Campaign Finance Reform

At PrawfsBlawg, an interesting discussion of campaign finance reform. The legal cases are obviously far above me, but it's interesting to see mention of the many cases upon which Citizens United drew legal precedents.

Primary season

It's primary season in Indiana.  And I just got a call from one candidate's campaign that a vote for a particular candidate would result in the Democrat winning the district.

This is the most solidly Republican district in the state.  The caller was blatantly lying.

I regret hanging up before learning which candidate was sponsoring the call.

More problems at UNC

A rather serious case of education fraud at UNC, tied to the previous football program scandal.

An internal investigation into UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of African and Afro-American Studies has found evidence of academic fraud involving more than 50 classes that range from no-show professors to unauthorized grade changes for students.

One of the no-show classes is the Swahili course taken by former football player Michael McAdoo that prompted NCAA findings of impermissible tutoring, and drew more controversy when the final paper he submitted was found to have been heavily plagiarized.

The investigation found many of the suspect classes were taught in the summer by former department chairman Julius Nyang’oro, who resigned from that post in September. The university now says Nyang’oro, 57, who was the department’s first-ever chairman, is retiring July 1.

Either major college athletic programs need closer internal and external review, or there needs to be a conscious decision to split athletics into two groups. A minor league program, with education focused on life skills, for those looking to practice for future play, and college scholarships, guaranteed for five years (i.e. not cancelled for injury, only for bad behavior), for those who are capable of both athletic and academic endeavors.

Another Day of Spending!

Remember the failure that is Occupy Wall Street? You haven't heard much from it lately, as even the sympathetic media has realized that the movement is bad for the Democrats. They don't want another 1968. So you may not have heard their call for a general strike--no working, no spending, etc.--for tomorrow. May 1st, a day which should be spent in contemplation of the hundred million people killed by communism, is the symbolic date for this act of selfishness.

So, as always, I suggest spending! Take tomorrow and purchase all the things you've been putting off buying. Pick up some new clothes. Get the week's groceries. Go out to eat. Order something off of Amazon or eBay. And if you have the resources, send a donation to a Republican political candidate in a likely close race.

If you're part of the true 99%, the people who, regardless of wealth, want to work hard and contribute to society, go out and spend. Spite the worst 1%, the group whose goal in life is to be paid well for ordering other people around and feeling self-fulfilled.

Good Luck

All I can say is, good luck, Colts!

A questionable beef

So Arby's has decided to be a late contributor to the Rush Limbaugh boycott, though they were not a sponsor. So a company who sells fast food at a higher price point, and whose signature product is red meat, thinks pandering to liberals is a good business decision?

I think not.

Legal Insurrection is leading the charge to hold companies like Arby's responsible for their poor decisions.

And the results for March...

According to the temperature records at weather.com, my city had 11 record high temperatures last March (10 in a row, March 13-22), and 2 ties for record high temperatures.

It was a great month, weather-wise.

Summer's here!

Before winter even officially ends, and before the six weeks predicted by Mr. Groundhog passed, we've had temperatures in the 70s and even 80s. I for one am grateful, even if it means my air conditioning has run in March for the first time. I have no love for cold winter weather.

Incidentally, that means my normal game of seeing how long I can go before turning on the air conditioning in my car is already over. Especially knowing I would be driving south, it wasn't worth suffering.