News and Views

Updated at 2:05 to add a few links.

I haven't mentioned this in a while, so for anybody relatively new around here, news and views posts are primarily for my high-school aged Progeny. They keep a current events notebook, and sometimes I include a post or two of links to news events, editorials, and blog-posts that I think may be (or should be) of interest to them. LIke these:

News from Tibet

Political prisoners in Cuba




The Supreme Court hears a landmark case on gun control and the second amendment.

Michael Graham of the Boston Herald didn't like Obama's speech on race and the Reverend Wright.
The New York Times did.
Over at Hot Air, they don't like the NYT.
You can read the transcript and WLS's objections to it over at Patterico.
Betsy points out that either he still doesn't quite get it, or he doesn't want to acknowledge what really bothers people about his pastor's sermons. He suggested that it was the style of a Black church that bothered people, the noise and movement that were 'jarring to the untrained ear.' Actually, no. I have been to several Black churches and that's a non-issue. As Betsy points out:

People weren't finding that laughter and humor what was jarring. It was hearing someone assert, five days after 9/11, that the "chickens were coming home to roost" or blaming white America for the AIDS virus.

Klaus on false equivilancies in Obama's speech
Sailer on Obama falsifying his grandmother's statement about being afraid of black men in the street.
Mom's take: Obama showed us all once again that he is an incredibly gifted orator with great charisma. I would have liked to hear him say that, contrary to his pastor's claims, white people did NOT invent the AIDS virus to kill black people. I would have liked him to deny other conspiracy theories held dear by his pastor and preached from the pulpit. Unless, of course, the Senator from Illinois believes those conspiracy theories, in which case I would like to hear him say that, too.
NEW: And while, No, Virginia, the government did not invent AIDS to commit genocide against all the black people, never forget crimes of shame like Tuskegee.

You could skim around the Counterterrorism blog for some news notebook worthy stuff

Betsy also tells us that the court upholds Michigan's measure banning racial and gender preferences in government hiring and university admissions.

A little info on oil prices

Hoover, FDR, and George Bush- read it and think, Common Room Scholars. You've just been reading about this period in history. What do you think?

A Certain Slant of Light has a good read on where the true conservatives in the GOP have gone (note: they are not running for president).

Pork in Washington

NEW:
Planned Parenthood is spending 10 million dollars to influence this election. Those of the Progeny reading Grand Illusions for school should read this link to see why.

Loved this- a timeline of Global Warming/Cooling warnings, via media articles (mostly NYT) going back to the 1900s.

The Welfare State and Assimilation- do they conflict?