Thoughts from the Right Side

• Have you ever heard of Jake Sharp ? He is a running back at the University of Kansas, is 5'10", 190 lbs., and is the fastest player on the Kansas roster. In 2008, he finally started to get a chance to play regularly, and played very well after overcoming the initial stigma. From castefootball.us :

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" Kansas' Jake Sharp is 5-10, 190 pounds, but according to his coach, the staff 'never wanted him to be the guy.' Despite being the fastest player on the Kansas roster and being the all-time leading rusher in Kansas high school history, he was never considered starting material until every black back on the roster proved inadequate. Strange, don't you think? "

Yes, strange indeed. Jake Sharp is a Caucasian and the coaches were apologetic for playing him. Why would they make derogatory comments about their starting tailback ? There's no problem with eligibility, either. Jake is an honor student. Jake Sharp was typecast. A lot of this goes on in sports but it is considered unseemly to mention it. • From VDare.com 1-14-09 : " After years of pandering to Hispanics, what does Bush have to show for it ? You would be hard pressed to find a politician, of either major party, who has pandered more to Hispanics, and done it so sincerely, as George W. Bush. And yet, here we are in 2009, about to see a Democratic president inaugurated, who has won two-thirds of the Hispanic vote." - Allen Wall allanwall.net • " We need to ignore advice from self-serving ' big government conservatives' such as Bill Kristol, who once said he could work just as well with liberal Democrats." - Congressman John Duncan (R-Tennessee) ALWAYS ignore advice from Bill Kristol, a fake conservative. • " To know truly is to know by causes." - Francis Bacon • Name of the week : Ryan Muckerheide, a professor at Arizona State University. Professor Muckerheide assigned students to read DebbieSchlussel.com and Ace of Spades HQ, two conservative sites, along with Huffington Post and Daily Kos, two liberal sites in his English 216 course. " Glad to see conservatives are getting equal time. Here's hoping they get equal chances at good grades, without regurgitating the usually required liberalism." - Debbie Schlussel debbieschlussel.com • Don't forget to call Congressman Ron Paul's weekly report, toll-free at 1-888-322-1414, updated each weekend. • " Schwarzenegger's failure : If the California governor is the face of 'moderate' Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest." - Matt Welch in Reason magazine February 2009 issue • The savvy among us in 1976 supported the insurgent Republican Ronald Reagan. The clueless establishment types stuck with the hapless Gerald Ford. Big media still tells those who vote in Republican primaries to stick with the hapless candidates, such as John McCain. They used to tell us that Ronald Reagan could never win in November, but he was four for four in November, two as governor, two as president, and he won blowouts every time. • President Obama signed a $500,000 book deal five days before assuming office, another feel-your-pain leftist who lives above it all. Of course, this is far less than he received from previous book royalties paid to him for Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope. He was paid nearly $2,500,000 for those two books. In 2007, Obama reported book royalties from Random House of $3,200,000. " Mr. Obama's books have helped boost the Obamas' income considerably in recent years, from about $1 million in 2005 to more than $4 million in 2007, " write Christina Bellantoni and Jim McElhattan of The Washington Times. • Why would anyone in the D.C. area read the P--- when they could read the Washington Times instead ? • Good websites : 2blowhards.com ilanamercer.com gunowners.com sobran.com reagan.com chuckmuth.com gopac.org mises.org controlledgreed.com fatboy.cc evervigilant.net marthazoller.com • Bumper sticker of the day : Squeezed OJ He was, wasn't he ? Maybe he and Bernie Madoff, "The Ponz," can be cellmates. • Both Biden and Obama in the Senate voted against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's confirmation. Two U.S. Senate losers have now advanced to the top of the heap. Marshall Miller writes a weekly Thoughts from the Right Side column. Marshall can be reached at ppmill@comcast.net