The only two groups who place race above everything else.

BZ

YahooNews indicates that Marco Rubio is now campaigning with Mitt Romney:

Presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was campaigning in Pennsylvania ahead of the state’s Tuesday primary with Marco Rubio in tow, the US senator widely discussed as a possible running mate.

Rubio is the latest among potential vice presidential picks to hit the campaign trail with Romney, but the first since the frontrunner’s main rival Rick Santorum bowed out of the Republican race two weeks ago.

Romney has already pivoted toward President Barack Obama ahead of the November election, and he told a crowd in Greencastle that Americans needed to help him battle against the cancer that is big government.

I’d vote for that ticket.

Bottom line: I’d have to.

BZ

BZ

When you have defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in the corner of George Zimmerman, you know the case has problems. From Breitbart’s Big Government:

ABC News has released a new photo of the back of George Zimmerman’s head, taken just “three minutes after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin.” His head is brutally bloodied. As the image above shows, there’s blood all over his head, at least two gashes, and a large bruise forming at the top of his head.

Zimmerman’s contention all along has been that Martin was bashing his head against the pavement, which is why he was forced to shoot him. The media – especially ABC News — initially attempted to discount that story completely, releasing video of his booking at the Sanford police station that were not well-pixellated, and thus did not show the gashes on the back of his head.

Continuing, involving Dershowitz:

With ABC News’ release of the George Zimmerman photo showing blood flowing freely from his head, the question becomes whether Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the case, had access to the photo before charging Zimmerman with second-degree murder.

The arrest affidavit did not mention the photograph, or the bleeding, gashes, and bruises on Zimmermans’ head. Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School stated upon release of the arrest affidavit that it was “so thin that it won’t make it past a judge on a second degree murder charge … everything in the affidavit is completely consistent with a defense of self-defense.”

After the release of the photo, however, Dershowitz went much further, telling Breitbart News that if the prosecutors did have the photo and didn’t mention it in the affidavit, that would constitute a “grave ethical violation,” since affidavits are supposed to contain “all relevant information.”

Dershowitz continued, “An affidavit that willfully misstates undisputed evidence known to the prosecution is not only unethical but borders on perjury because an affiant swears to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth, and suppressing an important part of the whole truth is a lie.”

To me, the next logical question might be: did the Florida prosecutors decide to file second degree murder charges –despite this evidence — because of external political/racial pressures?

It will be interesting to discover, as Dershowitz points out, whether or not Angela Corey was in possession of this potentially exculpatory evidence.

“Curiouser and curiouser.”

BZ

From the Los Angeles Times:

WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a transportation bill that would advance the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, defying a White House veto threat and stoking an election-year fight over what Congress can do about gas prices.

The 293-127 vote to extend highway and transit funding through September sets up contentious negotiations with the Democratic-led Senate. The Senate rejected an effort to include the Canada-to-Texas pipeline project in its two-year $109-billion transportation bill.

The Obama administration also warned that the president’s advisors would recommend he veto the House bill, if it reaches his desk, because it “seeks to circumvent a long-standing and proven process for determining whether cross-border pipelines are in the national interest” and for assessing Keystone XL’s environmental impact.

That’s odd. I seem to recall that this so-called “study” has been percolating for the past three years. One cannot draw any kind of conclusion in three years? If so, clearly, this is your federal government not at work — in truth, your federal government in sloth. Witness the GSA.

An interesting note from the Demorat Camp:

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) called Republican assertions that the pipeline would bring down fuel prices “hooey.”

“What’s going on here is political,” he said.

“Political.” Imagine that. As in Obama saying he will simply veto whatever crosses his desk. But when Mr Obama politicizes, that’s not “politics.” When Republicans do, that is “politics.” As in refusing to even plan for the future of petroleum in America because — after all — petroleum is not going away.

A final note:

But Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., called the pipeline a scheme to export oil to China that will do little or nothing to lower gas prices in the U.S. He said most of the oil that arrives in Port Arthur winds up being exported.

Representative Markey is incorrect. We don’t export oil. Our Number One export, this year and in 2011, has been refined gasoline, diesel and jet fuel — not crude oil. The oil has been processed by the Chemical Coast refineries for shipping in export.

The Demorats would have you believe that instant energy conversion is possible. It is not. They would have you believe that once we’re all in electric cars, we won’t need oil any more. That is wrong. And the Demorats would have you believe that because we can’t produce an immediate increase in oil yield by drilling and enabling pipelines and transportation, then attempting to do so now is pointless. That is also wrong.

It’s a fight. And I’m not giving up.

BZ