A Crumby Gender Gap Response
According to an article in the New York Times today, the Wikipedia Foundation, the organization that runs Wikipedia, has its knickers in a twist over the discovery that “barely 13 percent” of its more than 3.5 million articles were written by women. Naturally the foundation found this female underrepresentation unacceptable and “has set a goal […]
A Likely Story
Peter Wallsten reported in the Washington Post yesterday that, “With 2012 looming, Obama focuses on economy.” Does that sound familiar? It should. Obama was still learning his way around the White House in March 2009, less than two months after his inauguration, when it was already being reported that The new buzz-word in Washington is […]
Gay-mandering?
In December 2009 Annise Parker was elected mayor of Houston, making it, The Huffington Post gleefully reported, “the largest U.S. city to ever have an openly gay mayor.” Last month, Houston’s FOX 26 Morning News reported, Mayor Annise Parker abruptly walked out of her own press conference at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon. That came […]
A Common Creed?
In his State of the Union address last night President Obama ably impersonated the Barack Obama, then a Senate candidate in Illinois, who declared in his well-regarded keynote address to the 2004 Democratic Convention that there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America. There’s not a black America […]
Obama And The Left’s Single-Issue Libertarianism
Yesterday President Obama issued an odd statement commemorating the Supreme Court’s divisive abortion decision: Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects women’s health and reproductive freedom, and affirms a fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters. I am committed to protecting this constitutional […]
Obama: Reckless Driver
President Obama now says “Our Job Now Is Putting Our Economy Into Overdrive.” This statement assumes a number of things that are varying degrees of not true: 1. That the economy is out of the ditch, the president’s past favorite metaphor. 2. That the economy is not only out of the ditch but is driving […]
Racial Exclusion Still Lives, Unmolested
Compare Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. (42 U.S.C. Section 2000d). to […]
Book Review At The Pope Center
I have a review of Equal Opportunity In Higher Education: The Past And Future Of California’s Proposition 209 in the Pope Center for Higher Education’s Clarion Call. The book is a collection of monotonously un-diverse essays and comments (with the notable exception of a comment by Peter Schmidt of the Chronicle of Higher Education) by […]
Encore! Two Recycled Posts In Honor Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
[First posted on Martin Luther King Day, 2004] What Do We Honor When We Honor Martin Luther King? (And Who Are “We”?) When President Bush went to Atlanta last week to lay a wreath on Martin Luther King’s grave, he was greeted with demonstrations and howls of protest. “One protester,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, “held […]
Rasmussen On Race Relations
Rasmussen reports, based on past and recent polls, that in January 2009, “the month the nation inaugurated its first African-American president, 70% of voters said relations between blacks and whites were getting better.” By October of that year, however, “just 36% said the same.” Now, a new poll has found that “just 33% of Adults […]
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