Forgetting The Goal
The mountains of mockery heaped upon Elizabeth Warren for her tin-ear revelation of her DNA-tested proof that she does, indeed, have a few micrograms of Native American heritage have reopened, at least in some circles, discussion of affirmative action and diversity....
Pocahontas Warren And The Diversity Game
Senator Elizabeth Warren, obviously laying groundwork for a Presidential run, released DNA test results that support her long-standing assertion that she has some Native American in her lineage. Warren has been under considerable pressure to do so, especially from...
Genetic Sin
I came across another one of those "old white slaveowners" dismissal of the Constitution and originalism (the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted as it was written, not as justices of today feel) the other day. The usual rebuttal of such an "argument," if...
When Lawyers Define Sex Roles
In history, have more brains ever been more racked over anything less knowable than in analyzing the recollections of the teens Ford and Kavanaugh from back in 1982? (The Dreyfus Affair, maybe). Have more media ever before been spilled over less content? Now that the...
Government Of, By, and For The Bureaucrats
Have you ever received one of those class action notifications in the mail? The sort that says you may be eligible for compensation because some Big Company allegedly wronged you and thousands of others? The sort where you end up with eleven dollars and thirty-four...
Pimping “Democracy”
Pay attention to the news and opinion you see, hear, and read these days, especially that of a liberal bent. Pay attention to the words they use, and see how often you are fed the word "democracy." I've noticed it quite a bit of late, especially surrounding and in the...
Will Progressivism Kill Universities?
As the Kavanaugh confirmation saga nears its end, some news out of Harvard raises an interesting question. The fabled university, either under pressure from activist students or of its own volition, announced that Kavanaugh won't be returning to teach a course he's...
Time Enough For… What?
As the FBI prepares to present its findings in the Kavanaugh matter to Congress today, the grumblings of insufficient depth of investigation grow ever louder. Last week, even as his accusers' stories started to unravel or fall apart entirely, Trump and the GOP agreed...
Lessons From The Ghost Dance War
The Ghost Dance War was an armed conflict in the United States between the Lakota Sioux and the United States government from 1890 until 1891. It involved the Wounded Knee Massacre wherein the 7th Cavalry massacred around 300 Lakota Sioux, including women, children,...
The Wrong Indoctrination
*Editor's Note: This is a follow-up to Losing Americana, and part of a series on the "real" greatness of America. A political friend recently shared the observation: Indoctrination is a necessary evil to keep societies from being torn apart. It's an interesting choice...
Losing Americana
I'm a semi-closeted fan of Antiques Road Show. I rarely have reason to talk about it, and don't typically plan my schedule to view it, but if I'm channel surfing in the evenings (that's showing my age - do young people even know of channel surfing?), I will always...
Flushing The Constitution
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) asserted that Brett Kavanaugh's accusers "need to be heard, they need to be believed." When Jake Tapper followed up with a question as to whether Kavanaugh himself deserved the presumption of innocence, she responded: I put his denial in...
Hand Jiving With Nike And The NFL
Metaphors are seeds for a hopeful blossoming of greater truth. Otherwise, true stories would be nothing but encyclopedic recitation. Is the Bible undone because we know the world was not made in six days? Both sides of our arrayed partisan battle lines have the seeds...
Politicizing Pension Funds
A recent New York Post article about the appearance of corruption (or cronyism, you decide) in the state's pension fund included a funny little nugget. The story, about Vicki Fuller, who was the funds chief investment officer and who landed a $275K per year part-time...
By Any Means Necessary
The attempted borking of Judge Kavanaugh proceeds apace, with his accuser set to testify on Thursday. Kavanaugh, a man of impeccable credentials and heretofore unassailed character, is being accused of an attempted rape nearly four decades ago, when he was 17, and of...
Trump, The Lesser Evil?
The day after the 2016 presidential election, I dubbed our then-President-Elect an "untethered id" (and sarcastically tagged on the adjective "orange" a few weeks later). Yesterday, the New York Times dropped an anonymous op-ed that, if it is to be believed, validated...
Kaepernick, Nike, and The Economics of Virtue-Signaling
They say timing is everything, and they say there's no such thing as bad publicity. We get to see this put to the test this week, as Nike dives into the deep end of the controversy pool by adding Colin Kaepernick to its fall advertising campaign. Kaepernick appears at...
The Scarcest Resource
Ever miss an exit on the highway? Doesn't it seem that the few minutes it takes to go to the next exit, cross over, find the on-ramp in the other direction, and get back to where you should have turned off in the first place seems like an eternity? Not just an...
Breeding Belligerence
I had an interesting "conversation" a few weeks, in a conservative political group that has coalesced/cohered into a solidly pro-Trump faction. One poster put forth a statement along the lines of "if a NeverTrumper hasn't figured out that we were right in supporting...
The Two McCains
I suppose it was inevitable that political controversy would accompany the death of Senator John McCain. Even excluding the sloppy, inartful, but "why are you surprised" White House flag-lowering bit, news and social media outlets are awash in people yelling at each...
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