The Obama Meritocracy
The day after Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States, a Republican friend of mine who teaches in the public schools in Harlem commented that there was good news in the...
View ArticleWhat If Sotomayor Were White?
Take everything that is known about Sonia Sotomayor and change three factors -- her race, sex, and family's initial socioeconomic status -- and the points cited in praise of her selection would be...
View ArticleSotomayor Down Under
President Barack Obama recently nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor of New York, a Latina jurist, to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to her nomination, there were...
View ArticleFinancial Affirmative Action Returns
We need more bureaucrats to strong-arm banks into doing the stupid things that got America and the rest of the world into this colossal financial mess in the first place, argues the Obama...
View ArticleThe Borking of Frank Ricci
If I were a betting man, I would wager that the person who will face the toughest scrutiny at Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee won't be the...
View ArticleSotomayor and Affirmative Action
Is Judge Sonia Sotomayor a product of grinding poverty and beneficiary of affirmative action, and now a victim of its unintended consequences? Or has she instead cynically embraced affirmative action...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Militaries
As the Ft. Hood massacre and military "diversity" talk clearly shows, ours is a tale of two militaries. One military is battle hardened and forward deployed; the other is soft, bureaucratic and...
View ArticleSupreme Court Ruling Empowers Voters to Strike Down Racial Preferences
When Sandra Day O’Connor wrote her majority opinion in the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger Supreme Court decision, she explicitly said that voters had every right to strike down race and gender preferences....
View ArticleGoing Negative on Affirmative Action
UPIThe good news about yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling is that it affirmed the right of the people to ban racial preferences in university admissions. The bad news is that it didn't go further.In...
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