The Washington Times is reporting on a move to add two seats to the US House of Representatives: One each for the District of Columbia, and one more for Utah.

This is, essentially, a deal that has been struck to balance the addition of a seat for DC which would be solid (D)socialist, with a "safe" Republican seat. the (D)s have been trying to add the DC seat for a long time, but the (R)s were not about to let it happen without a piece of the action to balance the seat on their side. The glories of a two-party )no thrid parties need apply) system never cease to amaze me.

So, we go from 435 to 437 Representatives. What does that do for the rest of us, outside of DC and Utah? Not much that I can see.

There is a policy concerning the use of race in school placement involving Seattle up before the SCOTUS, and the loyal defenders of Seattle liberalism, the PU PI, has gone unhinged to defend it.

The case involves the Seattle open choice policy, where parents could ask to send their students to particular schools instead of depending on district boundaries, and its use of race as a tiebreaker.

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Seattle's school racial-tiebreaker case

Seattle Public Schools will be under a constitutional microscope Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the district acted properly when it used race to assign students to its most popular schools

Can this be right?  All these years after the landmark Brown v Board of Education case which intergrated schools, why is race a factor again?

The case asks fundamental questions about the extent to which governments can use race to promote diversity, Kmiec said.