The Mother Of All Signing Statements
[NOTE: Please see the important UPDATE to this post] Some of you are old enough to remember — or not so old that you can’t remember (me? my memory’s still so good I can’t recall the last time I forgot anything) — that just a few short years ago the left was giving President Bush [...]
Folk Music, Blueberries, And The Decline Of Hope
There’s so much race stuff to discuss right now that missing a day or three creates an enormous backlog, which I now have since Helene (the Discriminating wife) and I are in White Plains visiting Jessie (the Discriminating daughter) for a week. (Don’t worry; Mosby the Discriminating Dog is being well cared for at home). [...]
Of Course This Is Not A Quota!
According to Inside Higher Ed this morning, The University of California at San Diego has announced that it has authorized 33 new faculty searches for 2010-11 — and that 12 of the searches will be focused on hires who will “contribute to diversity, equity and climate of inclusion at UC San Diego.” This obviously-not-a-quota at [...]
Webb Untangled!
Senator James Webb, Democrat of Virginia, has done what too many Republicans are too afraid to do — call for an outright end to the “plethora of government-enforced diversity policies.” In a truly remarkable OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, Webb writes that “present-day diversity programs … [have] expanded so far beyond their original purpose [...]
The Silver Lining In The Shirley Sherrod Cloud
The always optimistic Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, sends the following thoughts re Shirley Sherrod et al., which I quote with permission: A Happy Thought re Tea Parties, New Black Panthers, the NAACP, et al. It is heartening that everyone involved in these controversies — the Obama administration, [...]
Just The Facts, Please
I know this sounds quaint, but I remain convinced that our political discourse would be improved if reporters stuck to reporting … and pollsters stuck to presenting the results of their polls and surveys, keeping their opinions to themselves unless we ask for them. It’s not as though we have a shortage of opinion or [...]
The Washington Post Apologizes
Wanna hear a good one? On Sunday the Washington Post ombudsman apologized for his paper’s lack of coverage of the Justice Dept.’s dropping the New Black Panther Party case. Among other things, he said, [i]f Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his department are not colorblind in enforcing civil rights laws, they should be [...]
White House to Impose “Fairness” on Education Spending
Someone I’ve been linking with increasing frequency lately has another disturbing post on Minding The Campus today, this one on an announced attempt by the White House to make sure that state education spending is “fair” and “equitable” and has no “disparities.”
More On Quota Tsunami In FinReg
Those of you who read The Coming Quota Tsunami will not be surprised by very much that appears in MSM Ignored Racial, Gender Quotas in Financial Reform Bill, which appeared yesterday on Big Journalism, but I encourage you to take a look at it anyway.
Obama’s Legacy
I know, I know. Obama’s not gone yet, and predictions of his political demise are premature. Thus I may be among the first to discuss his legacy, but I believe the outlines of that legacy are beginning to emerge. “By now,” the Washington Times editorialized yesterday, the default judgment about the Barack Obama-Eric H. Holder [...]
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