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Many years ago, I learned of an episode in the life of a promising young black man that is relevant to things happening now. He had been educated at a good school, and went on to receive degrees at good colleges and universities. Then he went for a Ph.D. in mathematics at one of the leading departments in that field. When he encountered difficulties, his professors essentially wrote his doctoral thesis for him. No doubt they felt good about doing something to help a promising young black man, and perhaps took pride in doing so. But what about his pride?...

The Knesset's Aliyah and Absorption Committee held session at the southern city of Kiryat Malachi Sunday, following reports of racism against Ethiopians who live there. The press recently reported that residents of a neighborhood there had decided not to allow Ethiopian Jews to move into it. Other press reports showed racism against Ethiopian Jews in Mevaseret Tzion, near Jerusalem, where some non-Ethiopian parents reportedly refuse to send their children to kindergartens that take in Ethiopian children. "I stand here as a representative of the Knesset, and I am full of shame," said Committee Chairman MK Danny Danon (Likud). "I did...

“The Undefeated”......Defeated. Ok, ok.......NOW she’s a quitter. Back when Govenor Palin resigned as Alaska’s “Grizzly in Chief” after a judicial assult compiled of several lawsuits against her, Palin fans were relieved, because she did not need to be put needlessly through the media and judicial ringer any more, because she was needed later for a larger calling; to defeat Obama in the election of 2012. Resignation was not seen as “quitting”, it was a strategic, maneuver, a rope-a-dope, around the anti-Palin crowd....she wasn’t quitting, she was “outflanking”. Well, Palin did indeed have a clear message last night when she announced...

Late Thursday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that next year’s Playmate of the Year will be former White House press corps member Helen Thomas. The EEOC declared this its latestvictory in a never-ending quest for equality in the workplace. In a related story, shortly after the EEOC announcement, Hugh Hefner, 96, founder of Playboy Enterprises, died of a massive heart attack in his Los Angeles mansion. Uh, just kidding. I’m merely demonstrating that when we take social engineering to its logical conclusion, we get illogical results.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Minneapolis mother is looking for the public’s help in finding a mob of teenage girls that she says assaulted her family. The attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Folwell Park on Minneapolis’ north side. Shawnee Twiet says she was in and out of consciousness when the attack happened. “As soon as I hit the ground, I just started feeling just everything coming from everywhere,” Twiet said. “I mean blows coming from the back of my head. I felt somebody grabbing the back of my hair.” She suffered a black eye, bruises all over her body and imprints...

SEWELL, New Jersey-Mary Kay Coyne has just filed what she says is her 1,862nd job application since being thrown out of work three years ago. She is one of millions of Americans whose unemployment benefits have expired -- after 99 weeks in many states -- as the United States suffers its highest level of long-term unemployment since 1948. Coyne had to move in with a friend after benefit payments ran out last year. Now she gets by on Medicaid -- U.S. health insurance for the poor -- and food stamps, contributing what little she can to her friend's household costs....

Clark County commissioners approved Tuesday the payment of $150,000 to settle a lawsuit by a former University Medical Center data technician diagnosed with claustrophobia, a condition that arose when she was forced to work in a cubicle. Jayne Feshold was a data technician hired by the county-run hospital in 1999. Her suit says she "worked without incident" until May 2007. Then the hospital's medical records department was moved to a new building and she was assigned to work in an area "consisting of a small cubicle workspace instead of a more open environment."

Former half-term Gov. Sarah Palin has reportedly packed in her bus tour...halfway through. Real Clear Politics is reporting that Palin and her family have returned to Alaska from their "One Nation" bus tour, despite tentatively scheduled stops in Iowa and South Carolina. From Scott Conroy at RCP: Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have...

First, let us start with a definition of a tech bubble.A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. It is accompanied by the rationalisation of the new pricing, and then followed by a spectacular crash in value. (It also has the “smart money� investing early and taking profits before the crash.)Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania, South Sea Company, Mississippi Company, etc.). And in the last decade, we have had the dot.com bust and...

DURHAM, N.C. — President Barack Obama promoted job creation in politically important North Carolina Monday, trying to assure Americans he's focused on their No. 1 concern — and his greatest political weakness — as his potential GOP presidential opponents prepared to target his economic policies in their first major debate. [snip] "I am optimistic about our future," the president said, even while acknowledging that "we can't be complacent." Obama announced details of a program to train 10,000 new American engineers every year, saying private companies will join the government to promote education in science, technology, engineering and math. They'll offer...

Professor Bruce Fleming is not your typical US Naval Academy (USNA) Professor. He teaches English and he also happens to be a liberal. I’ve written favorably in my books about his work because he also happens to believe in speaking the truth. And by speaking the truth about the dirty secrets of affirmative action at the Naval Academy, he has set off a fire storm. Fleming wrote a piece last year exposing the fact that the USNA had a “two-tiered” system of admission that was designed to bring more minorities into the academy. (Since access to the full article has...

