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This past weekend, Sedgwick County (Kansas) Democrats held a "fiesta" mocking Kansas Sec. of State Kris Kobach and dubbing him the "Secretary of Hate."

Kris, as many of you know, is an immigration attorney who fights for American sovereignty and for victims of crime.

Look at the disrespectful photo they used to promote the fundraiser which was held in 'honor' of Sec. Kobach's birthday.




Here's how the 'Rats sold it: "We can think of no better way to help Kris celebrate his 45th birthday, than with a celebration of Hispanic culture. There will be Mexican food, piñatas, a mariachi band and speakers. Speakers will address Kobach’s dangerous policies of voter disenfranchisement, radical, expensive immigration reform and what this means for Kansas."

Donors who kicked in at least $50 were given a "Kobach Gringo" teeshirt.

One Kansas media outlet breezily described the Kobach hatefest as a "tongue-in-cheek party."

Call 316-262-7534, or email krinker@sedgwickcountydemocrats.com to complain.

1 in 8 Chance to Get Accepted into Amherst College

Learn what it takes to get to live among the Marxists of Amherst, and be taught by them.

And would you believe the president of Amherst College is named Anthony Marx?

That's Tony in the photo.

HT: James F.

Final Four's New First Lady

Meet Maya Payne Smart, the wife of the Exciting New Kid on the Block in college basketball - Coach Shaka Smart of Virginia Commonwealth University. Maya is quite accomplished in her own right, and she's going to become a mother this year.

On Saturday, the VCU Rams will play Butler in the Final Four. The underdogs, with the 33-year-old head coach, vs. the Bulldogs, with the 34-year-old head coach.

I like that Brad Stevens, the Butler coach, is a one-of-a-kind risk taker. He quit his job in corporate America, in 2000, to become a volunteer (yes, you read that correctly) for the Bulldogs' hoops programs. He was planning to work at an Applebee's to supplement his income.

Eleven years later, Butler's administration 'is doing everything they can' to keep Coach Stevens.

As well they should.

Cheesy Update: Matt Howard by Rick Reilly. I LOVE how this man writes, and I LOVE how Matt plays.

Libya: Rand's Eloquent Dissent

Update: Senator Dr. Paul is seriously thinking about running for president.

Einstein 2.0

This appears to be the right day for 'window/animal blogging' (see below). My friend, Ana, shares that she was inspired by a 12-year-old math prodigy named Jacob Barnett who, on occasion, uses a glass window pane to calculate calculus problems. The Daily Mail reveals "that Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role." The DM article also says that the lad was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome as a wee child.

Look for Igor the doggie.

Hey, Hey, We're the Monkeys!

The view from my kitchen window; it's nearly April, and there's still snow on the ground.

Gimme Mo'

Well, lookee here. Augustana College, which is located in Illinois and has ties to Evangelical Luthern Church of America, has invited Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, to speak to the students, this week, at the college's "White Privilege Summit 2011."

A fine choice. Lawyuh Dees, of course, is an expert on the topic. How many white folks, after all, rate a 60-page spread of their fancy home in the Montgomery-Advertiser?

How many white folks run charities with a $200 million+ war chest?

How many white men have a trophy wife? (That's her in the clear coat.)

The college has also invited a 'masculinities' expert - Dr. Tracy Davis (in the photo) - to speak his mind at this summit.

This is a preview of what Dr. Davis will be addressing: "Contemporary discourses regarding men and masculinities are stagnated by an overly simplistic view of privilege and oppression, as well as 'essentialized' notions of identity. To more deeply effect change, educators need to tease out the subtle nuances of lived identities, intersections between identities, and contextual influences on the performance of identities. This session situates men's development within the socially-constructed contours of hegemonic masculinity. If men are not simply the agents of oppression (although this is one dimension), but also negatively impacted by it, men's investment in change takes on new meaning."

Uh-huh. Right, buddy. I think I'd prefer to listen to Dees yammer on about his phony hate map.

Some dare call this education.

The British Norman Rockwell (Sort of)

Artwork, by William Henry Knight, from the 1800s: English boy draws his grandpa as his doting, humble family watch.

More of Mr. Knight's work is here.

Finally: The Final Four

Efficient summary, by Andy Katz, of Butler, VCU, UConn, & Kentucky.

What a Shaka!

The Virginia Commonwealth Rams, of Richmond, are going to the Final Four, after beating and outplaying the fierce Kansas Jayhawks. How sweet it is, especially since so many of sports talking heads, like Dick Vitale (in the banner above), thought VCU shouldn't even be in the tournament! A true Cinderella team has arrived at the Big Dance, thanks, in no small part, to Shaka Smart, the 33-year-old VCU head coach.



