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June 29, 2007

Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

Sure, I can go out in the heat and check the mail. But then, with about as much effort, I can whip up a pitcher of frozen margaritas and a BLT — an added benefit being that neither the margaritas nor the BLT will refer me to a payment schedule or rub their obscenely accrued interest in my face. A no brainer, this one is.

Wonder Twin Powers, activate: shape…of a three cheese enchilada!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it difficult — after watching the video and reading Allah’s take on “The Beltway Boys’” absurd defense of Lindsay Graham and the (thankfully) dead Immigration Reform bill — not to picture Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke, masked and stuffed like a couple of limp old sausages into tights and capes, zipping through the skies around Capitol Hill and unleashing their “rhetorical

Schools, race, "diversity," and "compelling interest," revisited

I’ve had an interesting exchange with Karl and (yes) Shine in the comment thread to yesterday’s post on the 5-4 SCOTUS ruling that would, on the surface at least, restrict the use of “race” (as a substantive deliminator) in K-12 school settings — an exchange I wish to highlight, because I think it touches on many of the issues that arise from Justice Kennedy’s (to my mind, at least) troubling

"Explosives-Packed Car Defused in London"

Via Darleen and Mushiloon, looks like the insurgent jihadi freedom fighters are serving notice to Britain’s new Labour Party Prime Minister that, like Spain before them, Britain should take the opportunity of political change to rationalize their way out of Iraq: Police in London’s bustling nightclub and theater district on Friday defused a bomb that could have killed hundreds, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes filled

The ACLU makes a right (or, maybe, "correct") turn

From Jacob Sullum, “Driving While Armed,” Aug/Sept Reason (print edition): Since “the constitutional right to bear arms is primarily a collective one,” the American Civil Liberties Union has said, the extent to which the government should restrict gun ownership “is a question left open by the Constitution.” In a longstanding break with this position, the ACLU of Texas is defending the rights of motorists to carry guns in their cars.