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Category Archives: Race
Bogus Civility
Finally someone said what I’ve been thinking about this constant call to civility: Have we transformed into so brittle a citizenry that we are unable to handle a raucous debate over the future of the country? If things were quiet, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Gov't Spending, Health Care, Race, Synova's Page, Uncategorized
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Is Today “Historic?”
In one sense, today is an historic day. We’ve now sworn in our 44th President, in yet another peaceful transition of the leadership of our government. But it seems to me that the only other way to see this day … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Keith's Page, Race
Tagged inauguration, Martin Luther King, MLK, Obama
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The Realism of Ward Connerly
Good Magazine takes a lengthy look at the always fascinating Ward Connerly, and his struggle to end Affirmative Action in the United States. While he continues to be vilified by the defenders of “positive discrimination” and as his ballot initiatives … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Law, Race
Tagged affirmative action, ballot initiatives, Good Managine, idealism, Race, racial preferences, realism, Ward Connerly
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Potential interpretations…
This is the standard. (h/t Blackfive) And considering the pins-and-needles environment that is the current political landscape, the comment has the potential of being interpreted as racially divisive. What comment? “Rest assured,” he told the crowd, “that men like Senator … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Race, Sports, Synova's Page
Tagged Bellavia, heroes, McCain, Obama, Tiger Woods
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Let’s NOT talk about race
So I’m going down the page at Instapundit and find a link to this story about an Obama delegate that was asked to quit. Why? On Saturday, two neighbor children were playing in the tree next-door to her house. Ramirez-Sliwinski … Continue reading
Tibet Simmers
Tibet seems to be ill at ease with the Chinese again. With good reason—the last five decades can be called nothing short of cultural rape. Some of this was partially sparked by an ill-timed outburst from Björk, of all people, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Race, social science
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Good Intentions; Frightening Results
This morning, I read a column from the Wall Street Journal about race. Just when we thought we’d heard everything from the diversity police, here they come trying to prescribe even the color of charity. The California Assembly last … Continue reading
Posted in Eugenics, Law, Peg's Page, Race, Society
Tagged charity, Greenlining Institute, Holocaust Museum, Race
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Silk Purses and Sow’s Ears
(Cross Posted at What if?) We all know that you cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear. Similarly, an anti-racism conference that features Libya as its chair, with Cuba as its vice-chair, has virtually no chance of achieving … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Media, Peg's Page, Race
Tagged Canada, Cuba, HRC, human rights, Human Rights Comittee, Israel, Libya, racism, UN
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Parade of Fools
Behold the band of idiots. JENA, La. (Jan. 21) – The residents of this central Louisiana town, who watched their community turn into a battleground over the “Jena Six,” will watch out-of-towners doing most of the marching on the birthday … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Media, MichaelW's Page, Race, Society
Tagged Jena 6, media bias, media narrative, MLK day, myths
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Jindal sworn in as Louisiana’s governor
(cross posted at Risk and Return) The most prominent Indian American politician in American history has now been sworn in as governor: Bobby Jindal took the oath of office as Louisiana’s 55th governor at noon today, becoming the state’s first … Continue reading
Posted in Baton Rouge, Domestic Politics, Louisiana Politics, Media, Race
Tagged Baton Rouge, Bobby Jindal, Domestic Politics, Governor, inauguration, Lousiana, reconstruction, Republican
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The Glenn Greenwald Carnival of Fisking has some new entries
First, let us all go and see Eric Scheie delve into the sock drawer and how the moth eaten brain now, amongst all the other charges, believes Glenn Reynolds is a racist! The puppy blending, mass murder and nuclear holocaust … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Humor, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Race
Tagged , Glenn Greenwald, homophobia, Hormuz, Instapundit, Iran, racism
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Ron Paul on Racism
I don’t think Ron Paul is a racist, or rather I don’t claim to have any evidence he is, and that is enough to hold from suggesting he is. However, his view of racism and its history is rather bizarre … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, History, Lance's Page, Race
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Dale Franks and the YAF
Some things really tend to leave me with my mouth refusing to shut in astonishment. Now read this: The Little Green Footballs blog decided to condemn MSU-YAF for hosting Nick Griffin. In case you do not read Little Green Footballs, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, Race, Society
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Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later — Indoctrination
I hadn’t ever seen this series before, but I have to admit that I find this stuff pretty damn scary: That’s just a snippet of what is apparently being taught to our kids of high school age. Not only are … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Media, MichaelW's Page, Race, Society
