A minority is any group liberals think can't do for themselves. Sometimes these people are newly arrived, other times they had been held back in the past. Either way, to become wards of the left is an insult to that group and a clear path to underclass status. Italians, Jews, Eastern Europeans and Irish need not apply. Asians are still, but not for long, twofers.

Good article, but Gore ran in 2000, not 2004.

Actually it's a Half-Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.

Thomas Sowell is usually right on target, but to equate TR with present-day so-called Progressives is specious at best. (Woodrow Wilson is another case entirely. He spied on his political opponents, including using bully boys to intimidate. He segregated the federal civil service. Also, he froze Republicans out of the peace talks in 1919, which helped bring on WWII.) TR, however, realized that since the Civil War, a weak federal government had been siding with big business. With the rise of big labor, TR made sure the government was strong enough to keep the public good from being trampled in the middle. These modern loons have taken the name Progressive because they've discredited every other name they've used.

Common over-use of F has ruined a perfectly good word. F is similar to alcohol, tobacco and hot peppers in that in the past it had to be earned by mileage, by being an adult. As with technical vocabularies--scientific, engineering--it had been used in specific environments. Its power has been squandered and our discourse coarsened. Now what word do we use when we make a statement intended to shock us into listening?

The only policies Obama has gotten at least a little right are the ones where he has followed Bush's policies, and Bush wasn't all that great. No, he didn't screw up the plans to go after Bin Laden, but after all our blood and treasure he's basing his plan to pull out of Iraq on politics, not reality. Multiply that flawed policy by scores more, and we have a truly depressing scenario. God help us.

How dare Obama claim any resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt. Whether you like him and his policies or not, Teddy was experienced, vigorous and unafraid to take on any foe. And he did it for all Americans, not only the politically or ideologically connected. Shame on the president and all the other so-called Progressives.

That last 9% is the camel's nose in the tent. The last forty years has been dominated by government's hunt for additional revenue streams. Sooner or later that last nine will begin to rise, and the national sales tax will skyrocket, turning our pockets inside out. The only way it will work is to eliminate the income tax by constitutional amendment and calibrate the sales tax to the required level.

Fine article about "the now-infamous show named after their home state." Fortunately but not widely known, most if not all the on-screen participants aren't from New Jersey at all. MTV simply uses that great venue, the Jersey Shore, to telecast garbage that further slanders our state.

The demise of the SAT will bring other unintended consequences. I've seen how the SAT still brings fairness to the game of college acceptance. I've watched as well-heeled students who have mastered all the right patter and plugged in all the expected activities and references are pulled up short by their SAT's, while middle class and working class students get to sparkle because of their scores. Eliminating SAT's will simply help bring back the bad old days of privilege and exclusion.