Retreat, Redistribution, Regulation, Racialism
The declining popularity of President Obama and his handling of both domestic and foreign affairs has for a while now fueled either hopeful or fearful memories of 1994, when the Republicans took over Congress. A better comparison might be to 1884, when the Democrats were largely done in by a devastating slogan that branded them […]
More “Wonderment and Happiness”
Will The Democrats Reap “Wonderment And Happiness”? has been UPDATED.
Steele Yourself
Way back in the latter middle part (or early late part) of the last century, when under the influence of the developing civil rights movement liberal impulses were just beginning to stir formerly somnolent Stanford, where I was then an undergraduate, an older, activist graduate student for the first time decided to run for student […]
If I Followed Their Example…
Many, perhaps most, leftists — from former President Carter down to lowly bloggers like Matthew Yglesias — obviously believe that opposition to Obama is fueled by racism. So, following their analytical example, perhaps it’s time for me to conclude that anyone who disagrees with me must be anti-semitic. (Or maybe just a Yankee, since my […]
Will The Democrats Reap “Wonderment And Happiness”?
Compare Harry Reid’s prediction from the Senate floor before the final health care vote — We’re going to hear an earful, but it’s going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time — with the greeting of Sen. Christopher Dodd at a news conference shortly after he […]
Berkeley Solves Racial Achievement Gap!
The Berkeley High School Governance Council is considering, with “virtually unanimous” agreement, an ingenious (or perhaps ungenius) proposal to close its “dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.” (HatTip to a reader from Berkeley.) The solution is both obvious […]
Tar Heel Preferences
Compare this recent University of North Carolina Daily Tar Heel editorial — Admissions decisions should be based solely on the merits of one’s application. Although the female-to-male ratio at universities across the country is rising, administrators at UNC shouldn’t begin giving preferential treatment to male applicants…. Regardless of how wide the gender gap becomes, it […]
Opaque Transparency
Compare Pelosi, Reid to Hold Closed-Door Meetings to Decide Final Bill… to Obama’s campaign promises: November 2007: “We are going to have a big table, and everybody is going to be invited, labor, employers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, patient advocate groups. The drug and insurance companies, they’ll all get a seat at the table. … […]
The CBO’s “Alternate Universe” (And Mickey Kaus’s?)
Mickey Kaus has been following the Obamacare debate much more closely, and deeply, than I, and although I disagree with his bottom line — he’s for it — he has cogently skewered most of the deficit/debt/cost curve bending defenses of it. See, for example, his recent post arguing that the CBO lives in an “alternate […]
Are Republicans More Principled Than Democrats?
[NOTE: This post has been Updated] Ordinarily I’d say that commitment to principle, or its absence, is bi-partisan, that Republicans are neither more virtuous nor more concerned with the public interest than Democrats (or, obviously, vice versa), but a glaringly obvious yet under-remarked aspect of Harry Reid’s recent “Cash for Cloture” auction for health care […]
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