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More Diversity, Fewer Drunks…

The Washington Post reports today on a Harvard study that claims “‘binge’ drinking by college students was significantly lower on campuses with more female and more black, Asian and other minority underclassmen.” Previous studies have shown that younger, white male students, particularly fraternity members, are at higher risk for binge drinking, which is defined as […]

The Specter Specter

Specter 1. A ghostly apparition; a phantom. 2. A haunting or disturbing image or prospect…. Arlen Specter: Republican Senator from Pennsylvania. The specter of Arlen Specter often rises up to haunt the Republicans in the Senate, and it happened again recently during Janice Brown’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. As reported in passing in […]

Passport To Nowhere

As regular readers (poor souls!) know all too well, I have been ranting of late about how “diversity” has come to mean anything but. Maybe it’s starting to get to me. Maybe I need to take a break, or apply a brake, or something, because I’m finding it increasingly difficult to poke fun at the […]

Shooting The Messenger

According to an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, President Bush’s nominee to become the Education Department’s statistics-gathering chief faces a likely confirmation battle in the U.S. Senate, partly as a result of his past studies criticizing multiculturalism on campuses and accusing colleges of discriminating against white students. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts […]

More Un-Diverse “Diversity”

I have commented several times on the humorous if Orwellian linguistic contortion of “diverse” having come to connote the virtual opposite of diverse. (Most recently here, where I observed that “maybe ‘diverse’ has already become so widely accepted as a synonym for ‘black’ that such complaints are pointless… I should know. After all, the car […]

While Howard Slept

In an interview with Sean Hannity on Hannity & Colmes tonight (transcript not yet available), retiring Sen. Zell Miller (D, Ga.) said that if Howard Dean had been in Massachusetts on the evening when Paul Revere woke the patriots with cries of “The British are coming! The British are coming!” he would have leaned out […]

Half-Baked

Joanne Jacobs points to a fine post by Stefan Sharkansky, who awards his un-coveted “Crayon Diversity Award” jointly to the Board of Regents of the University of Washington and Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Robert Jamieson “for advocating the principle that diversity is a good thing as long as people don’t express diverse opinions.” The sensitive liberals […]

Birds Of A Feather?

Rep. Cynthia McKinney, April 2002: We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11th. . . . What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11th? Who else knew, and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who […]

Who’s Dumb?

In one of his typical columns for the Washington Post, Harold Meyerson of The American Prospect recently argued that Americans in general, but Fox viewers in particular, are dumb. Ever worry that millions of your fellow Americans are walking around knowing things that you don’t? That your prospects for advancement may depend on your mastery […]

Quote Of The Week

“To rally around the president during a time of war is not in the American tradition….” – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a speech at Northwestern University. He drew parallels between the United State’s latest actions and the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor before the United States entered World War II…. Calling the discouragement of dissent […]