Couldn’t Help But Notice (030308)
Redefining chutzpah, Duke University’s administration is attempting legal action to shut down the information web site of the lacrosse players suing the university.
K.C. Johnson explains the obvious as to why the university has no case, and should know that it has no case.
It takes a lot for me to get to the point of suggesting that parents not send their kids to a particular university. The disgraceful two-year pattern of behavior at Duke in this case has me at that point.
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Angelina Jolie, in the Washington Post, last Thursday:
As for the question of whether the surge is working, I can only state what I witnessed: U.N. staff and those of non-governmental organizations seem to feel they have the right set of circumstances to attempt to scale up their (humanitarian) programs. And when I asked the troops if they wanted to go home as soon as possible, they said that they miss home but feel invested in Iraq. They have lost many friends and want to be a part of the humanitarian progress they now feel is possible.
It seems to me that now is the moment to address the humanitarian side of this situation. Without the right support, we could miss an opportunity to do some of the good we always stated we intended to do.
Rush, on Friday:
She makes more sense than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama or anybody on the Democrat side about this. It’s stunning.
Taranto at Best of the Web, on Friday:
(Jolie’s attitude is) quite a contrast with the attitude of Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama, who said last summer that even preventing genocide was not a sufficient reason for a continuing presence in Iraq. What does it say about the Democratic Party that it seems poised to nominate someone who, on the most pressing concern of the day, is less morally serious than a Hollywood starlet?
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A great question from Tom Maguire for Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, who on Thursday said that “they” used the “fear bomb” of her husband’s middle name (which, in case you didn’t know, is “Hussein”) against him in his 2004 Senate run:
OK, who is “they”? Today’s ChiTrib advised us that Alan Keyes, Obama’s final Senate opponent, never used “Hussein” …..
FWIW, the Chi Trib’s archive first kicks out a “Barack Hussein Obama” in Dec 2006.
So, again, who were “they” in 2004, Michelle?
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I said here that I might have to modify the names I use for the three remaining presidential candidates if circumstances warrant.
In one case, they do.
Thanks to stories such as this one, the lone remaining female presidential contender’s name has been upgraded from HR3C to HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton).
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The globalarmists who believe in man-made global warming have suffered a serious setback: “Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming.”
I don’t recall any big reduction in driving or worldwide industrial output in the past year that would “explain” th drop, do you?
You know that globaloney, the term used around here to describe the belief that humans have a meaningful influence on climate and weather patterns, is well on its way to being intellectually routed when the New York Times does a defensive article like this one.
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Florida Governor Charlie Crist has a message for Democrats who want a “do-over” of the Florida Primary (my interpretation): “Go ahead, guys, make fools of yourselves before the entire country. The State of Florida will be glad to sponsor the spectacle.”
