If Richard Mourdock has any smarts...

He’ll get out front of this right away...


UPDATE (110613, 20:45):  Too late?

Another UPDATE (110614 17:18): Moe Lane weighs in:

Let us say that rebelpundit was in fact a tracker - which is to say, that he was a guy with a camera whose job it was to make someone from the Other Side look bad by getting some embarrassing video footage.  Guess what?  If that had been true, then Mission Freaking Accomplished: and directly because of Holdren’s actions. ... That it happened here demonstrates a lack of training that is in some ways more worrisome than the assault itself.

Via:  Jim Hoft via Insty.

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Meaning we can scratch HIM off the list...

(As if we didn’t have enough reasons already.)

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The EPA gets a three-fer

Kingsport Times-News:

American Electric Power on Thursday announced it plans to shut down several coal-fired power plants, convert or retrofit others, and cut as many as 600 jobs in the next few years to comply with regulations proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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Although some jobs would be created from the installation of emissions reduction equipment, AEP expects a net loss of approximately 600 power plant jobs with annual wages totaling approximately $40 million.
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Businesses... will face the impact of electricity price increases ranging from 10 percent to more than 35 percent...

Hey, less energy capacity, higher prices for whatever’s left, job cuts... looks like Win! Win! Win!

(Via:  JimmieWearingFool)

Elsewhere:

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What about Members of Congressmen?

Reason’s Peter Suderman notes that Tennessee has outlawed

...the [electronic] transmission or display of images that might, under a "reasonable expectation,” "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to anyone who comes across it.

Starting with...?

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No Anthem at Goshen

Insty links to a blast from the 70s, eminating from (of all places) Goshen, Indiana:

The Goshen College Board of Directors announced today that it has asked President James E. Brenneman to find an alternative to playing the Star-Spangled Banner that fits with sports tradition, that honors country and that resonates with Goshen College’s core values and respects the views of diverse constituencies...

The Board expressed a strong commitment to advancing with President Brenneman the vision for Goshen College to be an influential leader in liberal arts education with a growing capacity to serve a theologically, politically, racially and ethnically diverse constituency both within and beyond the Mennonite church.  The Board concluded that continuing to play the national anthem compromised the ability of college constituents to advance the vision together...

"Goshen College has been and remains a ministry of Mennonite Church USA with an enduring peace tradition,” Romero [Carlos Romero, executive director, Mennonite Education Agency] said.  "The Board’s decision reflects a belief that faith and honoring country can co-exist without disturbing higher allegiances to God and that Goshen College will become increasingly diverse and will welcome diverse viewpoints.”

Because some of those "constituents” may feel uncomfortable celebrating America?

There’s a bit more to this story than what’s in the headlines: Goshen hadn’t performed the anthem at sporting events until 2010; the board’s request to look for a substitute is the outcome of a year-long consultation.  And the Mennonites who operate Goshen have a long tradition of pacifism, so it’s not a surprise that some might be uncomfortable lending their imprimatur to words that, at least at the outset, celebrate a successful military action.

But the 70s-vintage "diversity” language in the College’s statement leaves me suspecting that this is as much about pandering to the campus’ racial nationalists/seperatists as it is about pacifism:  Not "give peace a chance,” but the Nation of Islam and La Raza.

Because if their concerns stem from "higher allegiances to God” and the Anthem’s "warlike” opening, they could go a long way toward addressing them not by doing away with the Anthem, but by singing (and understanding) its fourth verse:



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I certainly HOPE not!

The AP on Cong.Weiner:

...the pugnacious 46-year old Brooklyn native, who until this mess was widely seen as one of the smartest members of Congress...

Related: Glenn Reynolds:

The people who think they’re smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else’s lives are risible.  They’re not smart enough to run their own lives competently, and they’re actually, overall, morally inferior — I mean, John Edwards, DSK, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barney Frank, Tax Cheat Tim Geithner, just go down the list...

Which says what about all those beltway and media types who "widely see” these guys as "smart”?

AP Via:  R.S. McCain

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