Race Neutrality Works
In an OpEd in today’s Washington Post Jeb Bush reports, with evidence, that race neutrality works. In 2003 more than 37 percent of Florida university students who were in college for the first time were from minority groups. Minority enrollment on Florida college campuses has risen to 34 percent. … more minority students are taking […]
1948 Redux: Was the Left Right?
Recently I have written a couple of times (here and here) about the controversy stirred up by Peter Beinart of The New Republic when he argued that liberals today should emulate the Americans for Democratic Action’s 1948 purge of the “soft” Henry Wallace Progressives and purge MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, et. al. Now comes Joshua Zeitz, […]
Misleading Washington Post Headline
The Washington Post has an Associated Press story today on the Ohio recount under the following headline: Recount in Ohio Narrows Bush’s Victory Margin. Here’s what it reports: Election officials finished the presidential recount in Ohio on Tuesday, with the final tally shaving about 300 votes off President Bush’s six-figure margin of victory in the […]
Sauce For Goose And Gander
In a Baltimore Sun OpEd (requires free registration) today, Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet offers what has become the conventional liberal wisdom about the lack of conservatives on campus: tough noogies. That’s, of course, not exactly what he said. What he said is that conservatives are hypocritical since they usually deny that disproportionate statistics can […]
Equal Rites?
Advocates of gay marriage are fond of comparing it to racial intermarriage, as I discussed here last spring in noting that this claim made the Congressional Black Caucus and others uncomfortable. As an example, I quoted Rep. Artur Davis, a black Democrat representing Birmingham:
Affirmative Action In Action
Defenders of affirmative action typically insist that race is only “a factor” in hiring/admission decisions, as, for example, Terry Neal of the Washington Post did recently (discussed in this post) when he defined affirmative action as the effort to find and consider qualified minority and women applicants for jobs. For instance, the NFL has a […]
“Will The GOP Nuke The Constitution?”
According to Ariana — formerly Right, now Left, Always Nutty — Huffington, Right now, somewhere in the White House, administration strategists are hatching plans to go to war. Battle plans are being drawn. Timing and tactics are being finalized. A nuclear option is even being openly discussed. The designated target? Iran? Syria? North Korea? No, […]
Affirmative Action Grading
For an approach to affirmative action that is both lighter and deeper than ususally found here, see Mike Adams’s column today at Frontpagemag.com.
Backward-Looking Liberalism
I call to your attention this fine article by Michael Barone, who is struck “by how many of the constituencies supporting Democratic candidates oppose, rather than seek, change — how they are motivated not by ideas about how to change the future, but by something like nostalgia for the past.” First, he gives liberals their […]
Double Standard, Squared
The Houston Chronicle ran an article Christmas day by A.S. Medell
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