Kaus Supremely Wrong!
Mickey Kaus on the type of Supreme Court nominee Bush should/should not pick: An honorable, undiluted conservative with strong doubts about Roe but no Lochneresque private-property enthusiasms would seem to be what is called for. … On the contrary, after Kelo (the “takings” case) a nominee with strong “private property enthusiasms” would seem to be […]
Mary Frances Berry: Dumb Or Disingenuous?
Mary Frances Berry, the imperious and widely unlamented former chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is now reduced to being a tenured history professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has “has spent her life trying to uphold the promise of equality that began with Brown v. Board of Education.” Just ask her, […]
The Five Commandments
George Will notes the idiocy of the Supreme Court’s church-state jurisprudence — Decades ago, the court ruled that the establishment clause was violated if government supplied books to religious schools but not if it supplied maps. Pat Moynihan wondered mischievously: What about atlases, which are books of maps? — and he concludes: Here is a […]
Selective Neutrality
There they go again. Both the New York Times and the liberal wing of the Supreme Court (assuming for the sake of argument that these are different entities) are once again waxing eloquent about the virtue of neutral equal treatment, by which they generally mean only that religion should be heard (but only inside confined, […]
Renegade Turncoat?
My wife and I recently returned from three weeks in California. Foreign travel is always enlightening, and this trip was no exception. (For those of you considering a similar trip, don’t worry; they let us back in the country with no problems when we returned home.) We’ve actually been out there several times since Jessie […]
Kelo-Ton Diversity?
By now you’ve all heard about the Kelo case, which removes most restrictions on government from using its “eminent domain” power to take private property. It has been discussed too widely on the blogs to be worth my linking, and so if you’re interested, and you haven’t read enough about it yet, go visit the […]
NAACPLDF Attacks OCR; CEO Defends…
No, this is not the latest battle in the War of the Acronyms … or maybe it is. In any event, an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has issued a report accusing the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights of investigating and discouraging […]
Teacher Certification: Who Guards The Guardian?
The Virginia Board of Education has “dramatically altered the way teachers are licensed” by dropping the math test for teachers who don’t teach math and instituting a much “more rigorous reading and comprehension exam.” The result is that teachers will have to be more literate and proficient in the subjects they teach, but educators who […]
“Diversity” And Hate
Hate crimes in the Los Angeles Unified School District have risen 300% in the less than a decade, “where racially charged brawls have disrupted campuses in recent months.” That may make things sound worse than they are, however, since the absolute numbers show an increase from 12 in 1995-1996 to 52 in 2003-2004. And the […]
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