Questions for ‘The New York Times’

Jerusalem Post  "Among unresolved matters is one evidently too hot for editors to handle. It concerns Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner’s statements on MSNBC revealing a strikingly jaundiced view of Israelis generally. He claimed in a March 8 broadcast that unfavorable views of Barack Obama on the part of the Israeli electorate reflected not just dismay over the policies of the president, but also [here it comes... wait for it....] collective public “prejudice” and “racism.”  ANDREA LEVIN (Emphasis added)

The Quiet Education Overhaul

Heritage "Duncan certainly got the quiet part right. Since his Administration came into office, President Obama has quietly been reworking the country’s education system, doing an end-run around normal legislative procedure. With the U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) funding doubled thanks to the so-called “stimulus,” the Administration has little need or incentive to bother negotiating its education agenda through Congress. Instead, the DOE is using that windfall of funding and power to stage a significant overhaul of local schools; dangling grant money before cash-strapped states on the condition they adopt key pieces of the Obama education agenda. And this is all happening without public consideration..."

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/MichaelRamirez

Pampered Populists

Victor Davis Hanson "It's surreal to see President Obama play the class-warfare card against the Republicans while on his way to vacation on the tony Maine coast, and even more interesting to note that now gone are the days when the media used to caricature Bush I ("Poppy") for boating in the summer off the preppie-sounding Kennebunkport. The truth is that the real big money and the lifestyles that go with it are now firmly liberal Democratic."

Court upholds expulsion of student from public university for Christian beliefs

Mark Hemingway "A few weeks ago we saw a University of Illinois professor who was fired after a student complained that he was teaching Catholic doctrine on homosexuality in a course titled, appropriately enough, “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought.”
"Now a court has upheld the expulsion of a Christian student at a public university in Michigan over her personal beliefs on homosexuality:" Via Beltway Confidential

The Amnesty Memo and the term, "Deferred Action"

National Review "According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American  people through a vote in Congress."

USCIS Draft Memo Leaked Discussing Ways to ByPass Congress on Amnesty "The National Review article claims that the USCIS is thinking about using “Deferred Action”. The Definition of Deferred Action according to the USCIS is:"

“an exercise of prosecutorial discretion not to pursue removal from the U.S. of a particular individual for a specific period of time.”