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My list overfloweth, we’ll see how I do at selection.
- Libya and Congress … and separation of powers. Another on that topic here.
- Economic performance, employment, and limiting hours.
- Prince, some time back.
- Faux outrage from the left. I found the outrage at corporate tax dodging (queue GM/Chrysler images) amusing. Democrats ostensibly are for graduated taxes, while any corporate tax paid by the consumer irrespective of their earnings. I hadn’t realized the Democrats were so strongly for consumption taxes on non-luxury items.
- In awe of the aria.
- Mr Obama’s first years, In a nutshell.
- Egypt’s V-police matter is not going away.
- Racist? In my house they are called “papa noodles”, ’cause I have a lot of grad-school experience in cooking them in different ways.
- Remember the San Francisco anti-circumscision legal movement being accused of anti-semitism, here’s their ad. So, anti-semitic or not?
- Met. Hilarion on relgious intolerance.
- Christian response to no-longer-Christians.
- Pox on all their houses.
- AGW and bad science hand in hand, I guess.
- It’s cute when Democrats slip in little racism jabs at the GOP … all while ignoring the fact that for 2 years they held the Presidency had a bi-Cameral majority.
Ah, the “‘race card’ card”. Apparently effective even if “racism” wasn’t mentioned at all. And partisan considerations were barely mentioned at all — basically as an aside of several non-normative reasons for denying voting rights to these places. If you took that post as a partisan shot (much less a “racism charge” at Republicans), it’s the mark of someone whose radar is tuned way too tight (or perhaps a guilty conscience).
The reason I did mention Democratic propensities is that the strong likelihood of voting Democratic, of course, is rather clearly a key barrier to DC getting voting representation. That’s why virtually every plan for enfranchising its citizens requires a counterbalancing house district to be created in Utah or some other red locale (and why the Democrats’ proposal for such a plan last session didn’t include Senate representation, which couldn’t have any balancing). I don’t even think this analysis is particularly controversial when applied to DC statehood. Any honest observer knows this is, at the very least, a substantial part of the problem.
But in general, this state of affairs has been unjust from moment one — democratic rights are not and should not be optional. There have been a ton of administrations and Congresses in session over this period, and all of them are equally to blame for not rectifying it.