“Artificial Date” : “Estimated Timetable” :: Quota : Goal
In responding to President Bush’s Naval Academy speech and Iraq Strategy document, he Democrats come up with another distinction without a difference. In a Capitol Hill news conference, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. Jack Reed (R-R.I.) said they were disappointed by Bush’s plan, which they said fell short on specifics and ignored basic […]
Solomon Fears … And Inconsistencies
The Supreme Court will hear argument next week on the Solomon Amendment, which provides for cutting off federal funds to colleges that refuse to allow the military to recruit on campus. The attack on the amendment is being led by a group of law professors, supported by a number of law schools, universities, the AAUP, […]
Iraq As A “Reverse Vietnam” (But With The Same Old Democrats)
InstaPundit has a must-read post on Iraq as a “reverse Vietnam.” You really do need to read the whole post, but the gist of it is that [i]n Vietnam, the brass talked happy-talk, the press talked to grunts and reported that the war was going worse than we were told. But now it’s Americans who […]
“Black Minds” Vs. “Black Faces” And Worries About UVa’s Racial Reputation
The Charlottesville Daily Progress has a very long article today, beginning above the fold with a big picture and spilling over to most of an inside page, wondering whether the reported racial “incidents” at the beginning of this academic year at the University of Virginia, mentioned here several times, will “have any long-term effects on […]
Canadians Relent
Several days ago Fred Ray brought to my attention, and I to yours, that a Candian government agency had announced it was refusing to hire white men (North of the Border … And Around the Bend). Now Fred notices that, apparently having gotten caught at it, they’ve backed down: Ottawa rescinds hiring ban on able-bodied […]
Machiavelli’s Ghost
Gary Larson, on Intellectual Conservative, writes of the ghost of Machiavelli —
Does The “Dis-United Kingdom” Foresadow a Dis-United States?
Leo McKinstry, who describes himself as “an Irish-born writer who lives in both France and the United Kingdom,” has a very depressing article in the current Weekly Standard describing the wreck multiculturalism has made of modern Britain. Read the whole thing. Meanwhile here are some excerpts: In truth, Britain is now a deeply divided land, […]
The Reversals Of American Liberalism
One of my constant laments here over several years now is what I regard as the tragedy of the wholesale, lock-stock-and-barrel abandonment by liberals’ of the American core value — formerly a core liberal value as well — of colorblind neutrality, the principle that all individuals have a right to be treated without regard to […]
Reading Suspects Their Miranda Rights
In order to prevent abuse of readers who suspect they are reading legitimate and honest opinion, editors who publish anything by Miranda Massie, such as this recent OpEd, should be encouraged to publish along with it a new Miranda Warning: You have the right not to read this article. If you give up that right, […]
“White People Have Toenails”
Thomas Sowell‘s Townhall column today debunks the notion of “white flight, citing a recent Wall Street Journal article about two Silicon Valley high schools that are losing white students as Asian students move in. Sowell’s point, which he has written about extensively before: The phrase “white flight” is completely misleading. All over the world and […]
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