Race and racial bias
August 28, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Mia Love just delivered a brief but extremely powerful address to the convention. I wish she had been given more time and a somewhat better slot. Mia Love is a “Power Line Pick Six” candidate, so we already knew plenty about her. Yet she is even more dynamic at the podium than I had thought. Think of this Black Republican and her inspiring speech about self-reliance the next time Chris
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August 26, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Drudge links to Steve Malzberg’s video interview with former NFL star Burgess Owens. Owens looks about 15 or 20 years younger than his advertised age of 61. More importantly, he has a message that resonates strongly with those of us hoping to move our country back in the right direction. According to a recent NBC/Wall Street poll, Owens is a zero per center — i.e., one of the zero percent
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August 18, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Even the Boston Globe is sick of Joe Biden. Its editorial board recounts Biden’s unfortunate history of bigoted statements and urges the Vice President to apologize for his claim that Republican efforts to loosen bank regulations means “they’re going to put y’all back in chains.” (Actually, I think Biden said “they,” not “they’re”). The Globe despairingly notes that President Obama has said, through his spokesperson, that he has no problem
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August 17, 2012 — Scott Johnson
On Wednesday a reader noted that the Minneapolis Star Tribune had posted and removed a column by Imara Jones attacking Paul Ryan as bad for black Americans. Jones’s column is a small part of the MSM drill that Steve Hayward noted this past Sunday. The reader also observed that the Star Tribune had not enabled comments on the column and wondered why. Jones describes himself as a “New York-based blogger
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August 14, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Earlier today, as John noted, Joe Biden said the following to a predominantly black audience in Danville, Virginia: We got a real clear picture of what they all value. Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the — he said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again
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August 4, 2012 — John Hinderaker
Steve wrote here about NBC being attacked as “racist” for airing a commercial that showed a male monkey doing gymnastics, just after Gabrielle Douglas won an Olympic gold medal. Steve commented that it “[c]ouldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of useless media liberals.” True enough, but my reaction was a little different. I was pondering whether to write about it when I saw that Glenn Reynolds’ take was the
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June 10, 2012 — Scott Johnson
The featured op-ed column in today’s Star Tribune is our friend Katherine Kersten’s “State poised to enter a legal danger zone.” In a preview of coming attractions, Kathy observes that Minnesota’s liberal establishment has effectively set the state up for an educational adequacy lawsuit of the kind that has done such wonders for schools and kids elsewhere. Based on her own first-hand experience and related Center of the American Experiment
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May 25, 2012 — Steven Hayward
So while we’re on the subject of Indians Native Americans, have a look at a news story in today’s Wall Street Journal on how political correctness is backfiring on the Left. It seems the sensitivistas of Oregon have banned Indian names and Indian mascots from all high schools, at the penalty of having state aid cut to any school that does not comply. But some people are protesting—real, honest-to-God indigenous
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May 25, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
Mitt Romney visited West Philadelphia yesterday. His stated mission was “to learn, obviously, from people who are having experiences that are unique and instructive.” That’s a way of putting it. Romney was also looking for votes. This includes whatever few stray votes might be picked up in West Philadelphia, and also votes from whites who, reasonably enough, expect the president to care about poor people and minorities. George W. Bush
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May 19, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
What a coincidence. Less than two weeks after President Obama “evolved” into openly supporting same-sex marriage, the NAACP has passed a resolution supporting it too. “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous explained. He added that “the NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all
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May 9, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
An internal investigation at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has uncovered academic fraud involving the department of African and Afro-American Studies. The fraud extends to more than 50 different classes. It ranges from no-show professors to unauthorized grade changes for students. According to the findings of the investigation, the department of African and Afro-American Studies offered 616 classes from the Summer of 2007 through the Summer of 2009. This
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April 24, 2012 — John Hinderaker
The news story is horrifying: after a trivial encounter with a group of youths who were playing basketball, a man in Mobile, Alabama, was set upon by a gang of twenty men armed with brass knuckles, chairs, pipes and paint cans. The victim, Matthew Owens, was attacked on his own front porch and beaten within an inch of his life. He is in critical condition and may die: As the
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April 8, 2012 — Scott Johnson
We established beyond a reasonable doubt in our “Don’t leave it to Cleaver” series that Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver is one of the most reprehensible men in Congress. Cleaver and a few of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus retailed the story that Tea Party protesters abused them with racial epithets while the protesters demonstrated against Obamacare on Capitol Hill on March 20, 2010. McClatchy News swallowed the story
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March 29, 2012 — John Hinderaker
President Obama has fanned the flames of hatred in the Trayvon Martin case, and has not said a single critical word about the outrageous actions of the New Black Panthers, who offered a $10,000 bounty on George Zimmerman–the same New Black Panthers on whose behalf Eric Holder quashed a federal criminal prosecution; or of Spike Lee, who tweeted a wrong address for Zimmerman, presumably to facilitate harassment or even murder;
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March 25, 2012 — Scott Johnson
Anyone who spends time looking at crime statistics will discover the basics of race and crime before too long, but you better be careful not to talk about them in polite society. They are protected by a taboo even stronger than the Victorian taboo against public discussions of sex, but with good reason. The facts are painful. No one can take joy in publicizing them. Murder is the crime which
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March 24, 2012 — Scott Johnson
We seem to be in the “sentence first, verdict afterwards” phase of the Trayvon Martin affair. Speaking outside of his New York City headquarters, Al Sharpton said that it is important to show “sustained indignation” over Martin’s death. Has that cretin ever beat the drums for a cause that had truth or justice on its side? If so, I don’t remember it, but I suppose there’s always a first time.
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March 14, 2012 — Scott Johnson
After rescheduling, I’m going to speak this afternoon to my high school alma mater’s legal history class on the subject of racial disparities in the criminal justice system. I’m taking the liberty of reposting this item for the class. A few years back I had a personal encounter with the guy who helped create the firestorm over alleged racial profiling in traffic stops. It was an experience I will revisit
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