Bad news edition: A Republican lawmaker urged colleagues to adopt rigorous math and science high school graduation requirements Thursday – or watch Colorado youngsters lose a global race for high-paying tech jobs. “The world is rapidly shifting to a technology-based economy, and if we don’t meet the challenge, our kids will be left behind,” Rep. Rob Witwer, R-Genessee, warned the House Education Committee. “If we fail, future generations will correctly

Good Morning, I’m writing to you today to ask you to help support Michael Yon, the former Green Beret turned independent combat journalist, currently in Iraq. As noted by Instapundit Glenn Reynolds and Austin Bay last night, Yon has been threatened with expulsion from Iraq by an Army General : A general emailed in the past 24 hours threatening to kick me out. The first time the Army threatened to

From the Rocky Mountain News: Rep. Tom Tancredo has raised more than $1 million for his exploratory presidential bid, saying that makes it more likely he will follow through with a full-fledged candidacy. Tancredo, R-Littleton, said he’s aware of the daunting odds he faces going up against bigger-name Republican contenders who have millions more dollars in the bank. Still, he said he takes heart in the large number of average

“Cardinals’ La Russa arrested after he’s found asleep at the wheel”: St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was arrested Thursday for suspicion of drunken driving after police said they found him asleep inside his running sport utility vehicle at a stop light. The 62-year-old La Russa gave two breath samples and was determined to have a blood alcohol content of 0.093%, Jupiter police said in a statement. Florida’s legal

that this means wah! Iran seized 15 British naval personnel who were conducting “routine boarding operations’’ in Iraqi waters, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said. “The boarding party had completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters,’’ the ministry said in an e-mailed statement. “We are urgently pursuing this matter with the Iranian

Does being a Neocon mean being socially conservative? Yes It’s not required, but they are connected No    pollcode.com free polls [NB: Edit at 7:30 to change phrasing of second option from “It’s not required, but it does correlate” to “It’s not required, but they are connected”] Discuss.

Michael Kinsley gently praises an article by David Brooks regarding the US Attorney firings, and all hell breaks loose in his comments section.  Here’s a good one: Wow. I live in a country where this Bush-enabling, millionaire-fellating clown is considered “liberal.” Just… wow. Police: Pakistan cricket coach murdered ”Genteel sport of cricket . . . dealt a brutal blow” Man arrested in Minn. dog beheading Police said the man they

As the 2006 midterm elections demonstrated, Americans do not like misconduct in public office. Misbehavior by those in the public eye, particularly those elevated to high public office, erodes our confidence in the institutions and traditions that under-gird our society. This is why the revelations about Miss USA Tara Conner, quickly followed by the scandal which led to the dethroning of Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees, were so terribly demoralizing.

Bob Novak is agog at what Hayden authorized Waxman to say (that he wouldn’t be wrong to say that Plame was, under some definition, covert). Booman forgets the fact that Valerie was so covert, her employment was verified by a Public Information Officer at the Agency.  And he just can’t, you know, believe that Novak keeps attacking her! Preston Taylor Holmes is saying what a lot of us were thinking,

“In the white man’s latest attempt to carry out the purge of outspoken Native American critics of western cultural hegemony from university campuses, the so-called U of Colorado ‘Regents’—neocolonialist, fascist protectors of white privilege, the lot of them—are trying to shorten the appeals process for dismissal of tenured professors to 100 days, all so they can avoid paying me with the blood money they’ve collected on the backs of the