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We've come a long way since the days of minority segregation in sports. It has been 74 years since Jessie Owens won gold and Matthew Robinson won Silver in the 200-meter dash at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, right under the nose of Adolf Hitler. Matthew's brother Jackie would break the color barrier in Major League Baseball 11 years later. Doug Williams was the first black quarterback to win a Superbowl when he played for the Washington Redskins, a traditionally white-led team even in the mid-1980s. In a majority of traditionally "white" sports and competitive events today, minorities playing hardly causes one to bat an eye. It is hardly true the other way around, however.

It seems that the winners of the first ever Sprite Step Off competition will have to share their first-place trophy. Coca-Cola made the decision on March 1st after reviewing hundreds of comments when a white sorority from the University of Arkansas won the competition at the end of February. Citing a "scoring discrepancy" Coca-Cola (the major sponsor via its Sprite brand) awarded Alpha Kappa Alpha, a team from Indiana University, the first-place tie.

Message boards were filled with vitriolic comments after the ladies from Arkansas won, much of it racially charged.

Apparently, that is a tough question for Arianna Packard to answer. It seems that Ms. Packard wrote a response to Senators Inhofe, Coburn and Kyl who were supporting Carly Fiorina in the California Senate primary. In her letter, which our good friend at Redstate, Erick Erickson has posted Ms. Packard says such things as;

All of this might be forgivable if Ms. Fiorina had the proven record of conservatism on the issues that you attribute to her. Sadly she doesn't.

by Rose Pedenko

Another vote leaves the ObamaCare Express Train-wreck.

Something about rats and other dysfunctional perverts leaving the sinking ship comes to mind. I also have a vision of Nancy and Harry downing a bottle of Wild Turkey that keeps spinning around in my head.

Fox News sums it up;

Today, Reps. Pence and Hensarling, proposed an Amendment that would limit the amount of money the government spends to 20% of the GDP. This will ensure that the government will not pile onto the enormous debt we have already. This is a common sense solution to the problem of the ever increasing spending spree that CONgress critters and politicians in general like to do when in power.

crossposted at RedState

You may have missed it. It was in all the news, but perhaps you've been away -- to Mars or somewhere equally distant from the long reach of American media. So let me catch you up quickly:

Toyota, the world's leading auto manufacturer, is evil, greedy, hates Americans --especially children and minorities -- and clubs baby harp seals, pollutes streams where trout hatch their young, favors tax cuts for the wealthy, sponsors dog fighting, sells tainted dog food to the elderly from whom it withholds all medicines except viagra, and worst of all [gasp], the top Toyota executives all worship Dick Cheney. Some even have the elusive Dick Cheney baubleheads on their desks [yes, try and find one of those in stock somewhere].

But now for the rest of the story......

The Democrats are intent on passing their Health Care Takeover bill, no matter what the political cost. According to the Washington Post, President Obama wants to add a couple of ideas suggested by Republicans at his "Health Care Summit" in an effort to turn one or two Republican votes in his favor and claim "bipartisan" status.

On Wednesday, Obama plans to call on Congress to bring the year-long debate to a swift close, and congressional leaders expect him to signal support for a strategy that includes a special budget maneuver known as reconciliation. Under that strategy, the House would adopt the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve and approve a separate package of fixes to reflect a compromise worked out between Democrats in the two chambers.

Under reconciliation rules, the fixes could not be filibustered and Senate Democrats could approve them with a simple majority vote -- a move intended to bypass a Republican caucus that remains united in its opposition to the legislation. Republican leaders said Obama's offer to adopt some of the ideas they promoted at last week's health-care summit would do little to improve what they consider a fundamentally flawed measure.