Vermont's generally conceded to be a "Blue" state, though in general, folks seem pretty happy there.  However, if you bothered to listen to the rantings of Rodrigo Marquez, deputy counsel for the Mexican consulate in Boston, you'd swear the state was full of Republicans.  Roddy ominously warns that if the folks in Vermont don't get a little more welcoming of Mexican workers employed at dairy farms there, why those workers just might start looking for jobs elsewhere.  This sounds like a win-win situation!  They can start by looking for jobs back in Mexico, where they belong.  According to Roddy, Mexican workers in Vermont have to live in isolation; suffering a constant fear of being deported.  He even claims that "law-abiding Mexican workers are occasionally taken into custody" in Vermont - simply because they appear to be here illegally.

Let's see:  "law-abiding" "illegals".  Roddy seems to have a logic issue. 

Please make this column a read. Well worth your time.
(Hat-tip: Hugh Hewitt)

I am not a huge Steve Jobs fan, but the man does have a keen insight into technology, and good business sense. Thanks to the Houston Chronicle, I find that I agree with Jobs on at least one subject:

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions today, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers. Jobs compared schools to businesses with principals serving as CEOs. "What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn't get rid of people that they thought weren't any good?" he asked to loud applause during an education reform conference. "Not really great ones because if you're really smart you go, 'I can't win.'"