This week, I held a bake sale -- a racist bake sale. I stood in midtown Manhattan shouting, "Cupcakes for sale." My price list read: Asians -- $1.50 Whites -- $1.00 Blacks/Latinos -- 50 cents People stared. One yelled, "What is funny to you about people who are less privileged?" A black woman said, angrily, "It's very offensive, very demeaning!" One black man accused me of poisoning the cupcakes. I understand why people got angry. What I did was hurtful to some. My bake sale mimicked what some conservative college students did at Bucknell University. The students wanted to satirize...

Michelle Obama thinks being America’s First Lady is ‘hell’, Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet new book. Miss Bruni reveals that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’ Details of the private conversation, which took place at the White House during an official visit by Nicolas Sarkozy last March, emerged in Carla And The Ambitious, a book written in collaboration with Miss Bruni.

Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state. In addition, the records indicate the number was issued between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama's earliest employment reportedly was in 1975 at a Baskin & Robbins ice cream shop in Oahu, Hawaii. WND has copies of affidavits filed separately in a presidential eligibility lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia by Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels and Colorado private...

KDKA is reporting that an indictment will be forthcoming for Pennsylvania State Sen. Jane Orie (R-40), who is that body's majority whip and the sister of state Supreme Court Judge Joan Orie Melvin.

Only a few decades ago, the United States was the world’s largest creditor nation. American capital spanned the globe financing all types of investments in virtually every country. But that dominance began to erode in the 1960s because growth in consumption in the United States was starting to outpace new production. Wealth built up over generations was being consumed. To compensate for the resulting decline in living standards, the nation turned to debt, rather than hard work and savings. This trend continued through the next decade. A focus on consumption and a seemingly unstoppable reliance on debt at all levels...

The military investigation into the Ft. Hood terrorist attack has concluded that Major Nidal Malik Hasan was allowed to regularly violate his oath and openly promote subversive Islamic extremism since 2005...to protect "diversity."

I know that prejudice still exists. I know that in some communities racism still exists. But, I do think that our country has made incredible strides to rid our country of both. I am not trying to say that past actions by so many were not reprehensible, they certainly were. But I wonder, why is reverse discrimination still ok? In other words, if we truly want to eliminate discrimination or racism, why do we allow preferential policies that favor historically-discriminated groups? We are told over and over, in school, in the media, in daily conversation that prejudice is wrong, that...

With a Black President soon to be in the White House, it's time to repeal Affirmative Action. How can you blame "the man" when you now ARE "the man"? Time has proven that we no longer need AA in America.

Upon hearing that Obama won, I reconciled that God is in control. He didn't awaken and say, “Oops, I didn't mean to allow that to happen”. Thus, I am at peace and KNOW that ALL IS WELL. A HUGE opportunity has been laid before us to promote and advance conservatism. My heart goes out to my deeply hurt and fearful fellow Americans whom I met and bonded with while on the national “Our Country Deserves Better” Stop Obama tour. They are the heartland folks with traditional values; God, family and country. Obama calls them racists, naïve for their faith in...

AFFIRMATIVE REACTION.. THE ENTITLEMENT SHOWDOWN.. Coming home to roost.. Oh Boy.. Buckle up folks.. This is going to be a bumpy ride... The showdown between the most crucial voting blocks within the Democrat Party, Blacks and Women, are facing down one another in this historic election cycle..  More than a few key strategist huddling deep within the Obama's inner sanctum, would say the divisions between these narcissistic behemoths have already reached a critical mass, threatening not just this election, but the ultimate future of the Democrat Party.. Which carefully crafted victim/entitlement block, will be ceremoniously dumped at this convention, and...

Would a white candidate be in Barack Obama's position, poised to win the Democrat nomination, if he or she were friendly with a former white supremacist that blew up black churches in the 60's? Would a white candidate still have a political career if it were found that he or she attended a "white power" church for twenty years? Would a white candidate be given the benefit of doubt if he or she said, "it's not surprising that black people turn to crime and drugs because they are bitter." Barack Obama may win the Presidency because he is the beneficiary...

LINCOLN, Neb. - A petition filed with Secretary of State John Gale all but guarantees Nebraska will be an affirmative-action battleground heading into the November 2008 election. Public institutions including colleges and universities would be barred from using race, sex and other factors in hiring and admissions decisions under the proposed constitutional amendment. The petition drive will be guided by a California-based group that has been successful squashing affirmative action in other states. Ward Connerly, a former University of California regent best known for dismantling state programs that gave preferences to minorities, is behind the petition. It would give Nebraska...

