AZ’s youthful voters: Energetically involved or lethargically apathetic?

Although they talk a good game, many left-leaning younger voters appear to find more interesting pursuits than voting.

Columnist Jonah Goldberg previously wrote an excellent piece on the topic of the guilt-trip laden necessity of the vote for the certifiably uninformed.

Goldberg reminds us of the Arizona candidate who wanted to tie voting to the lottery, to encourage more participation in the process by the uninformed and disinterested.

Prominent bay area liberal talk show host faces prison

Read the disturbing account of Bernie Ward’s admission of distribution of child pornography over the internet.
Ward’s radio show was called “God Talk”

Apparently it was only a one-way conversation.

Happy Mother’s Day

 

American-born impressionist Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) specialized in paintings depicting mothers and children. Our selection for this Mother’s Day, The Child’s Bath, is one of her most celebrated.

Put down that fork, you scoundrel!

Regardless of what Mom told you, stop eating your vegetables

The United Nations Children’s Fund has released a report detailing that in Mexico, 300,000 youngsters are toiling in the fields picking crops. According to the study, 43.5 per cent of Mexico’s population are children under the age of 18

We are certainly not in favor of child exploitation or the high levels of illiteracy that goes hand-in-hand with this abuse of children—imposed upon them by their impoverished parents.

What we do question is the above-the-fold headline in today’s daily: Child labor in Mexico puts food on U.S. tables.

Here’s their take on the story: About 300,000 youngsters such as Adriana (who attends school only one hour a day) work illegally in Mexico’s fields, the U.N. Children’s Fund says, making child labor a major link in the chain that increasingly supplies American dinner tables.

The logical conclusion is that we, the eaters of salads, and consumers of vegetables, should not harden our hearts to the plight of these families as they sneak across our borders in violation of our law. After all our gluttony is the real reason for their need to invade our country.

Get it?

Barney Frank, you rascal, you never really did go away

La Raza in the Hou$ing Bill?

David Freddoso writing for National Review details the $25 million dollars in housing subsidies the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is being asked to set aside for neighborhoods with substantial populations of low income Hispanics. La Raza (The Race) will have oversight.

Read Freddoso’s overview for a glimpse of what is contained in liberal Financial Services Chairman, Barney Frank’s, housing bill.

The Global Warming Swindle

Weekend viewing to balance the religion of Al Gore

Sick of Global Warming Propaganda? Skeptical about what you’re hearing? Wish someone would produce some serious balance?

We urge you to watch the most important documentary you will never hear about elsewhere, here it is: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

Each educational segment is ten minutes or less. Watch as scientific authorities challenge what has become the most defining moral debate of our age.

Bet you can’t wait to contribute to this worthy effort

“Let’s go O’Connor this”

Friends are taking contributions to relocate the former home of Arizona’s onetime US Supreme Court Justice who reveled in her ability to wield the swing vote

Heaven forbid the 50-year-old adobe structure, located in Paradise Valley, should suffer the same destructive fate Roe v. Wade legalized for so many millions of pre-born babies.

O’Connor, who along with court allies, supplied the five votes to uphold Roe, was once quoted, “An entire generation has come of age free to assume Roe’s concept of liberty in defining the capacity of women to act in society, and to make reproductive decisions.” She had previously declared that “the essential holding of Roe v. Wade should be retained.”

Now a campaign has been launched to raise the estimated $2 million it will cost to move the house.

“That partisanship that permeates here in Arizona and nationally—it’s destructive,” Elva Coor, wife of former ASU president, Lattie Coor, said. “What we hope is that we can get cities and towns to use (the adobe) from time to time to compromise. Let’s make O’Connor a verb, if you will, and say, ‘Let’s go O’Connor this.’”

A swing around the dance floor to Institute for Justice

Score one for reasonableness

And a wild “Yahoo!” to Pinal County Superior Court Judge William O’Neil. In a ruling yesterday the judge ended a nearly two-year legal battle over dancing at San Tan Flat, the family owned restaurant located south of Queen Creek.

Amazingly, the Pinal County Board of Supervisors and a county hearings officer found father and son, Dale and Spencer Bell, in violation of a 1960s dance hall ordinance subjecting them to a $700 fine for every day someone dances there. The ruling overturned their decision, the East Valley Tribune reports.

The politics of religion

James Taranto, writing for the Wall Street Journal, provides a fine analysis of the politics of religion in presidential campaigns with The Mormon After.

Former Dartmouth professor sues her students

Ivy League gone wild

In a grammatically challenged email to her one-time students, Prof. Priya Venkatesan informed them of her intent to sue them for discrimination in the poor teaching evaluations they rudely gave her.

She included this threat: I am also writing a book detailing my experiences as your instructor, which will “name names” so to speak. I have all of your evaluations and these will be reproduced in the book.

Venkatesan then signed off with, Have a nice day.

All that was missing was the smiley face.