Dan Patrick and David Dewhurst will be debating tonight at 7 PM.
Dewhurst trailed Patrick badly in the Lt. Governor primary, so he has the most to gain from a good showing. Unfortunately for him, his debates with Ted Cruz showed him to be a bad debater. Unless he’s managed to radically improve his debating skills, this could be the final nail in his coffin…
Here’s another data point for the Texas vs. California debate: U-Haul rates from California to Texas are still over double those from Texas to California:
Torrance, CA to Plano, TX: $2,626
Plano, TX to Torrance, CA: $1,264Los Angeles, CA to Dallas, TX: $2,558
Dallas TX to Los Angeles: $1,232
Torrence to Plano, of course, being Toyota’s move from their old to their new U.S. corporate headquarters…
“Bo Delp, spokesman and former communications director for Sen. Wendy Davis’ campaign for governor, has resigned.”
(By the way, Delp seems to go by Dr. Robert Delp for his resume.)
The Davis campaign has been roundly criticized from all sides (including liberal pundits and members of the press) for continued organizational problems and a candidate who did not appear to be ready for prime time. But for her spokesman to leave the most important, high profile, and well-funded Democratic campaign in Texas, things there must be even more dysfunctional than they appear.
Delp said Thursday that he is “considering a number of other opportunities in Texas Democratic politics.” Yes, because there are so many Texas Democrats with a higher profile than Wendy Davis.
Also, this bit is hardly reassuring for voters who want Davis to actually represent Texans and Washington, not just be another tool of the liberal elite:
“Zac Petkanas, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s former communications director, became Davis’ communications director in March.”
Evidently getting her money out-of-state wasn’t enough for Davis; now she has to import her personnel from the national Democratic Party elite as well…
(Hat tip: Moe Lane.)
Remember that tomorrow is May 1st, which means its time to observe Victims of Communism Day again, since the victims of a brutal ideology that killed over 100 million people deserve their own day of remembrance.
Here’s an Amazon carousel widget featuring a small selection of books on victims of communist oppression (and doesn’t seem to cause the redirect problem).
Here’s a link to The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, who also have an online museum about the Gulag.
More on estimating just how many people communism killed on R. J. Rummel’s Democide page.
I’ve temporarily disabled the Amazon widgets in the right sidebar since one was automatically redirecting the entire page to Amazon upon load. What the hell, Amazon?
My apologies if anyone ran into this problem.
Big news, as one of the world’s largest car makers decides to abandon tax-and-spend California for the Lone Star State:
California has become infamous with business executives and owners there not only for high tax rates and complex taxing schemes but also for overzealous regulations and regulators that have managed to stifle the entrepreneurial energy of thousands of companies.
Not so much a #LinkSwarm per se, as a roundup of news you might have missed over the weekend:
Unless you follow the NBA, you may be unaware that owner Donald Sterling’s Los Angeles Clippers were, until very recently, regarded as one of the worst-run franchise’s in the league. Between moving to Los Angeles in 1983 and 2010, they only had two winning seasons.
The Clippers have recently been on the upswing, having drafted one All Star (Blake Griffin) and traded for another one (Chris Paul), that Sterling wisely let have more input in composing and running the team. The input Sterling has on running the team, the better they tended to do. So the Clippers are in the playoffs in the powerhouse NBA West. Things were looking up.
Well they were, until Sterling was recorded as telling his hot young girlfriend that he doesn’t want her seen in public with black people.
It takes an extra-special brand of stupid for a man who owns a team in a league with predominately black players, with one and half black superstars on his team (Griffin is half-black, half-leprechaun) and a black coach (Doc Rivers) to be caught saying he doesn’t like black people. It’s tantamount to declaring “I never want to have another big name NBA free agent come to my team ever again!”
Now, as for why I’m blogging it here: Though Sterling hasn’t been active giving campaign donations recently, guess which political party to which all the candidates receiving his donations belonged?
Go ahea(D). Guess.
STERLING, DONALD BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90210 BEVERLY HILLS PROPERTIES 11/30/89 $1,000 Bradley, Bill (D)
STERLING, DONALD BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90210 BEVERLY HILLS PROPERTIES 11/30/89 $1,000 Bradley, Bill (D)
STERLING, DONALD BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90212 9/27/91 $1,000 Davis, Gray (D)
STERLING, DONALD MR BEVERLY HILLS,CA 90212 REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER 9/9/91 $1,000 Leahy, Patrick (D)
I’m guessing the NBA will give him a token fine, but little more. One dumbass owner makes it just a little easier for all the other teams…
Pressed for time, so here’s a quick LinkSwarm:
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of Michigan voters in banning Affirmative Action (i.e, discrimination based on race) in college admissions
Conservatives and libertarians have a very simple position on racial discrimination:
The liberal position can be paraphrased thus: “Racism requires racism, because racism.”
What, you think that’s a bit reductio ad absurdum? Fine. How about:
“Because the lingering effects of institutional racism continue to hold back historically disadvantaged groups*, the federal government must continue to impose preferential treatment for members of those groups.”
“*Historically disadvantaged groups” are those that in pre-PC speak were referred to as “minorities.” Except of course, the Democratic Party’s current formulation excludes Asians from preferential treatment, resulting in systematic discrimination against them by colleges that practice Affirmative Action compared to less qualified black and Hispanic candidates.
Left unsaid is when do we stop discriminating against people based on their race due to the “lingering effects” of racism? Why should someone born in 1996 (as those entering college this fall) be discriminated against due to laws scrapped three decades before they were born?
It is also obvious that Affirmative Action sets up minorities to fail by mismatching them with institutions desperate for “diversity” where they will be at a disadvantage compared to brighter students. So someone who could have been in the middle of their class at, say, Texas Tech, is instead at the very bottom of the class at Harvard or Yale.
Affirmative Action is a racist relic of bygone days and should be eliminated from a free, colorblind society.