Malfeasance

Democrats Behaving Badly
The Justice Department filed fraud and conspiracy charges on Friday against former Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., saying that he used about $750,000 in campaign money for personal expenses that included a Michael Jackson fedora and cashmere capes. (NYT, 2/15/2013)

A former mayor of San Diego (Maureen O'Connor) spent the last decade wagering more than a billion dollars at casinos across the country, eventually liquidating her savings, auctioning her belongings, selling off real estate, borrowing from friends and taking more than $2 million from a charity set up by her late husband, a fast-food tycoon. (NYT, 2/14/2013)

A friend of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and Democratic Party mega-donor Dr. Salomon Melgen may have mistakenly confirmed more details of the senator’s alleged wrongdoing. (Breitbart.com, 2/13/2013)

A Nevada assemblyman has been arrested after allegedly intimidating a fellow state representative with physical violence, KTNV relates. Several reports, including the Las Vegas Sun, say 40-year-old assemblyman Steven Brooks was arrested with a loaded gun after threatening to shoot Democratic Speaker-elect Marilyn Kirkpatrick. (theblaze.com, 1/20/2013)

Former Chelsea Housing Authority chief Michael E. McLaughlin has agreed to plead guilty to four federal charges of deliberately concealing his huge salary from state and federal regulators from 2008 until he resigned in 2011, according to an agreement filed in federal court today. (Boston Globe, 2/13/2013)

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Lamentations
At Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, students are perpetually lamenting the fact that their excellent Midwestern school isn’t mentioned more often with Ivy-caliber powerhouses. Well, this story probably isn’t going to help. Campus Reform reports that Wash. U hosted numerous porn stars in its main chapel, in a panel called “A Night With the Stars: Life, Love, and Sex in the Workplace.” It featured presentations from adult film industry stars Tori Black, James Deen and Lance Hart. (DailyCaller.com, 2/15/2013)

So when your Liberal friends bemoan the fact that other countries are doing a better job of educating their citizens and when they demand that more money be spent on education in the U.S., remind them of this. The answer isn't more money. It's taking back schools from the Liberals who run the educational system and allow things like this to take place.