Voting on Apartheid, Shiny Closed Bathrooms and the Mad Dash out of California

Israel bans Israeli Arabs from participating in the upcoming elections. It's funny how political rights for their citizens can be easily removed. Out of roughly 7 million Israelis, about 20% of them are Arabs. Since Israeli Arabs have a much higher birth rate then their Jewish counterparts, there are two ways to ensure Israel keeps its Jewish nature. One ways is to allow for a Palestinian state. The other way is to take a South African approach and simply deny rights to Arab citizens. Unfortunately, it looks like they are taking the latter approach. This is a perfect reason why a Palestinian state is necessary. 21st century, first-world countries cannot have enduring apartheid type policies. Something has to give.

Ponzi financier Bernie Madoff avoids jail while awaiting trial for the $50B he ripped off from investors including his own sister. Although he tried to hide his assets by mailing a million dollars worth of jewerly and another $174M in personal checks, the judge decided that it was cool for him to be assigned to his $7M condo.

Senate Democrats will finally seat Roland Burris. this week.

After spending $500,000 to remodel the bathrooms, MARTA decides to close the bathrooms to save money. Only government can be that inefficient.

Businesses are running out of California. Couldn't be because of their high taxes, could it?

It looks like it will be tough for Obama to close Gitmo even within the first 100 days of his presidency. What will happen to the people being held there is anybody's guess.