Quadrupled prop taxes, they had stuff that almost any school district would drool over, and after between $2-$4 BILLION and about 16 years, STILL couldn’t get accredited.

Anyone tells me more money for schools, I ask them to explain KC, MO.

They don’t even know what I’m talking about.

notice how the tone of a pro Kerry Boston Globe reporter is starting to shift.

The anti-Kerry quote was the last one in the article.

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Why was John Kerry mistaken about Christmas eve in Cambodia? Because poor John’s brain was seared. He has never been the same since. He said so himself.

What is the War Hero Afraid of?

Form 180. Release ALL the records.

I said limited defense. I clearly stated that he was out of line in his personal attack on Cheney. I just thought fair is fair. If I am going to cite the risks of service in defense of GWB I felt it necessary to go the extra mile and point out that Harkins’ service was hardly risk free.

Jerry, I agree with you, except in that it appears Harkin claimed to have actually been in combat. Flying fighters, good. Lying about your combat record, bad.

Okay. I suppose a little braggadocio is par for the course with Harkin. But let’s not forget Harkin is still a horse’s ass.

Tying this back down to Kerry, I ran across an article from the good old days when Foreign Ministers Harkin and Kerry were trying to business with another communist, Danny Ortega.

Let’s take a trip down memory lane to 1985:

Reagan was in the middle of a delicate balancing act – seeking the release of a $14 million appropriation for the Nicaraguan resistance.

On the table: an offer to limit U.S. aid to the Contras to humanitarian assistance. The quid pro quo: the Sandinistas would agree to national reconciliation and free elections.

The scene was set for Kerry to bluster into the equation like a bull in a China shop.

Teaming with Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the pair – without portfolio – traveled to Managua to chat with Sandinista junta leader Daniel Ortega.

The result: a meaningless document that State Department experts considered little more than an offer to the Contras to surrender. The Sandinistas made no commitment to national reconciliation, and that was the heart of the matter.

Nonetheless, Kerry raced back to Washington with the document he touted as a “peace proposal.”

“Here,” Kerry boldly pronounced to the Senate, “is a guarantee of the security interest of the United States.”…

But few bought the grandstanding. Overnight, Kerry found himself not the returning hero and peacemaker but a pariah….

A frantic Kerry had his staff seek out anybody willing to praise his efforts. The only takers were Sens. Teddy Kennedy, D-Mass., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., who styled the controversial mission to Managua as a masterstroke forcing a recalcitrant Reagan to parley with the commies.

Ah yes, I remember it well. And to think these two Chamberlains could have accounted for 100% of the Democratic ticket this year.

Now, here you’ve got a point. It seems a bit of a stretch for a court to be able to compel a school district in this way.

But then that wasn’t the original issue — it was the more general, black and white issue of whether a court should be able to “legislate from the bench”.

If we deny courts the ability to override the legislature, we eliminate the primary way it has to protect our rights.

Once we allow for it at all we’re back to arguing whether a particular action was wise or not — and I’d be the last person to suggest that every action of every court has been wise.

So, uh, Sandy — what you want is for the Court to find a “national defense exemption” that’s not written in the law?

I thought we were complaining that the Court was legislating from the bench?

Mort Kondrake, an eminently reasonable man. A man I’ve never been able to figure how he votes, is furious at the ad hominems coming out of Democratic mouths. He says the Democrats have been far worse than the Republicans as far as dirty campaigning goes…which left Juan Williams sputtering and outraged at the very thought.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mort so angry.