He's lost it

In his appraisal of the immigration reform debate in America, Brad Warthen opines that it all boils down to a tasty tomato-and-cheese pie. Really:

But I know that as long as the pizza is this good in this country, they’re going to keep coming.

Read the whole thing. In the history of logical coherence, this has to be the absolute bottom. It just has to be.

Warren Bolton Doesn't Care About Black People

The headline is a take-off of a Kanye West's famous Post-Katrina appraisal of George W. Bush. (For all of those lacking a sense of humor: this is funny because Warren Bolton is African-American himself and, as a Black man in Americ--oh, just forget it.)

Anyway, Bolton writes an odd and not-terribly-useful article that insinuates that Black supporters of school choice are somehow suspect because they...wait for it... are willing to work with conservatives! Oh, someone catch me, I'm about to faint.

Note to Warren Bolton: Some people would rather work with Republicans than lose another generation of kids to low achievement, high dropout rates and the continual cycle of grinding poverty. Just sayin'.

Cindi Scoppe is Out to Lunch

When the supposedly "conservative" South Carolina legislature elected ultra-liberal Don Beatty to the state Supreme Court, the citizens' group Conservatives in Action, uh, went into action.

As with all effort for citizen education, participation, and redress, this outraged State columnist Cindi Scoppe. She simply couldn't stand to see that voters with South Carolina values would come together to express their opposition to the election of a judge who legislates his very different values from the bench. So Cindi wrote this column.

Notice that the column focuses not at all on the claim that this justice is radically left-wing, unresponsive to the people, and not terribly qualified—Scoppe ignores what is the substance of the objection—and focuses instead on the idea that perhaps the opposition tp Beatty includes some people Cindi doesn't like. Boo-hoo.

In the meantime, in today's State we are given an awful object lesson in what happens when liberal judges ascend to the bench: public school child molesters are given ridiculously short sentences.

Some day soon, you may be able to get more years for cockfighting.