A Good Question, And Some Possible Answers
Isaac J. Bailey, a columnist for the Myrtle Beach (S.C.) Sun News, asks a very good and interesting question: Has the question ever been asked? And if it ever were, how would John Kerry, John Edwards and the leadership of the Democratic National Committee respond? The question: Why hasn’t the Democratic Party used race-based affirmative […]
Kerry Calling For Trying bin Laden Is “Tough”?
In a page one article in today’s Washington Post, reporters Dan Balz and Lois Romano write that in an interview with the Associated Press [Kerry] sounded a tough line on terrorism and said that, if Osama bin Laden is captured, the terrorist leader should be put on trial for murder in U.S. courts, not before […]
The AC(No Evil)LU Gets Itself In A Pickle
Although the ACLU objects (on principle, of course) to “no fly” lists of people barred from flying, or subject to heightened scrutiny, and filed suit to bar their use, it has promised the government not to employ people it knew to be on similar terrorism lists so that it could continue participating in a program […]
Registration Discrimination
The popular “school and society” course in the School of Education at the University of Colorado has a section that is limited to minority students or first-generation college students. (Tip thanks to Linda Seebach) The course
How The Cookie Crumbles
You might have missed this, but a few days ago Teresa revealed on National Public Radio that the recipe she submitted to Family Circle magazine for its election year cookie bake-off was not hers. Mrs. Heinz Kerry had originally submitted a recipe called Yummy Wonders, but, according to Family Circle, its test kitchen said the […]
Brooding Broder, Posturing Post
David Broder almost had an interesting column in the Washington Post today. In Broder’s view, the “Democrats’ Shaky Convergence” (his title) isn’t really a convergence at all because the “heart” of the party is at war with its “head.” The Democratic “heart,” its activist base, is pretty radical, certainly far to the left of its […]
A Curious Route To “One America”
In his acceptance speech last night, John Edwards accused the Republicans of taking this campaign “down the lowest possible road” and of practicing the “hateful, negative politics of the past.” I couldn’t tell from the speech what specifically (if anything) he had in mind in making these accusations. But no matter. I’m sure many of […]
The Democrats And Déjà Vu
O.K., my brief detour into being nice to the Democrats (see Whose One America? below) has lasted long enough. Now we will return to your regularly scheduled Discriminations. Something has been bothering me about what has been emanating from the Democratic Convention — I mean something other than the Dems’ enthusiasm for many people and […]
Whose One America?
I second JustOneMinute‘s enthusiasm for Barack Obama’s keynote address to the Dems. If more Democrats sounded like this there would be fewer Republicans, and less need of them. UPDATE While I’m being nice to Democrats, let me encourage you to visit Dean Esmay and take the pledge he invites and that I endorse. (But Dean, […]
Teresa The Terror
On Monday the Boston Herald printed some choice quotes from Teresa the Terrible gleaned from a 1975 book by Myra McPherson, formerly a reporter with the Washington Post. Today the WaPo’s “Reliable Source” quoted some highlights from the highlights here. Among the gems: She railed against the “putrid politics” of the Democratic Party; “I know […]
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