Now sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. Well, not really. We drove about 400 miles today, passing through DC and south in Virginia to Richmond, headquarters of the Confederacy during the Civil War. There isn’t a shooting war between the White House and Congress, but sometimes, it feels that way:
Maybe it just depends on your point of view:
Wednesday Links:
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has banned Iranian nationals from admission to certain graduate programs that school officials say aligns its policy with US sanctions against Iran. Luckily, there are other engineering schools.
Boston is using prison labor to shovel snow for pennies. Unionized city workers and state prisoners cleared commuter rails of snow on Monday
The WaPo thinks House Speaker John Boehner is managing to combine legislative incompetence with PR incompetence. Well, Boehner believes the country is in grave danger because of Obama, and right after this latest three-week vacation, he’s going to get busy taking health insurance away from poor folks.
The trade in antiquities is one of ISIS’s main sources of funding. Most of the items are from excavations rather than thefts from museums.
With all the screaming for Obama to utter the phrase, Islamic terrorists, I wonder what the commentariat thinks will happen next. That is, having said that, will it ensure that US weapons given to freedom fighters won’t end up in the hands of terrorists? Or do they imagine that a land war will succeed. Sorry, it is a phony issue.