A Christian news service quotesState Board of Education member Connie Morris as blaming the "lying liberal media" for her primary defeat. "The media assassinated me," she said. "They did everything they could to ruin my character, my reputation." She also described those who campaigned against her and the other anti-evolution candidates, which likely includes much of the state’s scientific community, as "a lot of well-funded, loud, obnoxious, rude people who have no ethics and morals, and they don’t bat an eye at lying and manipulating the truth." And she said, "I feel bad for them when they face God on Judgment Day."
Agape Press also stated that "four born-again Christians remain on the State Board of Education" — meaning that it apparently doesn’t consider the other six members to be Christians. And Morris said that the new board majority likely would pass new science standards that "let government schools teach children that we are no more than chaotic, random mutants."
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
The strange confession of John Mark Karr (in photo) in the famously unsolved JonBenet Ramsey murder case has media speculating whether the case is closed or this is just another false lead.There is reason to fear that Karr is just an obsessed kook; several of his reported details (that JonBenet was drugged, that he picked her up from school) don’t jibe with the facts.
But there must be more in the police affidavit that points to Karr as the killer. This article quotes an unnamed law enforcement source as saying that Karr gave graphic details of the girl’s body that were known only to forensic doctors in the case. Sounds like whether there is a DNA match will be critical.
Meanwhile, the media are debating whether they went overboard in casting suspicion on the Ramseys. Jack Shafer of Slate says "no" here.
What do you think of the developments?
Posted by Randy Scholfield
In a column mentioned earlier on this blog, George Will proved that some conservatives at least are willing to face some obvious lessons about our “war on terror” and how best to fight it. He wrote:
“Cooperation between Pakistani and British law enforcement (the British draw upon useful experience combating IRA terrorism) has validated John Kerry’s belief (as paraphrased by the New York Times Magazine of Oct. 10, 2004) that ‘many of the interdiction tactics that cripple drug lords, including governments working jointly to share intelligence, patrol borders and force banks to identify suspicious customers, can also be some of the most useful tools in the war on terror.’ In a candidates’ debate in South Carolina (Jan. 29, 2004), Kerry said that although the war on terror will be ‘occasionally military,’ it is ‘primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world.’”
Kerry was largely right, as the busted plot in London shows: This is, for the most part, about good intelligence and police work and international cooperation — not conventional warfare of the sort we’re waging in Iraq. When will Democrats push a national debate on this point? Or are they afraid of looking weak?
Posted by Randy Scholfield
Wichita schools superintendent Winston Brooks told The Eagle editorial board this week that he doesn’t think the discovery of two starving girls in a Wichita home in July indicates anything should have been handled differently by the district. In fact, personnel at the girls’ school twice reported possible abuse to the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, most recently in May. But Brooks and others in the district have pondered what difference year-round school might have made in that case — and those of the June contract killing of a pregnant 14-year-old and the July discovery of two children in a house with 68 pit bulls. “It kind of makes you wonder,” Brooks said.
It does. At the very least, the emaciated girls would have been able to eat lunch and perhaps breakfast at school.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
When more than 60 people showed up at the Wichita City Council meeting this week to protest the proposed displacement by Starbucks of minority-owned Sarah’s Ice Cream and Bakery at Mid-Continent Airport, council members got the message and instructed city staff to work it out. Given travelers’ stated desire for a Starbucks, the best outcome would be for the airport to have the benefit of both businesses. It certainly needs more such amenities. And the way this episode was handled suggests there is still a lack of sensitivity at City Hall to the concerns of the African-American community. That’s hard to believe, given the steps taken since 2003 in response to charges of institutional racism, including formation of a task force to review city relationships with minority contractors.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
