…I’m not sure this is in keeping with the official Shirley Sherrod narrative. The Progressive Committee on Condemnations in the service of Teachable Moments has called an emergency session to figure out how to address such unscrupulousness.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked? Because part of that peck belongs to Blacks, women, gays, Hispanics, the transgendered, and others who have been traditionally discriminated against, and so — in order to rectify the effects of such discrimination — are deserving

Pardon me for once again wading into the racial waters — after all, doing so is notoriously unhelpful to the Tea Party movement (at least, that’s what I’ve been told, and so I apologize for my part in destroying the country by taking the focus of Paul Ryan momentarily) — but it seems to me that Mr Obama’s dubious descriptor for racial makeup, in addition to being decidedly fraught (especially

WSJ: The immigration debate is reviving the explosive idea of denying citizenship to children born on U.S. soil if their parents are in the country illegally. A U.S. senator and a state lawmaker in Arizona, both central players in the battle over immigration law, separately proposed this week that “birthright” citizenship be denied to the children of illegal immigrants. They said the change would help stem the flood of illegal