Links and Minifeatures 11 20 Sunday

I must apologize for my lack of spreading link love around these last few days, but between RINO Sightings and this monster that took me a couple of days to think through, I just didn't get it done.



Stop back bright and early tomorrow morning for RINO Sightings. It's set to autopost 3 AM California time, 6 AM Eastern, so those of you on the east coast have some opportunity to look at it before work.

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Carnival of Vanities is up! Recommended: Ruminating Dude debunking the bird flu hysteria, Unrepentant Individual skewering the current politics of abortion,



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What a difference a couple of days makes: House Republicans Eke Out Budget Cut. Okay, so it's only walking towards the path to fiscal discipline, from which they have strayed badly. Still, an encouraging sign.



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Captain's Quarters has a good article up about the head of the Orange County (Florida) NAACP switching his party affiliation from Donkey to Elephant.

Money quotes:

"Ninety percent of those I do business with are Republicans," he said. "Opportunities that have come to my firm have been brought by Republicans."



Just as importantly, he said, he didn't want people to immediately brand — or dismiss — NAACP concerns as synonymous with those of liberal Democrats. "I want this branch to be respected," he said.

This is not only intelligent and long overdue for the NAACP, but a nightmare scenario for the Donkeys, who have been treating minorities like a wholly owned "cash cow" for votes since the seventies.



While I'm on the subject of race politics, La Shawn Barber has an article about a biracial student who wrote a column in the student newspaper against affirmative action. Those minorities of the party of "diversity", "tolerance" and "inclusiveness" were so "supportive" of her that their actions caused her to leave the university she was enrolled in. Is it just me, or did we all take a wrong turn somewhere and end up on stage in a theater of the absurd?