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The Disappointing Usefulness of Simple Stereotypes
A reporter for the local paper of Jena, LA is pretty disgusted with the coverage of the events surrounding the trials involving the “Jena Six.” We have expressed confusion and frustration over the coverage here, here and here. As I … Continue reading
The Disparities around Jena
A thoughtful look at the story of the Jena Six and the controversy surrounding the case by Steve Coll. The criticisms of Reed Walters are reasonable. Of more interest to me is his point about problems of incarceration rates in … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Race, Society
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Justice in Jena-Updated
As a Louisiana native I probably should have weighed in on the “Jena Six.” Like Michael, and many others, my initial reluctance has been being unsure of what really happened due to sketchy and conflicting reporting. What I can say … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Law, Louisiana Politics, Media, Race, Society
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Jena In A Bottle
I have been following this story for about a week now, and I still can’t figure out what happened. Most of the core facts seem to be in dispute, such as whether or not the nooses in the “White Tree” … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Louisiana Politics, Media, MichaelW's Page, Race
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The moral bankruptcy of the South African political class
Jamie Kerchick asks if it is time to consider knocking off Mugabe. Probably won’t happen even if it is the right thing to do, but this is part of the reason I despise Thabo Mbeki: As an umpteenth example of … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Race
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The Vile Louisiana Democratic Party Strikes Again
Possibly the most despicable, corrupt, racist and venal political major organization in our nation hails from my home state of Louisiana. I am speaking of the Louisiana Democratic Party. The iron grip this organization has held my state in for … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Louisiana Politics, Race
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News Brief, Need Your Needs Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. The Pentagon In laying out his thoroughly convincing case against widespread instant adaptation of the MRAP, the Robot Economist says something I thought profound: “One thing that I have noticed about about U.S. operations in Iraq … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Media, Military Matters, Notes on the war, Race
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Racist Referees?
I haven’t read the paper, just the article, the executive summary, the discussion on the radio, at Matthew Yglesias’ and at Marginal Revolution. So maybe these points have been covered in the full paper in a satisfactory manner. I also … Continue reading
Posted in Lance's Page, Media, Race, social science, Sports
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News Brief, Mission of Burma Edition
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer. The Pentagon This account of an NSA Recruiting drive wasn’t all that remarkable, except for one bit I had never heard before. “It was mentioned that people who had done a lot of illegal file sharing … Continue reading
L’affaire Imus
I haven’t written about the Imus brouhaha, nor have my blogmates. I was tempted for a bit, though only to express my consternation that Imus was being portrayed as a conservative, which is ridiculous. I was disheartened by this, though … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Lance's Page, Media, Race
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Shift Happens: No more boring statistics
(Via: Pajamas) Please watch this. In understanding the world our ignorance is a problem, but greater still are the things which we believe we know about the world that we do not. Luckily for you, this is entertaining. Within minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Developmental economics, Economics, Education, Race, social science, Technology
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Logic Problems at Salon
The subtext of this Salon piece? People in Louisiana sure are stupid. Because everything that went wrong after Katrina was Bush’s fault, and yet the state is growing more staunchly Republican. I’m going to just leave the “it’s all Bush’s … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Louisiana Politics, Race, Robby's Page
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Dred Scott RIP-Updated
I suggest taking a trip to Gateway Pundit for a fine tribute to Dred Scott, who passed away 150 years ago. In memory of a simple man who wanted to be free. His stone reads… “Subject of the decision of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Lance's Page, Law, Race
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Welcome to the Mainstream Amanda!-Updated
I don’t spend much time at Pandagon, I just breeze through to see what the nuttier parts of the left side of the blogosphere are up to. Of course I have always taken a particular shine to chuckling at Amanda … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Race
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That didn’t take long- Biden sticks foot in mouth
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,†he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man. -Joe Biden Did he really say he is the first such African-American? Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Humor, Lance's Page, Media, Race
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From the Department of “You have got to be kidding”
The Nation of Islam has a sports blog (Hat tip: Three Sources) and it is a riot. I thought the nonsense at the Stormfront (not linking, I tired of their schtick when I linked to them last time) site was … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Race, Sports
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