Linkin’ Log (for 04-11-07)

Here are some links to raise your ire and blood pressure:

• Insult to Injury—U.S. News & World Report exposes “a shocking number of cases where the U.S. military appears to have dispensed low disability ratings to wounded service members with serious injuries and thus avoided paying them full military disabled retirement benefits.”

• Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud—The New York Times reports that “a federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation.”

• Florida Legislature Forces University To Idolize Jeb Bush—Think Progress reports on how the University of Florida, which recently voted against awarding an honorary degree to Jeb Bush, is soon to be compelled by the state legislature to name its School of Education after the former governor.

• Md. county pulls The Chocolate War from curriculum—The Associated Press (via the First Amendment Center) reports on how parents bullied a school district in Maryland to remove an award-winning book on bullying from the high school curriculum.