The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Hey, Kids! What Time Is It?
“Mark Wiedmer: It’s Time for Hart to Talk About Plan for UT Football”–headline, Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times Free Press, Nov. 12

Two Papers in One!

  • “New York, New Jersey and the Northeastern seaboard owe a debt of gratitude to Hurricane Katrina. . . . The legacy of Hurricane Katrina was as simple as the Boy Scout motto: ‘Be prepared.’ And, to a large extent, the Northeast’s response to Hurricane Sandy seems to have reflected that.”–Daniel Wolff op-ed, New York Times, Nov. 10
  • “Before we left the Rockaways, [real estate broker Nan] Shipley and I met a man who had come into [City Councilman James] Sanders’s office looking for help. He had two children, he said, including a 2-month-old baby who had had bronchitis and had just gotten out of the hospital. ‘Our house is too cold,’ he kept saying, wiping tears from his eyes. ‘The baby will get sick again. We need a place to stay.’ After talking to the man, Shipley walked back to the Church of the Nazarene to see if one of the FEMA officials could do something. A few minutes later, she came back frowning. ‘He said to call 911,’ she said.”–Joe Nocera column, New York Times, Nov. 10

The New Jim Crow
Wisconsin voters were not required to show photo IDs at the polls last week in spite of a recently passed law. In September, as the Washington Post reported at the time, the state Supreme Court declined to expedite appeals of two Madison judges enjoining the law.

But officials in ultraliberal Madison aren’t against ID requirements for everything, as the Associated Press reports:

Riders who have an unlimited pass on Madison Metro buses will now have to show identification.

University of Wisconsin students and employees have unlimited ride passes. There are concerns the bus passes are being used fraudulently. So, beginning Monday, an employment or school photo ID will be required.

UW-Madison employee and student bus passes are non-transferable. So, if the users don’t have their IDs, the passes will be confiscated and a 1-day pass will be offered. …

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