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Shameless Schumer

Pardon the redundancy, but Sen. Schumer has outdone himself (via Taranto). This morning I went and visited Rosa Parks in the Capitol Rotunda to pay my respects. Being in the presence of Ms. Parks was awe-inspiring. This was a woman who changed history with one thin dime. She paid her fare and took her rightful […]

The Best May Not Be The Brightest II

About a month ago I discussed (here) an interesting article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell about the illuminating and entertaining history of admissions in the Ivy League. Gladwell’s article was based on a new book by Jerome Karabel, a Berkeley sociologist, The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, […]

The Presidents Have A Party …

… and much more often than not it’s Democrat. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that twice as many college presidents voted for John Kerry than George Bush. That would seem to put them out of sync both with their faculties, who are much more overwhelmingly Democratic, and with the general public, which is […]

MCRI Wins!

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative has just been certified for the ballot by the Michigan Court of Appeals! Details to follow.

An Added Benefit To Nominating A Virginian

Judges Michael Luttig and J. Harvie Wilkinson both currently serve on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and both appeal to conservatives. Luttig has made virtually all, and Wilkinson some, of the various unofficial short lists of Supreme Court lists that are currently being circulated. Luttig is a bit younger and appeals strongly to movement […]

Ah, What Might Have Been…

The Democratic disappointment that Patrick Fitzgerald did not expose and indict a White House conspiracy to break the law is palpable, and easy to spot in the mainstream media. I’m not sure it’s worthwhile continuing to quote these transparent biases, but this description in Newsweek, by Howard Fineman and Richard Wolffe, of Fitzgerald’s indictment of […]

The Great Racial Bargain, The Great Alibi, And The Treasury Of Virtue

Shelby Steele is one of those rare writers who leaves readers — at least he leaves me — different after reading one of his powerful essays. His perception can be so penetrating, even profound, and his prose so inconspicuously effective that more than once reading an essay of his has changed the way I look […]

Seeking Saddam Seeking…

I have not delved into all the nooks and crannies of the Plame Game nearly as much as legions of other bloggers, and so I remain confused on a central point. I’m sure some of you will unconfuse me. Today in the Washington Post Howard Kurz writes that “Libby’s actions appear driven by press criticism […]

Good Advice … Made Better

Prof. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton, offers some good advice today in the Wall Street Journal. First, he describes the problem: For more than 40 years, it has been a primary goal of the conservative movement to restore the […]

Can A Coach Say Blacks Can Run Fast?

Writing in the Rocky Mountain News, Paul Campos observes that when the subject is race saying the obvious always such an obviously good idea: Air Force football coach Fisher DeBerry apologized Wednesday for making the following statement at an earlier press conference: “Afro-American kids can run very, very well,” DeBerry said. “That doesn’t mean that […]