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Seth at CCK excoriated conservatives for defending Dobson's comments, so its nice that he has now torn into Pat Robertson and Paul Harvey. It gives me a chance to join my colleague, Professor Schaff, in not defending Robertson or what...

From Star Parker: A group of wealthy Democratic Party partisans has announced a new partnership called the Democratic Alliance, through which millions of dollars will be funneled to a network of new and existing liberal think tanks to compete with...

Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, has died. Would you believe that the first popular album to use the Moog synthesizer was this album?...

Edmund Morris has a fine piece on the emotional strain of being president....

Peace group hopes to educate parents, students about recruiters

SD moonbats are alive and well in the so-called South Dakota Peace and Justice Center. At issue is the provision for schools to pass contact information to military recruiters.

The No Child Left Behind Act specifies that military recruiters must have the same access to contact information about students at the secondary-education level as those students' other prospective employers have.

They are pushing an effort to isnsure that parents/students have the option to opt out on this contact information. WAIT! HOLD THE PRESS! If one reads to the end of Kranz's screed the information is provided that:

In the Sioux Falls School District, parents are made aware at the beginning of the year that they may keep their child's name out of a school directory, Superintendent Pam Homan says. "Parents annually grant permission to allow a student's independent use of the Internet, participate in school trips, to be photographed or filmed and be included in the school directory. It is a long-standing policy," she said. If a child's name is not included, then no one, including recruiters, can gain access to the student's name or information, she said.

In other words, what the SDPJC is arguing for, and that Dave Kranz is giving coverage on, is a problem that was solved before it started - the "opt-out" has already been in place. Phew! The world is still safe for democracy.

Captain's Quarters has about the most thorough and detailed treatment of the Able Danger situation where advance information about BinLaden and el Qaida was discovered, but then not passed to law enforcement because of an administrative wall of separation between DoD and the FBI.

As a result, 9-11 took place, and later, the 9-11 Commission was caught with their facts down, to what will be their ultimate shame, and loss of credibility due to 5 or 65 different versions of response in the week and a half the story has been out.

The inside-the-beltway media/political axis has circled the wagons big-time on this one. As it is developing, every time they have come up with some objection, it has been met, with first one, then three named sources corroborating the event(s).

Check it out for the whole run down. This one has legs.

I have largely ignored the Cindy Sheehan circus because I take it to be just that: a circus. I believe that the phenomenon is a product of a lazy media who, as it has been well noted, get bored when...

From KXAN Austin: Cindy Sheehan continues to camp outside the president's ranch, demanding he tell her what noble cause her son died for. While she has plenty of support, there's also opposition, including the parents of a fallen Central Texas...

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