Morning Briefing: Conservative Voters Should Give Bobby Jindal a Chance

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Conservative Voters Should Give Bobby Jindal a Chance While we are still a few months from the start of the voting and the need to get this down to a 2 or 3 candidate race (as it should be by early/mid March), time is already running short for the oversized 2016 GOP field to contract and winnow out at least 6 or 7 of the dark-horse candidates. For the good of the party, given the sprawling size of the 14-candidate field (originally 16, before Rick Perry and Scott Walker honorably bowed out), people need to step aside and stop draining money, polling support and TV time away from center stage, and let the voters decide among the survivors who have a real chance of soldiering on through the spring. Along the way, some interesting and/or qualified candidates who might have gone further in another year – Chris Christie, John Kasich, even onetime poll frontrunners Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) – may fall by the wayside. So may two candidates who actually did go further in past years: Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee. But as that winnowing process kicks into gear, conservatives and Republicans ought to give another long look at the best candidate in either party's 2016 field: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. Read More

John Bel Edwards Skipped A Family Forum For THIS John Bel Edwards made it into the Louisiana gubernatorial runoff with Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) and immediately began pounding the snot out of Vitter for the old prostitution scandal about which Vitter has apologized completely. Edwards could have really made hay about the issue at a social values forum held by Louisiana's Family Forum last night. Except Edwards bailed on the family forum to go to Lyve Night Club in New Orleans, which advertised Bell's appearance on its Instagram page, as you can see… Read More

The Latest California School System Craze: Retroactive Deeming A few months ago, I noted how California Gov. Jerry Brown had delivered an early Christmas gift to the teachers' unions by "deeming" a bunch of kids as "graduated" despite their never having actually met the state's graduation requirements. Basically just bypassing the state's own education standards and saying "whatever, here's your participation degree." It turns out the situation is even worse than that post outlined. Much, much worse. While there was some justification for deeming students who hadn't passed their graduation exam this year graduated anyway, since there were contracting issues with the exam provider, it turns out that it wasn't just those kids Brown was preparing to deem "graduated." Read More

Burn Baby Burn: #ConcernedStudent1950 Can End Academia as we Know it "Academic freedom" used to be one of the major issues that the radical left paid close attention to. The modern institution of tenure, and the presumption that academic professors would keep their jobs in good behavior, dates back to the intense competition for professors after World War II. So while political pressures were considered, tenure was primarily used as a bargaining chip. Read More

Sweden, Borders, and Donald Trump Sweden has decided that they have accepted enough migrants, and so they have decided to institute border controls on basically all methods of transit into the country. For Sweden, it's simply a matter of how many of these migrants they can realistically afford to hold, and also a growing concern about the effect of the migrant crisis on public health. Read More Sponsored

Gender Confusion in the Bathroom: Coming Soon to a City Near You Now, fresh off the heels of all this chaos in Houston, brews a storm three and a half hours north in Dallas. The Dallas City Council has unanimously (in case you've forgotten, that means every single one of them actually agreed on this) approved an amendment to its anti-discrimination ordinance, similar to HERO. But was it even needed? Read More

Chris Christie Uses Hillary Clinton as a Pinata I'm not a fan of Chris Christie as a presidential candidate but when he focuses his attacks on Democrats, there may not be a better candidate in the field. On Veterans Day, Christie was on the road in Bettendorf, Iowa, and eschewing the Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and John Kasich tactic of attacking Republicans, he went after Hillary Clinton: Read More

Sponsored Why Does Chris Matthews Think Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are Not Hispanic? I don't know if Chris Matthews has a drinking problem but he gives a great approximation of the old guy at the bar who is about half in the bag at lunch time… and who you'll find there again after work. I don't mean to disparage Matthews's ethnicity, because he is apparently (according to Wikipedia) half Irish, and if he does have a problem we all certainly hope he dries out, but I bring it up as I search for possible explanations for some of his behavior. Read More

#ConcernedStudent1950 and the Stolen Valor of the Civil Rights Movement There is a term for a person who pretends to military honors they did not receive, either by wearing a uniform when they never served, or faking awards or commendations they did not receive: Stolen Valor. Stolen Valor is rightly considered one of the most deeply offensive things in America, and those who are found guilty of it are considered worthy of universal approbation. It takes a very low form of scum indeed to dishonor the courage and sacrifice of those who truly have served in the military by attempting to falsely claim the justified honor that goes with it. Read More

What Lies are the FBI going to Unearth in the Hillary Clinton Server Scandal? The ongoing dumpster fire for Democrats that was Hillary Clinton's insanely risky email security strategy – to put it in the simplest terms, she didn't have one – has sparked a lot of concern, speculation, and cynicism. The concern is: What did Hillary Clinton's incompetence reveal to our rivals and enemies? The speculation is: What will the FBI find? And the cynicism is: At what point will Barack Obama swoop in and derail the investigation? Read More

Senior Republican Aides Lie about Congressman Tom Price The congressional jockeying over legislation that would block a federally recognized Indian nation from opening a Las Vegas-style casino on reservation land in Arizona reached a disturbing crescendo last week. Senior advisers to a group of House Republican lawmakers misled columnists and reporters about the measure's projected cost to taxpayers. Read More Sponsored

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