Democrats seem eager to push through a new "Hush Rush" bill under the guise of "fairness".  It'd bring "more balance to the media", or so they claim.  In point of fact, it would do nothing of the sort.  Liberals control most of the print and television media, but since the 1987 demise of the "fairness" doctrine under President Reagan, conservatives found a toehold in the relatively uncharted area of talk radio.  Once that happened, the medium exploded as conservative talk radio launched once obsure stations off the charts.

You can imagine how the Dems felt about that.  So they launched their own, "progressive" talk shows.  The only problem with it was the fact that in a free marketplace, they all failed - and failed miserably.  Well, nobody said it was going to be easy.  Undeterred, they set up their own "network" and brought in wanna-be funny guy Al Franken to spearhead the assault on listeners' ears, hearts, and minds.

You know already that those millions of hard-working illegal aliens are only here to do the jobs that Americans won't do.  Why, the Shrub himself has said it, over and over and over "hello, do you believe me now?".

Frankly, George - no, we don't.

Thank God for human-caused Global Warming!  Early reports indicate that about 3/4 of the California citrus and most of the strawberries have been killed by freezing temperatures.  This means that they won't need to hire a whole lot of "hard-working" illegal aliens to pick the crops, which should lead to a significant reduction in the overall taxpayer burden as hospital emergency rooms become available once again to treat actual emergencies, rather than Jose's kid with a case of the sniffles.

As noted previously here, Multnomah Education Service District Board member Ron Chinn referred to special-education kids as "slabs" - "slow. low, and below" - and the Board was prepared to undertake a vote to censure him.  They went a bit further, asking for his resignation.  Unsurprisingly, Chinn resorted to the old "the dog ate my homework" excuse:

"I made a terrible, terrible mistake," he said. "I was ill. I didn't understand. . . . I was a special education student myself. I know what it is like to feel that way."

The sun was in my eyes; there were locusts.

He represents Southwest and Southeast Porland, and hasn't yet decided whether to run for re-election in May.