27 January 2012
I have a new essay on Minding The Campus today with a title similar to this post’s, “Ex-Justice: Civil Rights Act ‘Poorly Considered.’”
I had suggested calling it “John Paul Stevens: Poster-Geezer For Selective Memory And Liberal Judging,” knowing full well that John Leo, MtC’s superlative editor, would likely find my suggestion beyond the pale of good taste and come up with something on his own. He did, and he did — even though I had carefully explained that Justice Stevens, at 91, was too old to call a poster boy.
27 January 2012
Laurie Fendrich, one of the lefties in the stable of regular essayists at the Chronicle of Higher Education (don’t worry; there are a couple of regular conservatives as well), confesses at the very beginning of her rant today against Arizona governor Jan Brewer, “Scary Black Man (Oops, I Mean the President) Threatens Governor“:
You know how we liberals are—always looking for ways to play the race card? Well, I’ve held back, but today I’m here to play it.
And play it she does, actually playing two cards, not one:
Let me spell it out for the governor: For her to tell the media that she “felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude he had,” was inexcusable. She was disrespectful to the president individually, as well as to the Office of the President.
Saddest of all, you don’t need to be a Freudian to know they were deeply revealing. The woman couldn’t help herself. A scary black man showed up on the tarmac.
So, Gov. Brewer was “disrespectful” to presidency and the president (something liberals never were to President Bush), and because the president is black she’s a racist to boot.
It’s a good thing there are liberals like Fendrich. Otherwise we’d have to invent them.
26 January 2012
Megan McCardle quotes candidate Obama — “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition” — and observes, appropriately enough, “If Obama didn’t want to be judged on the basis of the economy’s performance, he shouldn’t have let his mouth write checks that he couldn’t cash.” True enough, but [...]
25 January 2012
From Inside Higher Ed this morning: WASHINGTON — The Department of Education has acknowledged using flawed data in a study on the impact of race on student loan repayment rates, having omitted black students from its calculation. The analysis was conducted during the debate over gainful employment regulations, in response to complaints that the rules [...]
23 January 2012
Ryan Lizza discusses a bunch of early Obama administration memos on the economy and other matters in a long New Yorker article. Some of the material is fascinating, and the article is well worth reading, but the judgment of any journalist who can write of our current political impasse that “The Republican Party has drifted [...]
21 January 2012
Is anyone else struck by the degree to which Newt seems to be a pigment-impaired doppelgänger of Obama, albeit from the other end of the political spectrum? True, Candidate Newt brings a long career of considerable political experience (and many would say accomplishment) to the race, compared to Obama’s accomplishment-thin “present”-voting short tenure in the [...]
18 January 2012
Ward Connerly and Jennifer Gratz, whose work together accomplished great things for the movement to end racial preferences, have parted ways, and the disturbing repercussions are laid out in a long article in the New York Times today. Those of us who know and admire them both can feel nothing but sadness over this development, [...]
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