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Yes, I’m still in DC and therefore, yes, the site is still in Beta. But I couldn’t pass this one up.

As Pejman Yousefzadeh succinctly points out, the Obama administration “is doing immense damage to the educational environment in D.C.” through their botched handling of the school choice issue. The President sends his children to a prestigious private school which, through his Administration’s callousness, will soon see the exile of voucher students; disadvantaged students who will be shuffled off to the public school system. I guess you could could say Obama thinks they should be with their own kind. It goes without saying that if a Republican were kicking poor kids out of his own children’s private school the reaction would be somewhat more … agitated than that which greets Obama’s disregard.

As Andrew Coulson notes, the voucher program in DC is actually successful and cost-effective, contrary to union-provided standard issue Democrat objections. I would add that fear of the inability of the state to indoctrinate children plays a role for the overtly statist modern Democratic party. But perhaps no one has made a more stirring illustration of the tragedy in DC than Redstate.com’s favorite political cartoonist, Toby Dials:

If you don’t know who Ruby is, click through:

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PROTESTING BUSH 2008

The Huffington Post, amid their thousands of column inches, hundreds of stories, and thousands of photos dedicated to discussing why the tea parties are stupid and unworthy of attention, recently and snarkily compiled their list of the Top Ten Most Offensive Tea Party Signs, the purpose of which, like that CNN hack what’s her name, is to mock the parties as stupid, fringe, lunatic or racist. (h/t Tommy Christopher)

A frequent complaint by those on the left who would make pretense that the tea parties are insignificant is the whiny “where were you when Bush was in office?” As if to say the parties aren’t genuine, because the participants didn’t hold them at earlier points in time. Jonah Goldberg handily wipes out that pathetic line of reasoning here, but I still have a remaining question for the HuffPo. Where was YOUR interest in offensive signage the last few years?

We already know the answer with regard to that CNN hack what’s her name. She was cheering it on. But hey, maybe the HuffPosers simply aren’t aware. Hmm? Maybe they missed out on the worst of the left? Well let’s not leave them in the dark shall we? In honor of the HuffPosers recently discovered sense of propriety, we herein generously offer, in a convenient and easy to reference guide, a sampling of the worst of the left protests of the last few years, which they may now happily denounce. You’re welcome, Huffers. (I call them Huffers, now. We’re tight like that.)

I’ll start with a charming, not safe for work video, and then we’ll go below the fold. I filmed this concerned citizen at the Democratic Convention in Denver this past fall. He was at the massive “Recreate 68/World Can’t Wait” protest, and his particular affiliation is a group called “USA Off The Planet”. Get those angry keyboards ready to denounce, Huffers:

The rest of that video featured me and the fat guy cursing at each other, so I clipped it for relevance. Note how the other protesters come to this speaker’s aid when he’s confronted. He wasn’t a fringe interloper, that sentiment is mainstream at leftwing protests. Do let’s go on …
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Throughout the campaign and on into January of this year:

February’s phase II:

March and April “World Apology Tour” theme:

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Consider this an OPEN THREAD.

Ok, new push on design this weekend, and will be implementing charter donor board, featuring custom photoshops. Meanwhile, watch this:

(h/t Brian Simpson)

The left and the press (but I repeat myself) are falling all over each other in their haste to congratulate Obama and his manly response to the pirates. A retch-worthy visit to the comments section of left blogs reveals revolting mission-accomplished-gasms and endless reposts of photo fakes featuring Obama being cool or hip with the words “I Got This” adoringly emblazoned upon the savior of the West. To say the fawning adoration is grotesque would be a dramatic understatement and an insult to the merely grotesque.

There is little surprise in adoring Obamatons rewriting the story to evoke a man of action yelling “Charge!” After all, we’re in the midst of an “overseas contingency operation” and this hostage taking was a “man-caused disaster”. So it makes perfect sense to change Obama voting “present” into “come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” That’s how newspeak works. It’s not reality, however.
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I’m making design changes tonight. Site may go down. No Daily Pulse therefore. I’m getting decent beta traffic, so to you all, thanks!
– c

I’ve just put this live in the store. Wear it to a tea party!

Simply awesome:

Cuban Black Caucus

Click on the image to view all of Toby’s editorial genius at Redstate.