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Oral Sex! (But That’s Not The Interesting Part…)

NEWPORT NEWS – A Newport News [Va.] woman charged with a felony for receiving oral sex in a car is challenging a state law that prohibits certain types of sex between consenting adults. A police officer says he found the 21-year-old woman in a parked car receiving oral sex from a man about 3 a.m. […]

Democrats: Deluded Or Delusional?

Since the country continues to appear evenly divided along partisan lines, most current polls reveal little that is surprising, or interesting. Bush and Kerry see-sawing up and down one or two points apart? Ho hum. Richard Clarke? The Rasmussen Reports survey found that 60% of Democrats believe that Clarke is just telling the truth. Only […]

What A Great Idea!

Given all the (necessary and deserved) talk about media bias (see especially my new home away from home, here), it’s nice to see something really good being done at a major metropolitan daily. Thus I am delighted to point you to a new blog launched recently by and for — and to allow readers to […]

Kerry For … And Kerry Against

E.L. Core has another good example of Kerry stating recently that he voted for something when in fact he voted for it before he voted against it. Interestingly, as Core points out, this was precisely the sort of behavior that he lambasted in his 1971 Congressional testimony.

A Near-Miss And A Bank Shot

Since this blogging business is so highly unpaid (at least as conducted here), the currency most of us bloggers take to the emotional bank is “hits,” the number of people who stop by to sample our free wares. We earn nothing from each visit but we make it up in volume, deriving great satisfaction from […]

Kerry: Affirmative Action Now, Affirmative Action Forever

The National Newspaper Publishers Association, also known as the Black Press of America, is a federation of more than 200 black local and community newpapers. A recent article by one of its writers sings Kerry’s praises on civil rights and, in an interview, passes on his criticisms of President Bush’s civil rights record. At one […]

Hate Speech?

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Office of Civil Rights is investigating a possible hate speech incident at the University of North Carolina. Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to determine whose speech was hateful. In early February, Elyse Crystall, a nontenured lecturer in the English department, sent an e-mail […]

UC President Confirms Berkeley Selects From The Bottom Of The Pool

As I’ve discussed here and here, John Moores, the chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California system, has commissioned reports that suggest the university is using its new “comprehensive review” admissions procedures as an end run around the bar imposed by Prop. 209 against taking race into account. OpinionJournal at the […]

Red vs. Blue; Cavalier vs. Roundhead; PhillyMag vs. Brooks

Joel Kotkin, now affiliated with a public policy institute at Pepperdine University, has long been a perceptive commentator on the geography of American culture, and he makes another interesting contribution today with an article in the “Outlook” section of today’s Washington Post. In “Red, Blue and … So 17th Century,” he argues that America’s current […]

Is Affirmative Action Necessary, Or Not?

The Olympia, Washington, Olympian has a revealingly confused, or contradictory, editorial on the necessity of affirmative action in hiring by state government agencies. Quoting a recently released report on diversity with state agencies, the editorial laments the “miserable percentages” of minorities in some agencies that have fallen “woefully short” and applauds the “top performers” in […]