High Ground Underground

One sad story from the Las Vegas shooting is a young local (Manhattan Beach) middle school special ed teacher, Sandy Casey, photo below.  She leaves behind a fiancée, family, many colleagues at her school, and a whole class of special ed students.  It would be difficult for even normal students to process, but as the Daily Breeze reported, a former colleague said “Some of them are going to be the least able to process it because of their challenges.”  Multiply that ripple effect by the some 60 dead and over 500 injured – over 40 still in critical condition, so some more may die. Truly an evil act by one depraved individual.  But the many stories emerging of heroic and selfless acts to save others, and the outpouring of love and support by the Las Vegas and broader community shows the greater goodness.  These types of events of course beg the question of what can be done.  Predictably, immediately Hillary Clinton and the Left focus on the guns and b...

In addition to many people I run into (e.g., at the gym) who freely share that they are still in mourning, there’s been much hand-wringing and blame in the post-mortem analyses of the election.  Too much of it has been directed at Mitt Romney – a great candidate who gave it his all.  Ann Coulter explains how and why that blame is mis-directed.  She is reinforced in articles by Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, Kimberly Strassel and Joel Rosenberg, all of whom (along with myself) point out factors like minority vs. religious values turnout, growth of entitlement mentality, a long & vicious primary, an incumbent, etc. Here’s a table of contents for this somewhat long post: 1. “Romney was not the Problem,” by Ann Coulter (interesting contrast w. Reagan, etc.) 2.  “More than 6 Million Self-Described Evangelicals Voted for Obama,” by Joel Rosenberg (exit polling analysis of religious turnout and voting) & my analysis of the low Evangelical vote 3. “The GOP Tu...