Moral Equivalence in the Washington
Moral Equivalence in the Washington Post
Disparate Impact Disputation, Continued… –
Disparate Impact Disputation, Continued… – Garrett Moritz is back with more disparate impact defense. Or is it forth? As he points out, we have gone back and forth so many times now that it is hard to keep straight who’s on forth and who’s on back. Rather than beginning my response at the beginning let […]
Understanding or Sympathizing? – Sasha
Understanding or Sympathizing? – Sasha thinks I was being too harsh on the Post Style section in this post on this article on Moussaoui’s linguistic genius. And perhaps I was. Some of Moussaoui’s insults are funny, certainly, and the article was only in the Style section. I shouldn’t have called it news, although in my […]
Just the Ticket – One
Just the Ticket – One of the difficulties of diversity/multiculturalism, as with racial or ethnic preferences in general, is knowing when you’re supposed to take “racenicity” into account, and when you’re not. (I know “racenicity” isn’t a word, but perhaps it should be; it’s at least as good “ethno-racial identity” and its variants.) Take the […]
Disparate Impact Disputation – Garrett
Disparate Impact Disputation – Garrett Moritz once again valiantly assumes the Sisyphian burden of pushing a coherent and morally compelling argument for disparate impact up the hill for our inspection. Once again it rolls back down, leaving shards of both interesting observations and wishful thinking in its wake. In the process he attributes a number […]
Muslims & Multicults – Joe
Muslims & Multicults – Joe Katzman has a brilliant post today on his Winds of Change about Muslim integration in the West (or lack thereof) and the multicults (via InstaPundit). As I read him (I hope he and you will think fairly), he emphasizes both the reality and centrality of certain core values (denied by […]
Locked and UNloaded – In
Locked and UNloaded – In a 7/23 email to subscribers Gun Tests magazine announced that its August issue will contain a story that National Guard troops deployed in many airports after 9/11 carried unloaded weapons. Knight-Ridder newspapers have reported that armed National Guard troopers deployed to airports for security following September 11 did not always […]
Moussaoui’s Deeply Hidden Genius –
Moussaoui’s Deeply Hidden Genius – The Washington Post Style section is defending Moussaoui as a misunderstood genius. … they [the motions] show an angry man focused on what he feels is American hypocrisy and determined to hold this country to its stated principles of freedom and justice. Even as observers speculate about Moussaoui’s mental stability, […]
The Neas Have It –
The Neas Have It – Judicial Activism: Noun phrase. A judicial opinion with which you, and by implication all right-thinking people, disagree. Ralph Neas, president of People for the American Way, is (surprise!) opposing the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. According to Neas, “When she doesn’t agree with a […]
Death to Disparate Impact –
Death to Disparate Impact – Recently Garrett Moritz and I lobbed some friendly blog comments at each other over disparate impact. Look here. Moritz’s point, or one of his points, was that I was “tilting at windmills” because disparate impact was already a corpse, executed and interred by conservative courts. It still lives in a […]
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