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Discriminations

who? Discriminations is the joint production of John and Jessie Rosenberg. John is one of the world's older grad students, now completing a 30-year overdue dissertation at Stanford on discrimination. Jessie is a 16 year old junior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in physics.
\r\nwhat? John's focus, not surprisingly, will be on the theory and practice of discrimination, and how it is reported and analyzed.
\r\nJessie's will be discriminating thoughts on ... whatever catches her fancy or attracts her attention. (Email: jrosenbe@brynmawr.edu)

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So That Explains It...

Posted on September 19, 2008
Some political scientists, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning, are exploring what they believe are genetic influences on political behavior. If conservatives and liberals can?t see eye to eye, it may be because their brains are wired differently from birth, according to researchers who have for the first time found a link between people?s political leanings and their physiology...

NPR Joins The ?Uppity,? Racist Parade

Posted on September 18, 2008
Dick Meyer has an NPR blog called ?Against The Grain.? He describes himself ?director of Digital Media at NPR.org ,? and he describes ?Against The Grain? as ?a mix of sarcastic sociology and comic moral philosophy that occasionally descends into political commentary...

What Is CNN?

Posted on September 17, 2008
In my post yesterday I was unsure whether a glaring omission in a CNN news story was based on ?sloppiness or bias.? But after looking at Jack Cafferty?s CNN article today, I?m not even sure what CNN is. I always thought it was a news organization, but this piece is much more like a bad opinion piece than news...

CNN Ad Article: Sloppy Or Biased?

Posted on September 16, 2008
Gianna Jessen survived a botched abortion in 1977. Now she is featured in an independent ad criticizing Obama?s four votes against legislation protecting infants, like her, who were accidentally born alive. ?If Barack Obama had his way,? she says, ?I wouldn't be here...

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Race War II

Posted on September 16, 2008
About two weeks ago I noted (following Drudge) the prediction of Fatimah Ali, Obamanut and Philadelphia Daily News columnist, that [i]f McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness ? and hopelessness! Now she?s back, standing by her prediction, which, however, has become ?metaphorical,? whatever that may mean in this context...

Unthinking Dimwits

Posted on September 15, 2008
Bob Herbert of the New York Times is scared, and he thinks we too should be very afraid. While watching the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson Thursday night, and the coverage of the Palin phenomenon in general, I?ve gotten the scary feeling, for the first time in my life, that dimwittedness is not just on the march in the U...

Walter Shapiro: Bad Mood, No Tense, Dubious Fact

Posted on September 15, 2008
The reliably liberal Walter Shapiro has an interesting article in Salon today on the race (and the role of race in the race) in Ohio. But I don?t want to discuss most of his evidence or argument now. Instead, consider he says here: A striking feature of the University of Cincinnati's Ohio Poll, which was released Friday, was that while McCain is winning the support of 90 percent of Republican voters, Obama is only picking up 82 percent of the Democrats...

More Mismatch

Posted on September 15, 2008
On Friday the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a public briefing on affirmative action in the STEM fields ? science, technology, engineering , math. I attended, but rather than subject you to a report based on an attempt to make sense of my notes I will refer you instead to two summaries published this morning ? this one, by Peter Schmidt in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and this one, by Jack Stripling on InsideHigherEd...

More Mainstream Media Swallowing Obama Line...

Posted on September 13, 2008
Have I mentioned lately that much of the mainstream press is not only biased but also incompetent? A few days ago I did criticize an article in the New York Times for claiming that [a]t the Democratic convention in Denver, the party?s platform was indeed expanded to embrace anti-abortion views...

Lipstick And Double Standards

Posted on September 11, 2008
[NOTE: This post has been Updated] I?ve just had a very bad experience, and the worst part of it is that I asked for it. Twice. Last night I watched MSNBC?s Chris Matthews spend an entire hour on Hardball last night defending Obama?s innocence of any innuendo in his ?lipstick? remark and attacking McCain and the Republicans for making an issue of it...

Another Feel-Good Diversity Study

Posted on September 10, 2008
The Journal of the American Medical Association has an article summarizing a new study lauding the benefits of ?diversity? in medical association. The study set out ?[t]o determine whether student body racial and ethnic diversity is associated with diversity-related outcomes among US medical students...

Not In My Back Yard: A Biden Gaffe ... Or Revealing Honesty?

Posted on September 10, 2008
Speaking in Virginia Beach last week, Sen. Joe Biden charged that Republicans believe prosperity depends on the Federal Government providing national defense and raising money for that purpose only....What happens in your back yard is your problem and your problem alone...

UPDATE!

Posted on September 10, 2008
The Old (Young) Biden vs. The New (Old) Biden I has been Updated.

The Old (Young) Biden vs. The New (Old) Biden I

Posted on September 09, 2008
An Irish-Catholic politician, born in Scranton, Pa., blessed with the gift of gab, an influential leader of his party with a very progressive record but someone with a strong appeal to Reagan Democrats, union members, blue collar workers.... You might think I?m describing Joe Biden ? selected as Obama?s VP, according to the Los Angeles Times and others, because of his ?potential appeal to white, blue-collar Democrats? ? but I?m not...

