The Atlantic: Barely a third of U.S. senators pay their interns — and embarrassingly for Democrats, a party focused on workplace welfare, most of them are Republicans.

Its not a bug, it's a feature: Paper: Obama’s Proposal to Limit Tax Deductions for High-Income Donors Would Undermine Charitable Giving.

That way the Feds can have more control over who gets what.

THE HISTORY OF SPENDING FREEZES: “During long periods in American history, flat budgeting was the norm. For the first 150 years of the nation’s existence, federal policymakers generally restrained spending and reduced debt between wars.  .....  Consider that if Congress simply held total spending to this year’s level of $3.5 trillion, the budget would be balanced by 2016 as the growing economy generated rising tax revenue.”

HEY, THEY FORGAVE HIM FOR THE FIRST ONE: Will Democrats Forgive Obama for Blowing His Second Term? “

I have seventeen students in mt Remedial English class.  Two are fine.  Five are fighting ESL and winning.  Three gave up week one.

The rest?  I realized the problem this morning when reviewing rough drafts of final projects.  They're trying to write the way THEY THINK smart people write.  Instead of writing well (short, concise sentances mainly) they try to "impress" me with fancy contructions (that clunk,) long, nested sentances, and "cute" approaches.

JUST WRITE!  The "smart" part comes later.  When you ARE!

I want Congress to authorize something I don’t believe they need to authorize, and which I reserve the right to do anyway whether or not they authorize it, in order that I might defend the credibility of a red line I didn’t actually draw, so that I may take decisive action that will not in any way affect the momentum of the Syrian civil war or, if it accidentally does, al-Qaeda will the stronger for it, in order that I might have a chance to do what I have spent a decade yelling about other people doing.

Obama Inflates The Higher Education Bubble.

What was the dumbest idea of the summer of 2013: Ignoring previous Syrian chemical attacks? The? Massachusetts tech tax? Letting Miley Cyrus pick out her own clothes?

How about this one:

Telling college kids that if they spend six years running up a student loan tab getting an unmarketable diploma, they’ll only have to pay back a fraction of what they borrowed. In fact, the less valuable their degree and the more money they borrow — the more they win!

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DOJ Sues Louisiana Alleging its School Choice Program “Impedes the Desegragation Process” We're from the governmet and we're here to help!

They weren't anti-war, they were just on the other side: Research: 2000s anti-war movement was really just anti-Republican. Do tell.

An interesting chart from Slate. 

‘To my knowledge, I have no knowledge’ — The Best Tweets During the Kerry-Hagel Buttfumble Briefing on Syria.

JIM TREACHER: “I’m fine with Obama invading Syria for war crimes. Just don’t pretend it’s any different than what you’ve been screaming about for 10 years.”

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says ‘dozens’ of countries stand with US on Syria, can’t name them.

Allison Benedikt: If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person. Does that mean she thinks Barack and Michelle are bad people? Racist.

CONFEDERACY: The New Democratic Talking Point. It’s said of the Austrians that they do their best to convince the world that Hitler was a German and Beethoven was an Austrian. Likewise, the Dems would like you to believe that Jefferson Davis was a Republican, and Abraham Lincoln a Democrat.

I don't think that word means what you think it means: MSNBC's Matthews: 'Great Irony' That Only Two GOP Senators Voted Against Voting Rights Act

HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: WSJ: A history note for President Obama: Bull Connor was not a libertarian.

L.A. Times Mangles History: Democrats 'Led the Passage of Civil Rights Legislation' in the Sixties?

We'll do what we can to help: Pelosi: I Don't Want to Be Speaker Again

YOU KNOW THERE’S A DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHEN YOU SEE HEADLINES LIKE THIS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: Bomb Syria, Even if It Is Illegal.

Flashback: Biden Threatens Bush Impeachment For Military Strike Without Congressional Approval. 

'So We’re Bombing Syria Because Syria Is Bombing Syria? And I’m the Idiot?'

President Obama riles with reference to ‘my military.’ All through the day, I me mine I me mine I me mine. Hey, Prez: You didn’t build that.

A question for John Kerry:  “How do you ask a man to be the [first] man to die for a mistake?”

Here’s a counterfactual: If President McCain were seeking authorization to use force against Syria, how would Sen. Obama vote? Er, “present?”

Time: Syria Intervention Would Reaffirm Obama’s Biggest Flip-Flop: He was explicit in 2007 that Presidents don’t have the authority to act unilaterally except to stop ‘an actual or imminent threat.

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama Indicts Obama.

One of the problems that Barack Obama has in mounting an attack against the Assad regime is that the gambit violates every argument Barack Obama used against the Bush administration to establish his own anti-war candidacy.

The hypocrisy is so stunning that it infuriates his critics and stuns his supporters.

"Obama's history-defying decision to seek Congressional approval on Syria." As Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds noted a short time ago: "You can read this entire article about Obama going to Congress over Syria without seeing any mention that Bush went to Congress over Iraq and Afghanistan." 

President Bush complains about Nancy Pelosi’s visit with Assad: “Bush said Pelosi’s trip signals that the Assad government is part of the international mainstream when it is not.”

Even Obama Agrees: There's No Imminent Threat From Syria

OUCH: Conan: Syria’s Assad called Pres Obama “weak.” Obama was so angry he plans to ask Congress for permission to think up a good comeback.

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