Written by: Beck

A few things that deserve comment but don't quite merit a whole post of their own:

Tyranny of the majority watch: Poll: Wealthy should bolster Social Security. It's called socialism. Also known as theft.

More than two-thirds of 1,010 adults contacted from Friday to Sunday said it would be a good idea to limit benefits for wealthier retirees and for higher income workers to pay Social Security taxes on all their wages.

That's right, just have the wealthy pay or everything until they're as poor as anyone else. And then bitch at them afterwards when they either shelter all their income from taxation or move to Bermuda.

What a novel idea: pay teachers according to how well they do their job. A principle which the corporate world has understood since, well, for as long as their have been corporations is just now being discovered by the education bureaucrats. Well, better late than never I guess.

Are the British becoming a nation of sissies? Actually, the over-legislating of nanny-state laws afflicts all of the Western world, America included. The Brits (and Europeans generally) just have it worse. For now.

Finally, the New York Sun has an interesting article reporting on a speech Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz delivered to Columbia University in New York. It's nice to see someone from inside the walls of academia speaking out against the anti-Semetic atmosphere within many schools' Middle Eastern studies departments.