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

But in this case, that’s a good thing.  And what it makes it doubly impressive is that Democratic state Sen. Chris Romer of Denver bucked his own party AND the Senate Education Committee, which is often nothing more than a rubber stamp for the teacher’s union, in order to support a commonsense education initiative.  From the Rocky Mountain News, “Bill pushes English”: Students would have to demonstrate mastery of English

If you want to be part of her world today, Sign here, save a pet, or pray–if you pray. Damage to an area of the brain behind the forehead, inches behind the eyes, transforms the way people make moral judgments in life-or-death situations, scientists are reporting today. In a new study, people with this rare injury expressed increased willingness to kill or harm another person if doing so would save