...This is not a hypothetical question. The schools involved are dozens of law schools in California and elsewhere, and the program is the system of affirmative action that enables hundreds of minority law students to attend more elite institutions than their credentials alone would allow. Data from across the country suggest to some researchers that when law students attend schools where their credentials (including LSAT scores and college grades) are much lower than the median at the school, they actually learn less, are less likely to graduate and are nearly twice as likely to fail the bar exam than they...

Have racial preferences reduced the number of black lawyers? Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative action--and indeed, among those who were not. Easily the most startling conclusion of his research: Mr. Sander calculated that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions--about 7.9% fewer by his reckoning. He identified the culprit...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - After years of affirmative action to correct racial inequalities left by decades of apartheid, management of the South African economy remains largely in white hands, a report said Tuesday. Corporate compliance with equity legislation was at an "all-time low," the Business Day newspaper quoted a government commission as saying. Black people were largely consigned to support functions in areas like human resources, corporate affairs and government liaison, according to a report by the Commission for Employment Equity. "The pace of transformation has been painfully slow," commission chairman Jimmy Manyi was reported as saying. The number of blacks...

Spending at least $1.6 million in taxpayer funds on professional artwork instead of building or repairing city schools is raising questions about the school district's spending decisions. Spending bond money on art is not illegal but unusual. School officials in Chicago, Philadelphia and other large cities say they don't spend large sums on art for their schools... Most of the Detroit art was purchased under former schools chief Kenneth Burnley, but the payments continued after William Coleman was named superintendent in July 2005. It's unclear how many art pieces were bought. The money was a sliver of the $1.5 billion...

Michigan's three top-tier universities will be able to continue their current admissions and financial aid policies through the end of the current cycle, a federal judge decided Tuesday. Under a ballot measure passed by state voters on Nov. 7, public universities and governments no longer can use race and gender in admissions and hiring starting Saturday. U.S. District Judge David Lawson signed a motion filed by the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University seeking more time to implement some of those changes because they've already begun accepting new students for admission next fall.

PULLMAN – Moments before Washington State University announced the hiring of its 10th president Wednesday, many WSU leaders had yet to even shake hands with Elson S. Floyd.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- White men dominate the leadership positions in college sports, a new study says, with women and minorities making only slow progress moving into the top jobs. Athletic directors, conference commissioners and university presidents overwhelmingly are white, the study released Wednesday by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport found.

...Yet Susannah A. Baruch and colleagues at the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University recently surveyed 190 American P.G.D. clinics, and found that 3 percent reported having intentionally used P.G.D. “to select an embryo for the presence of a disability.” In other words, some parents had the painful and expensive fertility procedure for the express purpose of having children with a defective gene. It turns out that some mothers and fathers don’t view certain genetic conditions as disabilities but as a way to enter into a rich, shared culture.

Data Found In Drug Raid Contains Weapons-Design Secrets. The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons, officials tell CBS News. Officials say there is no evidence the information taken from Los Alamos was sold or transferred to anybody else, but there is no way to be sure right now. As CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson was the first to report, secret documents apparently taken from the lab were found during a drug raid at a...

OSLO, Jan. 8 - On the first day of this year - and in the teeth of strenuous opposition from many Norwegian businessmen - Norway's leftist government put into effect one of the more radical attempts to achieve sexual equality: requiring that in the next two years 40 percent of the board members of the nation's large, publicly traded private companies be women. "The government's decision is to see to it that women will have a place where the power is, where leadership takes place in this society," Karita Bekkemellem, Norway's minister of children and equality, said in an interview...

PARIS - As the rioting that has engulfed squalid, mostly North African immigrant neighborhoods subsides, France finds itself facing an even greater challenge: addressing inequality. But while embracing diversity, President Jacques Chirac and other government leaders have rejected quotas as a tool for affirmative action, viewed by many in France as a dangerous American idea that creates social distortions. Nearly three weeks of unrest have jolted France from its dream of living in a colorblind, egalitarian society and forced leaders and intellectuals to grapple with the marginalization of the country's predominantly Muslim North African minorities. The debate has resonance across...

Wachovia to pay reparations for slavery? I’m afraid that I have finally had it with the entire topic of slave reparations and the level of groveling to which corporate America has sunk, and I am closing all Wachovia accounts. Am I a crazy, southern, white supremacist? Hardly. I am, in fact, as northern and schooled in liberal philosophies as they come. I used to play in the tunnels (although they weren’t so much tunnels that connected to anything as they were just large dug out hiding areas) under my grandmother’s house and take great pride that our family in past...

