All these years, liberals were right about one thing: George Bush is an idiot. Video here.
What a disappointment. 
Addendum: The backlash begins. (Thanks, Renee!)
Update (6/1): President George W. Bush will go down in history as the man who ushered in a dramatic demographic shift that turned the United States into a Third World country, with a disappearing middle class, another poorly educated and poor underclass (this one much larger than the other and Spanish-speaking), and a wealthy, insulated, gated-community elite.
And I voted for him. Twice. I voted for Clinton twice, too, but I’m more ashamed of voting for Bush.
Peggy Noonan writes: “What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.”
Check out this exchange between a Republican donor and the RNC.
I’m a revolter! At times like this, I’m glad I don’t belong to the Republican party. No annoying phone calls (or junk mail) from the RNC. 
To escape politics for a while, visit Fantasy Fiction for Christians.
Update II: Loyal reader Renee just told me Rush Limbaugh read part of an article I wrote on his show today. Excellent. 
Saturday, June 2: This post is closed to comments, but I still want to hear your stories. E-mail me at barbersview [at] yahoo [dot] com.
Scroll down for updates — readers respond — I forgot to point you to Just Another “Immigration Rant”
Please take time to read the comments. The stories are blood pressure-raising but important.
A commenter reminded me that the Social Security Administration can’t inform an employer that an employee may be unauthorized to work in the U.S. because of disclosure laws. I blogged about it here last year. Our bloated, taxpayer-supported agencies are not working together for America’s security.
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Now that conservatives see how serious King George is about passing an amnesty-for-illegal-aliens bill instead of deporting people in the country illegally, they’re becoming bolder and beginning to talk about the cultural impact of millions of illegal, non-assimilating, non-English-speaking, foreigners who drink, drive, and kill people because of their “culture,” loiter outside stores, urinate in public, live 20 to a single-family house, park cars in front yards, litter, and…
Well, this conservative is talking about it. And so is Ann Coulter. Once upon a time, only “racists” and “nativists” talked about the importance of culture to a nation. And national unity. And shared language. And common values. And identity. Now it’s gone mainstream. It’s about time.
I won’t editorialize the point. I’ve done so here:
- Washington Examiner — Local liberals learning new lessons on ‘diversity’
I wrote about Carol Swain, a liberal who has a few words for the Congressional Black Caucus, here:
- Townhall.com — Low-Income Blacks and Illegal Immigration
Filed under: Columns, Cultural Decline, Illegal Aliens
Independent Conservative reports on CNN’s biased coverage.
Hot Air has the blood pressure-raising video.
Previous post: Media Blackout On Christian-Newsom Murders?
Check out the new Web 2.0 Blogs4God, which host Dean describes as a “Christian version” of the popular Digg.com.
Sort of Related Update (2:35 p.m.): Georgia Christian Laura Mallory, wanna-be Harry Potter book banner, is foiled again. For the time being, the HP books will remain on government school library shelves in Gwinnett County.
Also see Laura Mallory and the Misguided Crusade.
Update: I like this idea from a commenter (emphasis in original):
“In the 18th Century, England could send its ne’er-do-wells to Australia. It was a viable option to the death penalty. My variation on that is simple: send them to Antarctica. Send them there with a parka, a tent, a sleeping bag, and a week’s worth of MRE’s [meal, ready to eat]. They can kill each other for food for all I care, and their life (or death) is up to them and their own survival skills…Couldn’t happen soon enough in my opinion.”
By the way, don’t twist my words or my meaning. I didn’t say I’d gleefully throw things at child rapists.
I’d do it somberly.
I just happen to think some criminals should be subjected to modern-day stonings. Is that so wrong?
Commenter Gabe, a Christian, has a reasonable response (unlike mine, apparently) to the questions. Check it out.
Tuesday, May 29: Welcome, Conservative Grapevine readers. This post is closed to commenting, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on Death to Pedophiles.
Sunday, May 27: Evia responds in the comment section:
“I’m Evia, and I’m opinionated, LOL! - so here goes.
“First, let me point out that I have NEVER had a bad relationship with a black man and no one can ever truthfully say that I have. My first husband was a black man and we had such a loving relationship (though different goals) until I definitely wanted to remarry. I’ve NEVER had a bad relationship with any man, for that matter. My ex-husband is actually one of my best friends and I’ve remained friends with my ex-boyfriends. So I’m not an angry, mean black woman, though some black men in cyberspace have tried to portray me as MRS. HITLER because of my efforts to remove the shackles from the brains of so many black women. LOL! This is because apparently these men see the message of my blog as a threat to them and they therefore try to discredit the blog’s message by defaming me.”
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According to our U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), asking minority job applicants of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) to display minimal reading comprehension and reasoning skills is racist.
Because non-whites keep flunking an already watered down written employment examination, DOJ has filed suit against FDNY for discriminatory practices.
An excerpt:
In a 14-page complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, attorneys for the Department of Justice alleged that discriminatory hiring practices were rooted in two written tests given to applicants in 1999 and 2002 that, while not purposely or obviously racist, were littered with SAT-like questions that do not test an applicant’s ability to fight fires. The suit seeks an injunction and possible damages.
The two “pass/fail” tests resulted in passing rates for black and Hispanic applicants that were lower than those of white applicants in a statistically significant way, the complaint charges.
We’ve been down this road before.
I will be in the audience at “The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Rush To Judgment and Journalism’s Future” at the National Press Club this morning. Participants are Stuart Taylor, columnist and co-author (along with KC Johnson) of Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case; Joseph Neff, reporter for The Raleigh News & Observer; and Rem Reider, editor of The American Journalism Review.
Writer John Leo mentions the Duke case and the Christian-Newsom murders in his article about selective news coverage. (Hat tip: MM)
Although this post is closed, Notes on “The Rap on Culture” is open for discussion. The 16-page study I linked to is a must-read.
Report later…
Update (5/23 @ 7:00 a.m.): The National Press Club flyer reads:
“Spurious rape charges against members of the Duke University lacrosse team triggered a year’s worth of emotional news stories, blogs, and 24/7 media specials. Many allegations were flung and many reputations ruined, but in the end all charges were dropped. Now, the original prosecutor himself faces potential charges, and journalists must work through the wreckage to find lessons for the future.â€
In the beginning…
Update III (5/23): I am SHOCKED that this piece made it into a newspaper. It’s the ugly, barely-reported truth.
Update II: I forgot to mention a study that showed black students from intact “religious” families perform better in school than their counterparts.
Also, choice is key. Libertarian Andrew Coulson notes that “the school system itself affects parents’ and students’ attitudes towards education. The current system gives parents no power, no control, no responsibilities. When parents can choose their kids’ schools – better yet, when they HAVE to choose their kids’ schools – they become more savvy and more involved.”
See his post at Cato-at-liberty on poor and marginally educated parents choosing schools for their kids. I reviewed a book of essays about the late libertarian Milton Friedman. One essay discussed private schools in Third World countries. I wrote:
