Archive for 2013

WALL ST. JOURNAL: McConnell Sees Campaign to Intimidate Conservatives. “The Senate’s Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, accused the Obama administration and its allies of undertaking a broad effort to push conservatives off the political playing field by trying to identify and harass their donors and force them into silence.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: 11-yr-old fathers child with 36-yr-old woman. “An 11-year-old boy in New Zealand has become a father after conceiving a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend. The woman coerced the boy, from Auckland, into repeated sexual encounters over a period of time before becoming pregnant, the New Zealand Herald daily reported. The woman gave the boy beer to drink and then later took part in a sexual encounter with him, the report said. The sexual contact continued for a number of months after the initial encounter. The boy had turned 12 by the time the child was born.”

In many American states, the boy would still be liable for child support.

WELL, NOT GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, APPARENTLY. HE’S A “WHITE HISPANIC.” WaPo: Who Is Latino?

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: U. of Colorado to Conduct Survey on Political Diversity. “The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted Thursday to conduct a campus survey on whether there is discrimination based on political perspectives, particularly at the flagship Boulder campus. . . . Regents said that there was insufficient political diversity on the faculty, and that this could lead to discrimination against students based on political perspectives.”

TURNING INTO? “Barack Obama is turning into a one-man gaffe machine.” How bad has it gotten? So bad that James Taranto is actually defending him. On the other hand, here’s the defense: “Note also that Obama doesn’t actually seem to know anything about Northern Ireland. Viewed in context, his comments are actually a homily about civil rights in America.”