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In an otherwise sound article on the upcoming Supreme Court term, Los Angeles Times court-watcher David Savage writes: Over the last decade, lawyers for the Center for Individual Rights have won rulings striking down affirmative action at the University of Texas law school and at the University of Georgia. The Supreme Court refused to hear […]

Four years ago Initiative 200 passed with the approval of 58% of Washington state voters. Like California’s Proposition 209 on which it was modeled, it banned racial preferences in state contracting, hiring, university admissions, etc. Recently the Seattle Times has been running a series of articles assessing the results. The most recent article found that […]

Writers in the New York Times whine a lot, often to no apparent purpose. A good example was the recent article about the dearth of women bloggers. Aside from the fact that the article is largely inaccurate — there are a large number of women bloggers– is the author suggesting that some sort of barrier […]

From a long article in the Washington Post Style section on the Mary Landrieu – Suzanne Terrell Senate runoff in Louisiana: No national Democratic figures are expected to be in Louisiana to campaign for Mary Landrieu. No Al Gore. No Tom Daschle. There are plans for phone calls using a recorded pitch from Bill Clinton […]

Two items of interest in the Chronicle of Education this morning (first two links below require subscription): First, many Yanomami people are distressed to know that blood samples taken from their communities in 1968 are still being held in American laboratories, a Yanomami activist said Friday at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. […]