John Roberts -- the white man's Clarence Thomas (except that his wife's not black) and other found objects on the Internets

From the fair Lady Penelope in a Catch.com discussion of John Roberts:

[W]hile his family freaks me out, he seems slightly more moderate than I was expecting to get. I'm hoping he pulls a fast one on Bush and winds up like Souter, but who knows? He could be a white man's Clarence Thomas. Actually, Clarence Thomas is the white man's Clarence Thomas, but you get the idea.

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Cato Institute's thrifty ways to pay for Katrina, via WaPo via Independent Report.

To reach $62 billion in savings, Cato Institute analysts Chris Edwards and Stephen Slivinski have proposed cutting NASA in half, slashing energy research and subsidies just as Congress is gearing up to increase them in the face of soaring gasoline prices, cutting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' budget by $4.6 billion after its levees failed to protect New Orleans, and eliminating $4.2 billion in homeland security grants while lawmakers are debating the nation's lack of preparedness.

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And can you guess where this rant from FrontPage Magazine is heading.

California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) opened in 1995 on the former Fort Ord Army Base through President Clinton’s “Peace Dividend,” that Democratic plan to exploit President Reagan’s triumph over the Soviet Empire to devastate our military and intelligence services. Now, a former, thriving military community has become a Marxist boot camp and bastion for radical, militant, racial identity-politics as well as a refuge for academic hacks. The conflict I experienced while teaching at CSUMB and the resulting actions taken against me are the topics of the latter half of this article.