All well and good. But not if it’s gonna interfere with “Dancing with the Stars.” A nation has to have priorities. And ours, in the age of media-driven Presidencies, are ordered just so: 1) “Dancing with the Stars” 2) Presidential announcement 9 days after the fact explaining why we are engaging in “kinetic force actions” in Libya after having conferred with the UN and the Arab League (rather than Congress),

“So. Who wants to grab a beer and a cheeseburger, then go outside and shoot up a few crates of them curly bulbs…?”

I commented a bit on this a few days back, but Thomas Sowell really hammers home the takeaway from the latest census data: The movement of the black population– especially educated young blacks– is the most striking […]. In the past, the massive movements of millions of blacks out of the South in the early 20th century was one of the epic migrations of a people– comparable in size with

Volokh: […] the broader point is much more troubling: Yet again, a talk that’s critical of radical Islam — and perhaps of Islam generally — has been kicked out of a location because of a fear of violence (whether stemming from specific threats related to this talk, or from threats made about other events in the past). Next time, the exclusion might interfere considerably more with the speech, especially if

— and that might strike some bitterclingers — whose plastic beer helmets and vinyl carry-along Bible covers are cravenly beholden to Big Oil, it bears pointing out — as a bit regressive. But it’s not all ‘regression’ in Europe. For instance, leftist academics are taking a hard look at political violence. And they’ve progressed in their thinking to such a point where they’ve done away with left-wing political violence altogether.

WSJ, “Indiana Democrats Come Home”: Indiana House Democrats ended a nearly six-week boycott of the legislature Monday after Republicans agreed to shelve three bills opposed by unions, including a measure that would have forbidden labor contracts requiring private-sector workers to join unions. House Republican Speaker Brian Bosma downplayed the political deal, saying “these accommodations were really relatively minor, and most of them were given weeks ago.” Indiana House Democratic Leader