DMN Opinion Roundup
Mike Hashimoto pokes fun at Dallas City Council candidate Charles "Chazz" Redd, who posed for a photo while shirtless, smiling, and holding two pistols. Maybe Dallas politics does resemble a freak show at times, and sensation sells, but it would be refreshing for Dallas' only daily to cover the suburbs once in a while and do it in a serious fashion.
Rod Dreher serves up another Chicken Little story. This time, Dreher sees Pakistan on the edge of apocalypse. He's going to be right one of these times. And Pakistan is truly a scary place. Unfortunately, Dreher himself has lost the ability to scare readers.
William McKenzie asks a question that he admits to being stumped by: Should Texas legislators exempt students who are not proficient in English from the TAKS test? The question is genius, combining two hot-button issues: student testing with immigration. My answer is simple. Test all students, but track results separately when it makes sense to do so and combine results when it makes sense to do that.
Colleen McCain Nelson keeps a straight face when reporting that the new Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele reassures us that the earth isn't warming, it's actually cooling. Michael Steele is becoming an embarrassment as he panders to the shrinking base of the Republican Party. The party is narrowing itself into irrelevance. It's down to about the five or six conservative wingnuts who, in the comments section, defend Steele and take McCain Nelson to task for her blog post.
Tod Robberson is bothered that President Obama lowered himself to appear on a late-night talk show. Joanna England is bothered that he revealed his common touch by filling out bracket picks for the NCAA basketball tournament. Hey, Presidents aren't kings. It's hard to make the "elite" label stick to this President. He'll take his suit jacket off in the Oval Office once in a while. And sit and talk about basketball and his bowling game, too. It's OK. The Presidency will survive and thrive under Barack Obama. It's about time for an end to form over substance.
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