Charles Murray: See I Told You So?

The Obama administration has confirmed one of  the most controversial assertions of The Bell Curve.   Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray published TBC in 1994.   From a summary of TBC, by Brian Beatty et al:

Raising Cognitive Ability –

Roxana Hegeman, writes:

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas judge’s decision to allow a confessed killer to argue that he believes the slaying of one of the nation’s few late-term abortion providers was a justified act aimed at

I got to give Harold Ford, Jr. potential candidate for Senate from the great state of Tennessee err New York credit.  Taylor Marsh and Katerine Jean-Lopez don’t agree on much, but they seem to agree on Harold Ford, Jr, K-Lo,

Sure Barack Obama does not think Dirty Harry Reid is a racist, from Eric Zimmermann, Hill:

“Harry Reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment reported today,” Obama said. “I accepted Harry’s apology without question because I’ve known

“The Republican Party itself has to drive out Trent Lott. If they have to stand for something, they have to stand up and say this is not the person we want representing our party.”

Illinois Senator Barack Obama(2002), via John

Chuckles the Clown, b/k/a Senator Charles Schumer likes to think of himself as both the smartest man in the room and the political king maker of the Empire State.   Evidently Harold Ford, Jr,  late of Tennessee, did not get the

Obama can’t be too happy about this. In what can only be considered a flat rejection of Obama policy, Rasmussen reports:

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information

Let it never be said that Eric doesn’t know how to bait a co-blogger:

DUKE: WHAT DIDN’T HAPPEN… David’s gonna holler about this. The always pretty Mary Katharine Ham, ripping the Duke fiasco, Mike Nifong, and so on. What’s

The House passed one version of Obamacare, and the Senate seems intent on  passing a totally different version.    Will Mrs. Pelosi have the House roll over and endorse Dirty Harry Reid’s bill?  Maybe not.   The chair of the House Rules

It is called disparate impact,  Lisa Richwine:

WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – In the rush to fund a U.S. healthcare overhaul, Botox injections to smooth wrinkles will not be taxed, but visiting a tanning salon will be.

Plastic

I don’t what else you can make of this,  Fox News:

Senate Democrats are warning the House not to make any significant changes to the health care package heading toward a vote in their chamber if they want the

Snark of the Day, Bill Kristol, video:

Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

Ok Keith Olbermann is an arrogant ass, but even an ass can have his day.   Olbermann goes off against Harry Reid health care mandate, albeit for the wrong reasons:

Olbermann is right that the a health care mandate is illegal.

SEIU does not accept that this monumental effort – that this reform that is so necessary to the health and wellbeing

All types of hairdos walk through this maze of aisles, bins, and end-cap displays: the tightly curled, the heavily-shellacked, the Easter egg-colored, the pigtailed, and even the bald. These captains of hair commandeer their vessels as