White guys and one black beat on Asian kid, calling him nigger.

Later: The perps were racially identified as Chinese (five of them), white (the 17–year-old), and (apparently) black, as seen in the video:

Raymond Palomino [white] was charged as an adult. Hearings for the other six — including the 15-year-old girl [who reportedly lured the victim into the alley], two 16-year-old boys and three 15-year-old boys — were postponed in Juvenile Court as officials sought a Cantonese translator. Five of the six are Chinese, officials said. Their names were not released.

The mandatory training session in how to behave at a basketball game, probably ill-conceived, has become optional.

The b-ball star called up image of body bags for opponents.  Gentlemen, start your engines of aggressivity for next time around.

Were you wondering how Detroit is doing?  Very badly, as it happens.

Something political this way comes, from the pulpit.

Is she another Joshua facing her own Jericho wall?  Well, she’s sure a clever one. 

Drat!

It’s the Fed talking to itself in ’06, almost all bullish on the housing market. WSJ item, subscription only.

Some quotable quotes, however:

Again, I think we are unlikely to see growth being derailed by the housing market, but I do want us to be prepared for some quarter-to-quarter fluctuations, Bernanke says. He identifies housing as a crucial issue, but adds that he agrees with most of the commentary that the strong fundamentals support a relatively soft landing in housing.

Timothy Geithner, who is now Treasury Secretary and was then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, doesnt see the parallel risks building in the financial system. Equity prices and credit spreads suggest considerable confidence in the prospect for growth, he says. Overall financial conditions seem pretty supportive of the expansion.

These gnomes of Washington heard some nay-sayers out but in their wisdom made their umpirical calls. Point is, who the hell can read the future that way? Does not the market have its own self-correcting mechanisms, when millions vote with their purchases and sales? And who

says these fellows can read the entrails?

Newt’s attacks did this, says Jim Geraghty:

Mitt Romney’s campaign is now about something: the defense of free enterprise from a president and a movement that believe they can build a layoff-free future through government regulation of the economy. We’ve seen that vision crash and burn around the world, but we’re forced to make this argument and preserve (and restore) the system that has created more opportunity and more prosperity to more people than any other, one more time.

More more more in Geraghty’s Morning Jolt emails.

She’s black?

Angry woman is what I been hearing.

Help Gov. Scott Walker in his trying to save Wisconsin from entrenched special interests.

For major media outlets to allow this comment says something about which way the wind is blowing:

Simpson, a graduate of Lincoln Park High School and a part-time student at Phoenix University, said the incident showed the value of concealed carry laws in place in other states, pointing out that he wouldn’t have been entitled to carry his weapon in Illinois if he hadn’t been on his way to work [as a security guard].

He’s Spc. Paville Simpson, a Natl Guard MP, who nabbed three thieving hoodlums at a Red Line station.