The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
They Even Refuse to Speak English!
“Nicolas Sarkozy Says France Has Too Many Foreigners”–headline, BBC website, March 7
It’s Always in the Last Place You Look
“Yale’s History Department Losing Students”–headline, Commentary website, March 6
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Average Turnout Expected for Primaries”–headline, Times-Journal (Fort Payne, Ala.), March 6
- “Bears Coach Lovie Smith Backs Obama Re-Election”–headline, Chicago Tribune website, March 6
Your Tax Dollars at Work
“Part of an $11 million grant intended to provide business attire to 400 low-income job-seekers instead helped only two people, an audit of the city’s Department of Human Services has found,” the Detroit News reports:
The audit, conducted by the city’s auditor general for the period from July 2009 to September 2011, found the department failed to control the operations and finances of a boutique that was to provide the clothes.
On the bright side, when the two job-seekers showed up for their interviews, they looked like a million bucks.
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