We Don’t Need No Stinkin Honor Roll

I quess it only would be natural for an education major to expect that  high expectations are somehow unnatural and should be avoided.   After all low expectations are what kept Abraham Lincoln an uneducated farm boy.   Low expectation are how

Cow farts.

No, really… that’s the claim.

Hume:

A report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization says cattle and other livestock cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together. Britain’s Independent

I had a problem with Thomas Sowell’s column.   It was difficult to pick which paragraph to quote.

To be blunt, I find the reasoning the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision, “Brown v. Board of Education to be absurd.   In 1954, many

Byron York over at The Corner raises an interesting issue:

I have a new story up about reports that U.S. intelligence tapped Princess Diana’s phones in 1997.  It’s tempting to dismiss such accounts, especially given the sensational nature of some

Billy;

Message received.

William Jefferson’s re-election in Lousiana run-off has complicated life for Mrs. Pelosi.   Having campaigned on a promise to drain the republican swamp, Mrs.. Pelosi finds herself surrounded by democrat allegators.

For The Hill, Alexander Bolton, reports “CBC wants

Recently, via e-mail, I got a note from a new reader. He wondered, in quiet tones, what the future of this site will be, given the political outcome in the election just recently.

I have to admit I haven’t thought

WASHINGTON — The sterile, confused lame-duck session of the Republican-controlled 109th Congress ended with a quiet victory by reformers that staved off an estimated 10,000 earmarks. But it could not be called a farewell to pork. Last Thursday, as the

Now that Democrats are back in power the politics of fear and envy is back in vogue.

It’s hard to open a newspaper or watch the news without hearing about the “income gap” or the “wealth gap.”

CNN anchor Lou

Newsmax;

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is polishing up one of her more famous phrases as she edges closer to a presidential run, writing in a new introduction to her book “It Takes a Village” that Sept. 11 and the Internet

(Fox) Outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to offer a blistering criticism of the Bush administration’s foreign policy in a farewell speech Monday to a crowd in Independence, Mo.

A copy of the speech originally obtained by USA Today and

In a perverse illlustration of Jimmy Carter’s moral sense, or lack of same, the Associated Press reports,  “Gaza gunmen target children:”

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Palestinian gunmen killed three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer

James Joyner this morning, notes that Glenn Greenwald has finally got the message:

Rahm Emanuel Lied About Mark Foley Scandal

Glenn Greenwald examines the evidence and finds that Rahm Emanuel lied when he told George Stephanoupolous that he was not

The Warblogger awards, which are the oldest and most prestigious
awards for the right side of the blogosphere, are now live.

You can see the results 5th annual Warblogger awards, which are voted
on by right-of-center bloggers, at the following

This is not going to be a happy read, tonight.

Oh, don’t worry, I’m not in a foul mood… more thoughtful, than anything…

“Don’t wish your time away… after enough of it goes by, you’ll wish you had it back