Hunting For Diversity
The Chronicle of Higher Education, and presumably its academic readership, thinks it newsworthy that a professor of environmental studies at Amherst College, Jan Dizard, is also a hunter. Mr. Dizard, who was instrumental in creating the environmental-studies major at Amherst, says he is the only professor at the college who hunts. That he is an […]
Aren’t You Glad Obama Has Ushered In Post-Racial America?
Don’t you wish someone would tell the Democratic office holders in East St. Louis, Missouri? (HatTip: Drudge) EAST ST. LOUIS — City officials seeking a new police chief passed up the former director of the Florida Highway Patrol, who formerly was a top commander of the Illinois State Police, because he is white, two former […]
UPDATE!
Hair Trigger Hat Trick, my post from a few days ago on Sen. Snowe’s “trigger” (hair trigger? tripwire?), has been UPDATED.
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Recently we have seen the fabrication of false quotes attributed to Rush Limbaugh, and swallowed hook, line, and sinker by those in the media who are predisposed to believe him a raving racist. That sort of thing has, unfortunately, become not quite common but also far from rare, as the line between incompetence and partisan […]
Shear Partisanship In The Washington Post
Michael Shear is identified as a “Washington Post Staff Writer,” but as we last saw here, his news articles are often indistinguishable from Washington Post editorials. A few days ago Shear wrote that The White House is moving aggressively to remove the U.S. Chamber of Commerce from its traditional Washington role as the chief representative […]
Friends And Enemies
First, let me introduce you (if you don’t already know him) to a friend, Joseph C. Phillips. You’ve probably seen him many times, even if you don’t remember: he played the role of, Lt. Martin Kendall, Bill Cosby’s son-in-law, on “The Cosby Show.” More recently, and more relevant to our current concerns, he has become […]
Health Care Hat Trick?
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED] Ostensibly Republican Senator Olympia Snowe has taken her stand, such as it is, objecting to the “public option” but offering what is billed as a compromise: a “trigger” provision that will allow the creation of some sort (what sort?) of public option in the future if insurance premiums remain […]
Peggy Noonan Misses The Turn To McCarthyism…
Peggy Noonan gets most things right, with verve and wit, and even when she’s wrong her writing is often impressive enough to pull along even disagreeing readers. She usually hits the slow pitches of idiocy and offensiveness thrown by our politics out of the park, but today she strikes out on Obama’s Fox war. The […]
Red Beats Blue!
News we hope we can use from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Observing that athletes who wore red uniforms in the 2004 Olympics were more likely to win when competing against athletes wearing blue uniforms, researchers at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, in Romania, decided to pit the two colors against each […]
One More Victim Of Illinois Preferential Treatment Policy
[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED] Last month I asked whether the Chicago Tribune was purposefully misleading or merely incompetent for running an article under this headline: New U. of I. board eliminates preferential admissions. “The assertion in the headline is, of course, not true,” I noted. What the new board eliminated was only the […]
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