Evidently not, if you can believe this piece from The New Editor. I could be wrong, but I suspect that one of the keys to breaking up the overwhelming African-American / Democratic voting bloc will be the voucher and charter school issues, which will force the Democrats to choose between the teachers’ union and an increasing number of blacks (among others) who are looking for an alternative to a public

Offered as definitive proof we are living in the ideological Bizzaro world of 1992, here’s one-time Marxist Christopher Hitchens on Francis Fukuyama:

The Disgruntled Chemist sends along a 4 part post documenting the proceedings from a meeting of the College Republicans at the University of California, Irvine: It was a panel discussion; the main issue was whether or not Muslims in the United States are doing enough to distance themselves from terrorists and to support the War on Terror. As you’ll see, the conversation soon diverged from that. The narration / recounting

From “The Straight Dope (classics)”, a critical look at cannibalism (which just so happens to intersect with the idea of sociopolitical motivations for embroidered meme propagation:

If one were to believe the commenters visting here from progressive sites over the last several days, my various suggestions that the propagation of ideas, memes, and particular narratives can have actual, empirical, real-world consequences…well, that’s just crazy talk!, some kind of a wingnut fantasy—like, say, an all white world, or a barefoot woman baking pies in every kitchen.  It matters not to these skeptics of certain well-established ideas of