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The French Hide Their Flag

At Washington hotels, that is. Lloyd Grove, theWashington Post‘s gossip columnist, reports that executives at French-owned Accor Hotels “have determined that Franco-American relations are so rotten it’s not prudent to fly the tricolor at any of their 10 U.S. Sofitel hotels, including Washington’s Hotel Sofitel Lafayette Square.” One of the anti-French jokes zooming around the […]

Dear Senator Graham…

I sent the following to Senator Bob Graham today, through his web site. Dear Senator Graham: Although I grew up in south Alabama, my mother was born in Pensacola, I still have many relatives in Florida (one of whom you appointed to an important position but I’m leaving that name out), and I’ve followed your […]

An Expert Speaks

Speaking of the the Estrada impasse, Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and ubiquitous talking head expert on all things Washingtonian, charged that “[w]hatever else he’s accomplished, President Bush has really polarized our politics.” Mann is the sort of moralist who unhesitatingly discerns the cause of events he doesn’t like in the […]

Dahlia Dumps On the Pro- And Anti-Estrada Arguments

You should read Dahlia Lithwick’s dissection of both sides of the Estrada debate in Slate, especially because I’m going to comment on only a few strands of it. Many of her points are quite incisive, but a few strike me as off the mark. But whether on or off, she’s always a pleasure to read. […]

Brainless Busing, Dumb Quota

Hundreds of black students are being bused out of their neighborhoods in St. Petersburg, Fla., leaving a number of brand new schools only two thirds full while frustrating the desires of many bused students to attend the new schools near their homes. (Link via OpinionJournal) Why? A legal agreement with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund […]

Black Judges At Stanford

As part of Black Liberation Month, the Stanford Black Law Students Association hosted a panel of four black judges last night to discuss “judicial politicization.” “Neutral judgment is extremely important,” Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan proclaimed in introducing the panel, “but politics are not absent from the judiciary process.” Given the topic, and that introduction, […]

Hijacking The Affirmative Action Movement

Nathan Newman, whose views on affirmative action are quite different from those here at the Discriminations home office (see here and here, among others), has performed a valuable service by exposing BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), the thuggish group that has taken over the pro-preferences demonstrations. (Link via InstaPundit)

Prefereces Today, Preferences Tomorrow, Preferences Forever!

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that the American Civil Rights Institute and the Center for Equal Opportunity have notified “dozens of private and public colleges” that their programs that exclude some students based on race or ethnicity violate federal civil rights laws and that complaints may be filed with the Department of […]

Atmosphere?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports this morning that “Atmosphere Hurts UGA’s Minority Recruitment.” Race preferences in admissions at the University of Georgia were barred by a federal court in 2000, and since then the number of black applicants has declined 20%. Black enrollment now is 6%. According to university president Michael Adams, “[l]osing the lawsuit sent […]

Man Bites Dog! Civil Rights Lawyers Applaud Supreme Court Insistence On Racial Neutrality

Yesterday the Supreme Court reversed the Fifth Circuit and Texas courts and granted a Texas death row inmate’s plea to have a court consider evidence of racial bias in the striking of blacks from the jury that convicted him. Writing for an 8-1 majority, Justice Kennedy noted that [i]n this case, the statistical evidence alone […]