Coach Smart with Joey "J-Rod" Rodriguez, VCU guard

Sunday Inspiraton: The Late Keith Green

Here's the lyrics to his "Prodigal Son Suite." Take a listen; it's a moving piece of music. Fiery Christian evangelist Keith, and two of his small children, died in 1982 in a small airplane crash.

Protest as Pageantry

The UK's socialist protestors complain in style.

Freeloaders by Stossel

Update: The show will re-air tomorrow, 3/27, at 9pm and midnight ET.

Last night journalist John Stossel's Fox television special, about individuals, corporations, and groups who freeload off the taxpayers, aired. The show was outstanding! A ten. The clip below is a preview to one of the taboo topics tackled. Stossel unambiguously states, "No group in America has been more helped by the government than the American Indians ... but 200 years later no group does worse. The Indians that get out of government management - they thrive in America." To that end, Stossel interviewed Ben Chavis, a Lumbee Indian who is opposed to the concept of "federal recognition." Read more about Chavis here.



In this clip, Stossel discusses his experience as a freeloader:

Cracking the BYU Code: No D

My son insisted I read this very witty take down, by Rick Reilly, of the mighty Jimmer Fredette and his 'pizza-delivery' boys.

Dissent: My husband, the compassionate conservative coach, thinks Reilly was too hard on the Jimmer.

Glenn Beck to Discuss Fed, Late This Afternoon

Mr. Beck's TV show (at 5:00 EST) will feature the author of the The Creature from Jekyll Island which is an exposé of the Federal Reserve system and also explains how the entity came into existence. Reviews of G. Edward Griffin's classic work are available at Amazon.

Review: Good effort by Glenn with complex material, but, honestly, the show was on the dry side ... Zzzz. And some of the responses, by the two guests, to the questions posed by Glenn (and the studio audience) amounted to glittering generalities.

Update: The prolific Raven Clabough liked what she saw and heard.

Apple Forbids Traditionalists

Perez Hilton takes a refreshingly libertarian stance toward the Exodus International iPhone/iPad app controversy. The EI app, which was available at Apples' iTunes store for free, permitted access to the Christian organization's videos, podcasts, and social networking tools.

Exodus International is fairly straightforward about its philsophy. The organization "upholds heterosexuality as God’s creative intent for humanity, and subsequently views homosexual expression as outside of God’s will." Since the app imbroglio, EI has taken pains to 'debunk the myths' that they promote hate speech or that they are in the business of 'curing' sexual behavior.

The Montreal Gazette quotes an Apple spokesperson, Tom Neumayr, who said, "We removed the Exodus International app from the App Store because it violated our developer guidelines by being offensive to large groups of people." Over 146,000 supporters of gay rights signed a petition encouraging Apple to remove the app.

Chuck Colson came out swinging on this one, reminding his readers that Apple also axed the Manhattan Declaration (which supports traditionl marriage) app.

Boston Globe Reports on White Flight

Diversity backlash in liberal Massachusetts? Say it ain't so! Or, is it the high taxes, dominance of public-sector unions, family-unfriendly values, unaffordable housing, rampant secularism, crime, crowding, or all of the above?

Update: A CBS news story about the census notes that increasing numbers of young African-American families are moving to the South (from places like Chicago and Detroit) for the jobs and for the affordable housing.

Coach Donovan: Abstains (from Commenting)

What it's come to. Where's Tebow when you need him? My take on this morality play-by-play you missed it the first time.

Mystery near the Southern Border

The investigation of the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz has yielded very little. The Arizona Daily Star has the latest.

Fodder for Big Education*

A fella hired to be the Kennesaw State University provost turns out to be an out-of-the-closet Marxist. The uproar (probably among the more conservative factions of Cobb County, GA where the school is located) over the disclosure resulted in Timothy Chandler (in the photo), a Brit, withdrawing "his acceptance of the position."

He would have earned $229,000 as KSU's number two educrat.

The first page of the controversial paper (25,000 words!) where Dr. Chandler reveals his fondness for Karl M. is here. El mucho gobbledygook.

The anti-capitalist references are cited here.

Kent State University where Dr. Chandler is employed is happy he won't be leaving Ohio, since the administration apparently prizes overpaid Marxists who churn out gobbledygook.

The other KSU, however, is relieved that Dr. Chandler is no longer a player.

*see post below