Ironic Award
[NOTE: November 30. An important UPDATE has been added to this post!] The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking nominations for its 2010 “Fulfilling the Dream” award, an annual honor bestowed upon those who personify and promote “the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” One of the 2009 winners was “Students United for Nebraska, the […]
Sometimes A Headline Says It All…
From the first page of the Metro Section in today’s Washington Post: Alexandria rethinks gifted education MORE DIVERSITY SOUGHT IN CLASSES The headline is so complete that the article hardly needs any text, and the text that follows contains no surprises. It begins: When Alexandria Superintendent Morton Sherman walks the halls of the city’s schools […]
Stark Racial Divide In Views Of Obama
[NOTE: This post has a new ADDENDUM] Rasmussen reports today that President Obama “earns approval from 97% of African-American voters and disapproval from 61% of white voters.” Looking at those with intense feelings, Rasmussen reports that “Seventy-four percent (74%) of African-Americans Strongly Approve along with just 19% of white voters.” Barack Obama made his debut […]
Ricci Finally Gets His Promotion!
Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton, who threw out the case brought by New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci et. al., “entered a judgment finding that the city violated the civil rights of a group of white firefighters when it threw out two promotional exams in 2004, and ordered the city to promote 14 […]
Are The Democrats Nuts?
This has become a serious, not metaphorical, question, a question seriously considered by serious analysts. Although there is not (yet?) a consensus, more and more analysts are answering in the affirmative. Thus Jay Cost, one of my favorites, asked a few days ago, Have Democratic Leaders Gone Mad? After noting that proposing cuts in Medicare […]
Does History Have Sides?
I studied history for a number of years, but I never could figure out something that Sherrod Brown, the left-wing Democratic Senator from Ohio, expresses with great if unearned confidence: History has “sides,” for and against, and it always supports progressives against their opponents. Speaking of the four Democratic “moderates” who oppose parts of the […]
Witch Hunt
Inside Higher Ed reported Friday, based on an article in the Lincoln Journal Star, that “the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has agreed to pay $40,000 to a former employee who says she was fired after the university learned that she is a witch.” The Journal Star reported that the plaintiff, identified only as Jane […]
UPDATE!
George Bernard Shaw On Mary Landrieu ha received an important UPDATE.
CNN Poll: Interesting Unasked Question
From a CNN poll released yesterday morning: Thirty-six percent of people questioned said that President Obama’s policies have improved economic conditions, with 28 percent feeling that the president’s programs have made things worse, and 35 percent saying what he’s done has had no effect on the economy. Do 35 percent of the people (adults, not […]
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