* The prosperity of the neighborhoods around the dying Jamestown Mall isn’t quite what the P-D advertises. I’ll leave it at that.
* Ever wondered where the left wing gets all this money to stir up shit? Look in the mirror.
* I may not know “what it’s going to take,” but we can already deduce that community organizing doesn’t work.
* Cookie Thornton, Michael Devlin, and now this. Plain words, there is something definitely wrong in Kirkwood.
* A Federal trial level judge has declared DADT unconstitutional.
So? I didn’t know the civilian Federal courts had any jurisdiction over the military.
* PJ Media on the flaw of Minority Report-style law enforcement:
All of which sounds fine until you realize that a cop who spends too much of his work day staring into a computer screen will spend too little of it looking out the window of his police car for the criminals he has been so sophisticatedly equipped to detect. When I was a rookie cop in the early ‘80s, each day in roll call I was handed a copy of what was called the Daily Occurrence report, known to street cops of the time as the D.O. sheet. Most of the veteran cops I worked with gave it a glance and took note of particulars like vehicle descriptions and license numbers of cars used in crimes, but they had little use for it otherwise. They already knew where the area’s crimes were most likely to occur from having handled the calls themselves and from talking with their colleagues. They also knew where the parolees lived, which, then as now, was most often not where their parole records indicated. More important, they knew when to jump out of the car and put the grab on somebody they could see was up to no good.
It’s like the meteorologist who spends all of his or her time behind computer screens and fails to look out a simple window. I wish I had a dime for every time the early morning local eyeball news said it was “cloudy” outside when it was really clear, or vice versa. I’d be so rich that I’d have no need to wake up so early as to be watching the early morning local eyeball news meteorologists get the current conditions wrong.
* Blogmeister Echo Syndrome. Especially this part:
According to the Education Department, between 1997-98 and 2007-08, prices for undergraduate tuition, room and board at public institutions of higher education rose by 30 percent, and prices at private institutions rose by 23 percent — after adjustments for inflation. “The reason colleges have been getting away with raising their fees so much is that loans allow parents to tough it out,” Vedder says.
Federal government moves, such as tuition tax credits, allow those paying college costs to subtract a certain amount from their tax bills. But it does little to alleviate the financial burden, Vedder says, adding that it gives colleges an excuse to raise costs further.
Now, the WaPo doesn’t say this, but that’s a deliberate government (especially liberal, especially Democrat Party) policy. Academia is the junior organizing arm of the Democrat Party, Liberalism Inc., and the ruling class in general. It’s all designed to get as much money as possible flowing through its veins.
* Duh of the day: A high school named for Byron Nelson has a golf team.
