http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ en-us john@jsw4.net 2006-02-08T12:39:13-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/000000.html 0@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ From Blogger 2006-02-08T12:39:13-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003647.html Cigarette smoke is racist! Or so some people are likely to conclude from a study recently described by Sally Satel (HatTip to Mychal Massie): Cigarette smoke may not be an equal opportunity carcinogen. According to a report in last week’s... 3647@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-02-06T12:55:41-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003645.html There is an interesting article in today’s USA Today that notes (and, to a large extent, laments) the lack of strong, or at least unified, black leadership. [Coretta Scott King’s] role as a moral and symbolic leader was unique, and... 3645@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-02-04T20:54:07-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003643.html Less than a month ago I pointed, here, to a post by Kimberly Swygert about a lawsuit in which a black policeman complained that he was given a plum assignment because he was black. Now Chetly Zarko cites and discusses... 3643@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-02-02T23:57:49-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003642.html So far the campaign in Maryland for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, to replace retiring Sen. Paul Sarbanes, is turning into an upleasant black-white conflict. According to fundraising figures released yesterday, Mr. Mfume — the former president of... 3642@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-02-02T23:29:20-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003640.html So, you think librarians always defend free speech and oppose censorship, especially of books? Read this, and think again. A debate within the American Library Association over whether to condemn Cuba for jailing dissident librarians grew fiercer last week after... 3640@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-02-02T10:32:52-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003639.html For the past 11 years the University of Virginia has had a higher black graduation rate than any other public university. As the January 13 issue of the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reports, The University of Virginia has... 3639@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-02-02T01:02:29-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003638.html It seems to me that the Alito nomination has done in the two main refrains of the recent Democratic mantra: 1) That the Republican nominees are “out of the mainstreamâ€?; and 2) That the “nuclear optionâ€? — barring filibusters of... 3638@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-31T20:46:41-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003637.html Not long ago I wrote (“Driving While Undocumentedâ€?) about whether recent law enforcement initiatives, such as limiting the number of unrelated persons who can live in one residence, were discriminatory against immigrants. According to two stories today in USA Today... 3637@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-31T11:58:18-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003636.html Some social scientists seem to think so. See a report on their work that tends to agree with their conclusion here. I sent the link to a social scientist I respect and asked, among other things, whether some of the... 3636@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-30T23:50:58-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003635.html Noam Scheiber makes an interesting observation on the New Republic blog: Some commentators, like David Brooks, have mistakenly grafted the political milieu of the '70s and early '80s onto contemporary politics. They argue that Democrats are losing elections because they're... 3635@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-30T19:24:17-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003634.html The Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a long article reporting the increasingly successful ground war the Center for Equal Opportunity, the American Civil Rights Institute, and others are waging against college programs that discriminate on the basis of... 3634@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-27T15:20:25-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003633.html I was struck by what was surely an unintentional, though revealing, slip by Sen. Dick Durbin yesterday in the following passage in his extensive remarks denouncing Judge Alito. [Note: the preceding link probably won’t work, as the Library of Congress... 3633@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-26T20:32:27-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003632.html Most of you have probably seen references over the past few days to a survey conducted by the American Association of University Women purporting to find that a substantial majority of college students report being the victims of sexual harassment.... 3632@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-26T15:26:08-05:00 http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/storage/003631.html The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in the past approved employment discrimination under a “rational basisâ€? standard, has now reversed itself and, applying “strict scrutiny, has sided with applicants to the Shreveport fire department who claim they were discriminated... 3631@http://d15304.u24.kinetixhosting.com/ politics 2006-01-26T12:00:22-05:00