Dems Continue To See Racism In Every Criticism

Posted on September 09, 2008
Today it was New York Governor David Patterson?s turn to enter the sweepstakes for the most inane sighting of racism in criticism of Obama. New York Gov. David Paterson said Tuesday that there were racial overtones in the Republican presidential ticket?s criticism of Democrat Barack Obama?s work as a community organizer...

The Dems Turn Nasty

Posted on September 09, 2008
At 7:00 A.M this morning Victor Davis Hanson made a perspicacious prediction: Expect Obama/Biden to get a little desperate and resort to more and more negative campaigning.... In this cycle of the see-saw race, expect Obama to take a risk and go really negative as he falls into a gripey, cranky mode...

Clarence Thomas On Affirmative Action Today...

Posted on September 09, 2008
It is not news that Clarence Thomas opposes affirmative action, but he does seem to be even more outspoken about it now. WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action...

?Diversity? vs. ?Artificial Communities? At UVA

Posted on September 08, 2008
Sometimes ?diversity? doublespeak is so extreme it?s a wonder the diversiphiles don?t choke on their words. They would be ashamed and embarrassed, I think, if they realized what they were saying, but of course they aren?t because they don?t. A good example is a recent decision by the University of Virginia to limit the housing choices available to incoming first year students, a decision dictated by the demands of ?diversity? since two of the first year dorms had developed unfortunate (which means accurate) racial ?stereotypes...

Obama, The Victim

Posted on September 08, 2008
Obama continues to complain that Republicans will try to make voters afraid of him with false and even ridiculous descriptions and accusations. Thus at a recent campaign appearance in Duryea, PA: ?I know that I?m not your typical presidential candidate,? Sen...

Liberals, Palin, And Quail (Not Quayle)

Posted on September 06, 2008
When I was a boy growing up in south Alabama the passion of my life was quail hunting. (And when I say quail, I mean the classic American bobwhite quail, of course.) It was, and I suppose still is, a sport characterized by ritual and clearly defined rules for all participants ? hunters, dogs, and birds...

Change, Small Change, Exchange?

Posted on September 05, 2008
Four days ago, half -way between Sarah Palin?s Friday debut as vice presidential nominee and her smashing Wednesday night address to the Republican Convention (and 37 million viewers), I wrote the following, in a post titled Change Who Can Believe In?: It seems to me that if Obama is elected change (or should that be Change!) will consist entirely of replacing Republicans with Democrats...

More Race Politics From the Un-Post-Racial Candidate

Posted on September 03, 2008
Jonah Goldberg reminds us that Obama supports the ?horrid? Akaka bill, which would create separate race-based governmental programs for those, as I pointed out here and elsewhere, ?with a drop of Hawaiian blood.? Peter Kirsanow of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has a good description of this bad bill, from last fall...

CNNsorship?

Posted on September 03, 2008
Gathering after the speeches last night by Lieberman and Thompson, the CNN ?political team? gathered to tell viewers what was wrong with what they said. No surprises there, except perhaps when Campbell Brown professed herself to be ?surprised by the political nature? of the Bushes? speeches...

Obamanut Predicts Race War If McCainWins

Posted on September 02, 2008
Fatimah Ali, who is described as ?a regular contributor? to the Philadelphia Daily News, writes today (HatTip To Drudge) that If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness ? and hopelessness! I would like to see this column distributed widely, since I believe it would impel many voters to support McCain just to deflate such pompous offensiveness.

Change Who Can Believe In?

Posted on September 01, 2008
It seems to me that if Obama is elected change (or should that be Change!) will consist entirely of replacing Republicans with Democrats. There?s nothing wrong with that, and if you?re a Democrat that?s probably all you want. But there?s nothing in Obama?s past (insofar as he has a past), in his campaign to date, or in his programatic acceptance speech to suggest there will be anything new or different about the nature of the Democratic agenda he will pursue...

Two Visions Of Equality

Posted on September 01, 2008
[NOTE: This post has been Updated] Here are the visions of equality contained in the new platforms of the Republican and Democratic parties. One of them is clear and principled; the other is gauzy, ambiguous, obfuscatory, and disingenuous. See if you can tell which is which...

Now We Can Have A Real Culture War!

Posted on August 31, 2008
Thank goodness for Maureen Dowd. If she didn?t exist, and the New York Times hadn?t found her, we?d have had to invent her in order to have a proper mouthpiece for the haughtily condescending, superior, superciliously snide view our bi-coastal betters have of us benighted (and if conservative, evil) middle Americans who live in small towns...

Abraham Obama

Posted on August 30, 2008
At the Democratic Convention Al Gore, never given to understatement, compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln. Gore praised Obama as a great orator with the power to inspire others, and suggested he shared the finest characteristics of another Illinois politician now generally considered to be America?s greatest president...

Is Obama ?Uppity??

Posted on August 30, 2008
One of the most dramatically ridiculous example of the ?race cards? played several weeks ago ? or, if you?re a Democrat, one of the most sensitive, perceptive, and erudite deconstructions and translations of evil, dirty, Republican racist code words ? came from all-around expert on everything (just ask him), David Gergen, former advisor to everyone...

Prof Charges UCLA Admissions Cheating, Resigns From Committee

Posted on August 29, 2008
On National Review?s phi beta cons blog, Robert VerBruggen points to a devastating 89 page report by political science professor Tim Groseclose criticizing admissions cheating by UCLA officials. I shall probably have more to say about this report once I?ve had time to read the whole thing...

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