MM has a point - when people start getting comfortable / complacent over the nature of a security threat, it becomes easy to criticize those who actually "say something", attacking them for their alleged racism, or paranoia, or that they're delusional. Remember how a certain administration explicitly firewalled the CIA and the FBI to prevent data-sharing? Remember the criticism they came under for not sharing data, and perhaps preventing 9/11? When something *does* happen, the same people who sneered and complained about their rights being violated will be on the front lines of those shrieking the government didn't do enough to stop it - can't wait for criticisms that there weren't drones overhead.

Almost everyone I know has some first-hand account of suspicious actions relative to this vote, including thinly-veiled encouragement from Democratic activists for college students to register and vote both at-home at at-school, absentee ballots being filled out by a nurse at a nursing home on behalf of dementia patients, cars full of people with out-of-state plates pulling up to vote at my precinct, and many more - with 100's of thousands, perhaps millions of people registered to vote in more than one state, there's a clear *possibility* that the election was, indeed, stolen. Whether it was or wasn't, doesn't matter, it'll never be proved - but can't allow the possibility to remain for future elections to be stolen.

What, political bullying from McAuliffe? Nooo, say it ain't so ... Why, oh why, does this creepy carpetbagger insist on trying to gain power in this state? Why not get some actual experience as a political leader somewhere first? Maybe roadkill cleanup worker? It's pretty apparent why the Democrat Party supports him - not because he's electable, or would be good for the state, (actually, he'd be terrible for the state), but because he brings the weight of the Clinton fund-raising machine with him. The state has no problem voting for a centrist, moderate, qualified Governor(D), and as a party, the Governor's mansion isn't much a stretch. But if they nominate McAuliffe, say hello to our next Governor, Ken Cuccinelli.

I dunno, when I think of the "reverend's" origin, I don't really think of a "birth", per se, I'm thinking "slimy rocks" and a mutant frog was involved ...

The rise in DC home prices can be attributed to several things: - DC First Time Home Buyers tax credit - a $5000 tax credit (not a deduction, but a tax credit) for first-time homebuyers - and this is in the national interest, how?? - The continuing improvement in the city itself as it throws off the legacy of misguided "home rule" leaders, particularly Marion Barry, who wanted to keep the city a permanent ghetto for his own political ends. - The vastly increased regulatory regime of this admin means there's much more money at-stake, meaning many more lobbyists and lawyers - that's who's buying expensive houses. Most federal workers do *not* live in DC, because they can only afford to live in still unsafe neighborhoods.

I think the reason so many hold Ms. Thatcher in such hostile contempt is that she clearly demonstrated, in deed, not in word, the superiority of capitalism and free markets over Socialism. The Great Britain she took over was a moribund country, suffocating under trade unions and misguided social programs that were suffocating her people in a miasma of collective misery - in short, Great Britain was circling the drain in relevance. She helped unleash the genius of her people, rescuing the country from state-mandated mediocrity, and helped restore Great Britain to a position as a leader of the Free World, both politically and economically. Unfortunately, in many ways, Great Britain today is slowly being undone by her immigration policy ...

I've spoken to some brilliantly gifted young black people, who told me of the struggles they had with their families and peers, who actively militated against them becoming educated. One told me of how she begged to move away from Newark, because those around her actively tried to discourage her, and she didn't want to end up like them; in her words, ignorant and poverty-stricken. Another young man told me a similar story, about having to move, because he was taunted and beaten for "acting white". He told me, and I quote, that "Black people are like a bushel of crabs; when ones tries to escape, they all grab him, and pull it back down." Not to generalize, but these stories are instructive. ps - both went on to Ivy League colleges.

You seem to be assuming that IQ is solely a function of biology, and that blacks are biologically less-capabler or less intelligent, as least as measure by IQ testing. There's no way to view that as anything but racist. There's plenty of evidence to support that early and constant intellectual stimuli - for any child - will increase their relative IQ (and IQ is a relative term - that is, intellectual capacity vs. age.) An African-American "Tiger Mom" is just as likely to rear an above-average child as an Asian "Tiger Mom." To top it all off, you thrown in some eugenics theory - this is detestable.

This is one case where I hope she stays alive for a good long time, in her prison cell, sans pain medication. Let her die screaming, like the people who died because of her complicity.

Really? You really think the children of working parents who live in "nice neighborhoods" are the ones that aren't succeeding? More likely, these are high-achieving kids, with high-achieving parents, children who, that, when they get into an Ivy League school, will have all of the other parents muttering about how "they must have gotten SAT tutors" and were probably "legacies." I guarantee you, the kids who do the worst in school live in single-parent homes with a parent that doesn't work at all.

When I was 5, I wanted to marry my cousin, or possibly, my dog, thought that cake for every meal was the best idea ever, and spent most of my days playing in the dirt with my Tonka toys - the thought that some reporter would try to engineer an "out of the mouths of babes" moment then is laughable. I'm troubled with the use of children in the Progressive's propaganda and policy - whether used as emotional frontispieces, lined up by some cynical politician to try and score political points, or to justify every form of tax and regulation from sin taxes and gun control, to government-approved indoctrination, it's all the on the same continuum. And shame, shame on the parents that exploit their own children for a little attention.