it almost seems useless to bring this up again, since both David and myself have mentioned it several times in the last four days or so.  But this is an interesting angle:

Michelle Malkin points to Doug Heye,

Both McQ at Q&O, and James at OTB note the wailing from Susie Madrak.

Only because it’s handier, will use the comments of James to start this off;

Susie Madrak, under the attention-grabbing headline “No More Dead Bloggers,”