Discrimination: The Good (To Include), The Bad (To Exclude), The Ugly (How To Tell The Difference)
Dateline: Kansas City A federal judge is weighing whether to bar Kansas City from enforcing an affirmative action program meant to include minority and women participation in tax-assisted construction projects. That’s the debate in a nutshell. Proponents of affirmative action believe that discrimination is both necessary and proper to include “underrepresented” minorities. Critics of affirmative […]
Eastland Lives…
Rich Lowry had some fun yesterday listing a whole host of areas where Democrats have abandoned their traditional positions and moved rapidly in the opposite direction: states rights, federal intervention in education, Senate filibusters…. With more space he could have listed more, such as their former fealty to the First Amendment morphing into support for […]
A Non-Nuclear Option For Changing Filibuster Rules
Linda Chavez has an excellent idea for using a conventional, not nuclear, weapon to force the Democrats’ hand on judicial filibusters. She notes that traditionally Senators who wanted to filibuster actually had to, you know, filibuster, but then the Senate leadership decided that the mere threat of a filibuster would be enough to stop a […]
More On Religious Disparate Impact
Juan Non-Volokh writes: I think it is fair to say that at least some Democratic Senators
More Turner Monologues
M. Rick Turner, the University of Virginia’s Dean of All Things Black, continues his monotonous monologue: Racism, Racism, Racism. I recently wrote, in “From Supt. To Nuts,” that the Charlottesville school board has accepted the resignation, after only 10 months, of its embattled Superintendent of School over the vociferous objections of Dean Turner and friends. […]
Yet Another Hate Crime Hoax
David Beito reports what many suspected: the recent notorious “hate crime” at Trinity International University that resulted in 200 black students being hustled off to a motel with police protection for their safety after several students received threatening letters was the result of another hoax.
Left-Wing Holy Rollers
The Washington Post gave over most of its OpEd space today to two thumping (almost Bible-thumping) calls for what amounts to religious war … against the radicalchristianright. Colbert King, Deputy Editor of the Post’s editorial page (What is “Op” about papers filling up their “OpEd” page with their own editors?), writes that “ideologues on the […]
From Supt. To Nuts…
Scottie Griffin, Charlottesville’s controversial schools superintendent, is out. The school board accepted her resignation last night. M. Rick Turner, the University of Virginia’s Dean of All Things Black, has asserted on more than one occasion that criticism of the embattled superintendent was based on racism (here’s one, and here’s another). In a similar vein, at […]
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California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nu
Building “Diversity,” Block By Block
In an article about building “diversity” at the State University of New York at Buffalo that is a tottering edifice of cliche built upon a foundation of cliches, Mattie Rhodes, an associate professor of nursing and chair of the university’s affirmative action committee, had two proposals that I found especially interesting. The Affirmative Action Committee […]
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