News and politics

From the WSJ Here’s a dilemma: You manage a public employee pension plan and your actuary tells you it is significantly underfunded. You don’t want to raise contributions. Cutting benefits is out of the question. To be honest, you’d really rather not even admit there’s a problem, lest taxpayers get upset. What to do? For… Read more

Nice article on Bruce Leslie, the Chancellor Who Would Be King at the Alamo Community College(s) District.*  Rumor has that the Playland development is going to include retail commercial space to be rented out to a massage parlor.  Another rumor has it that St Albertson’s Northeast Lakeview is an unbudgeted, unaccredited "bandit" campus that would… Read more

It’s worth mentioning that the story came to light because a lobbyist who received the Post’s flyer was offended by the ethics of the event… Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

"Little Jimmy" Obama comes down on the side of the would-be President for Life who smuggled illegal ballots in from Venezuela.  Who’s giving Barack-0 his foreign policy advice, Joe Biden? Read more

MSNBC blares Immigrants fighting hard to stay in U.SWithout government benefits, many feel pressure to pull up stakes and it’s not until the fifth paragraph that your suspicions are confirmed.  These are illegal immigrants.  Fight all you want Paco, but do it on your dime, not mine. Read more

Mark Steyn nails the Sanford affair: Socialized medicine redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in all the wrong ways, and, if you cross that bridge, it’s all but impossible to go back. So, if ever there were a season for GOP philanderers not to unpeel their bananas, this summer is it. Tip… Read more

An execellent visualization of federal spending: Tip from Jay Nordlinger at NRO. Read more

Senator Kerry channels his inner Letterman. Tip from the Open Congress blog. Read more

Our latest nominee for the Supreme Court apparently feels her diversity is better than my diversity “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” said Judge Sotomayor, who is now considered… Read more

Frank J. shows the way We need all the moderates we can get to join us, because when everything goes to hell, they’ll be a great source of cheap labor and — in a worse case scenario — food. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more