The Irate Nation Est. 2001

“The Madness of Queen Nancy” and other links

• "The Madness of Queen Nancy," John Fund - fta: Indeed, the Speaker's take on Tuesday's off-year elections struck some of her own members as delusive "happy talk." "From our perspective, we won last night," a cheerful Ms. Pelosi told reporters, citing her party's pick-up of a single House seat in a New York special election and retention of another strongly Democratic seat in California.
• "Jesuit Message Drives Detroit's Last Catholic School," Amy Sullivan - the statistics on Detroit in this article are shocking.
• "Parents of student beaten to death on campus billed for resuscitation efforts" - a stunning but perhaps accurate example of how institutions of higher education regard those in their charge, those paying their bills. Yes, it was a mistake - that makes it all the more telling in a way.
• From my blog: "Does the Earth belong to the living?"