A Defense Of Rand Paul (Or At Least Criticism Of His Critics)
A. Barton Hinkle has an excellent column in the Richmond Times Dispatch skewering many of Rand Paul’s critics for the hypocrites they are. He entertained the Libertarian notion that private entities ought to be allowed to discriminate. His most vociferous critics, on the other hand, vociferously support discrimination by both private and public entities. Hinkle [...]
More On The Assumptions Of Obama-like (or -liking) Americans
Yesterday I quoted Matt Bai, writing in the New York Times, arguing that anyone who “question[s] the responsibilities of government and private entities when it comes to race” is an “ideological outlier” but that, even so, “Americans the president’s age and younger are inclined to assume that one can question” those race policies “without necessarily [...]
More Startling Education News
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning: High-School Dropout Rate Is Cited as a Key Barrier to Obama’s College-Completion Goal Really? Who’d a thunk. A senior Education Department official, speaking at a college-readiness forum [in Washington] on Tuesday, singled out the nation’s dropout rate among high-school students as a key obstacle to fulfilling President [...]
Still Crazy After All These Years…
Writing in the New York Times, Matt Bai is bewildered that “2010’s Debates Still Trapped in the 1960s.” This wrinkle in the political space-time continuum was supposed to have been smoothed out, of course. Barack Obama based his presidential campaign on the notion that the nation needed to step past the cultural chasm of an [...]
The Restful President
May 14, 2010 Obama Says He Will Not Rest Until Oil Spill is Contained Drudge Report, May 25, 2010 Another Vacation? Obama schedules second since oil spill… Withdrew to Grove Park Inn & Spa as flow began to grow…
Cereal Offender! Don’t Eat Any More Cornflakes …
… until you read this breakfast-spoiling piece by Stephan Thernstrom about what the Kellogg Foundation is doing.
An Edley Medley
We’ve encountered Christopher Edley, currently dean of the Boalt Hall law school at the University of California, Berkeley, a number of times: here, describing him as a former White House aide, co-author of President Clinton’s “mend it, don’t end it” review of affirmative action policies, advisor to Clinton’s race commission, fervent advocate of racial preferences [...]
What Ails Males?
At least since 2000, the American Council on Education has reported, about 57% of college students have been women. This “underrepresentation” of men may or may not be a problem, and if it is it may or may not be a big one, but even if it is and is a big one it may [...]
San Francisco: Hilarious Or Pathetic (Or Both?)
Sometimes reality — especially in California — can be stranger than fiction, more humorous than stand-up comedy, more pathetic than loud drunks. A good example was on display in the California Supreme Court about ten days ago. By approving Proposition 209 in 1996 the voters of California amended their constitution to bar the state from [...]
The Democrats: Deeming A Budget…
Remember back when the Dems didn’t have enough votes to pass health care they trotted out “a so-called ‘deem and pass’ strategy that would allow House members to approve the Senate version of health care bill without an actual vote before taking up a second ‘fix-it’ resolution, known as reconciliation”? Now they’re at it again, [...]
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