We don’t have time to read all the details of the just-released Ethics Committee report on Max Headroom, but this nugget caught our attention:

Senator Ensign holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University, and received his degree as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University in 1985. Senator Ensign subsequently practiced veterinary medicine, and opened the first 24-hour animal hospital in Las Vegas.

Since Ensign’s just a year older than us, it’s very likely that he was attending OSU — The Fightin’ Beavers! — while we were an hour down Highway 99W at the University of Oregon — The Fightin’ Ducks!

Not that we care or anything. We just like the sound of “Former 24-Hour Veterinarian John Ensign”.

Report of the Preliminary Inquiry [Senate Ethics Committee, PDF]

Senate ethics committee: Ensign violated federal laws [WaPo]

We’re not sure Indiana Governor and Shrub alum Mitch Daniels wants to run for President, as opposed to DC Types wanting him to run. And from what little we’ve heard about the matter, apparently The Wife has reservations.

Now we know why:

The trickiest issue is the Daniels’ past: As they say on Facebook and in the recent movie about it, “It’s complicated.” In the 1990s, Cheri Daniels left her husband and their four daughters, ages 8 to 14, moved to California, and married another man. Three years later, she returned to Mitch and their family.

Governor Daniels has discussed the matter publicly only once. “If you like happy endings, you’ll love our story,” he told the Indianapolis Star in 2004. “Love and the love of children overcame any problems.”

Since we know little of Mitch Daniels, we’re not sure this poses a Newt Paradox, at least until Mitch makes some Family Values noises. (Well, besides defunding Planned Parenthood this week.) But now that the cat’s out of the bag, we’re sure The Wife would love to get up close and personal with the DC Types who’ve been bandying about Hubby’s name.

Is Cheri Daniels a good ‘political wife’? [Christian Science Monitor]

Image: First Lady Cheri Herman Daniels [State of Indiana]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BKDD3BDNHg

Our guest columnist is even more frightening pitching the videos on the site’s homepage.

Welcome to Learn Our History, where kids discover history through entertaining animated videos! I co-founded this company to give children a fun, fresh way to learn about America’s rich past and most influential people.

Many of our schools and teachers today haven’t found ways to make history for kids fun. Instead, they’re teaching with political bias that distorts facts for the sake of political correctness. As a result, our national pride and patriotism are in jeopardy.

That’s what makes Learn Our History different. Your kids will love to learn American history as they watch our nation’s stories come to life right before their eyes! All the while, they’ll build a strong sense of national pride and appreciation for America.

Learn Our History

Mike Huckabee Fixes American History [TPM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nn0UkdDArM

Eli Pariser, the 30-year-old president of MoveOn.org, has been living with the Internet for half his life. And now he’s fretting that the Internet is not living up to its early promise of liberating people from being human:

I’ve always believed the Internet could connect us all together and help create a better, more democratic world. That’s what excited me about MoveOn — here we were, connecting people directly with each other and with political leaders to create change.

But that more democratic society has yet to emerge, and I think it’s partly because while the Internet is very good at helping groups of people with like interests band together (like MoveOn), it’s not so hot at introducing people to different people and ideas. Democracy requires discourse and personalization is making that more and more elusive.

Yes, how we pine for the good old days of three networks and one newspaper, when we were much more likely to be introduced to different people and ideas, at least those deemed safe to expose to an audience that was substantially more uptight than we were.

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Citing modesty concerns, hipster website removes “sexually suggestive” male images from Sit Room Photo [Free Williamsburg]

“Contrary to his own personally advanced hype, Donald Trump will not be making any kind of announcement about his presidential plans on the Celebrity Apprentice season finale.” The show was already taped. Last November. [National Journal]

We don’t know who’s behind this, but it’s awesome. As are the comments.

Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Dead, Vader Says [Galactic Empire Times]