This piece admirably discusses the fact that women now outnumber men in obtaining bachelor degrees (although men have a major upperhand in mathematics and hard-sciences). So when asked whether universities should consider "affirmative action" for male applicants, a university spokesman said: "Women have worked so hard to get to this point...I think universities will have hard time supplanting well-qualified women to give a place to less-qualified, less-motivated male applicants."What??? When it comes to male affirmative action, a Liberal suddenly equates "Affirmative Action" with QUOTAS!!! This is why it is a waste of time talking to DU-types. When the circumstances change...

"The key to increasing minority enrollment," the Post editorializes, "lies partly in intelligent affirmative action programs; partly in awarding tuition aid on need, not merit." In other words, lower standards for black students and more money for kids who meet those lower standards. Yeah, that's how you encourage higher academic achievement — demand less of it! And pay more for those who don't make the grade! How can any sentient, rational being — white, black or otherwise — write that sentence? How blind do you have to be? How utterly clueless about people, about human nature, about life itself?

The black alumni of Harvard are unhappy with the university's affirmative action program. It helps blacks—but the wrong ones. The New York Times says that there are 520 black Harvard undergraduates (8% of the total), but "the majority of them—perhaps as many as two-thirds— [are] West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples." That leaves "only about a third of the students…from families in which all four grandparents were born in this country, descendants of slaves." It's a sensitive topic for Harvard, other elite colleges, and defenders of affirmative action. (So...

Among contemporary economists and social theorists, one of the most prolific, intellectually independent, and iconoclastic is Thomas Sowell, now a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. In nearly a half-century’s worth of books and essays, he has explored the cultures of the world and all the nooks and crannies of American society. Enormously learned, wonderfully clear-headed, he sees reality as it is, and flinches at no truth. Affirmative Action Around the World is exactly what its title announces: an empirical study of what the consequences really are, and really have been, in the five major nations in which "affirmative action"—the...

The University of Rochester College Republicans are finally having their AA Bake Sale this Fri the 19th. For any of you in the area, it'll be at 12:00 at the entrance of Wilson Commons. We'll be selling a few different kinds of cookies although that is obviously not the point. Prices start at $1.50 for Asians, a $1.00 for whites and so on (we're still working on that though). We're keeping this as low key as possible until we start as we don't want the liberal groups on campus to have a prepared protest. The location is right where most...

After the administration shut down an affirmative action bake sale put on by a libertarian group on campus, the liberals rallied around a pro-affirmative action 'forum' headed by sociologists and no opposition voices. VP for Student Affairs Sam Sadler stated that he would work to create a balanced forum to discuss affirmative action this semester. Instead, this is what we get: another indoctrination with only the liberals having their say. Press release by W&M: http://web.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=3458 In the interest of thwarting liberal bias, are there any freepers who can make come here this Thursday, March 18 at 7 pm to protest...

<p>National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she supports "soft affirmative action," but that it should never be associated with "lower expectations" or "lower standards" for blacks and women.</p> <p>"When people assume blacks or women are less capable, and, therefore say, 'lower the standards,' that's the killer. It's the worst thing you can do to anyone," Miss Rice, who is black, said in a lengthy television interview on Armstrong Williams' show "On Point."</p>

<p>Seven months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the University of Michigan's undergraduate affirmative action policy, the number of applications from blacks, Hispanics and American Indians is down 23 percent from the same time last year. And the number of those admitted is down 30 percent.</p>

Victory for Free Speech at William & Mary WILLIAMSBURG, VA— After pressure from and public exposure by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the College of William & Mary (W&M) has reversed course and allowed an "affirmative action bake sale" to proceed without interference. A student group, the Sons of Liberty, saw its satirical protest unlawfully halted by W&M in November; it was one of many such protests nationwide that were shut down on campuses this past fall. While W&M allowed the group's bake sale to proceed without incident this time, W&M President Timothy J. Sullivan issued a...

SEATTLE - Campus bake sales by conservatives who oppose affirmative-action are cooking up discord — and complaints about restrictions on free speech. Organizers charge white students $1 for a cookie, while blacks and other minorities pay 25 to 95 cents. Doughnuts are available for 50 cents to everyone except Asian Americans and whites, who cannot purchase them. Unfair? So is affirmative action, organizers contend. "It's a good example of what affirmative action does, judging people based on race," said Jason Chambers, president of the University of Washington College Republicans, which held a sale in October that shut down when some...

Senate Democratic staffers and a judge appointed by President Carter made extraordinary efforts last year to ensure that a liberal majority sat on the federal appeals court that heard the Michigan affirmative action cases, according to internal Democratic staff memos.

<p>BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- A woman said she repeatedly gave investigators the name of serial killings suspect Derrick Todd Lee during the months that three women were murdered, but she was ignored.</p> <p>Collette Dwyer, a firefighter, said authorities ignored her tip because Lee is black and police said they were looking for a white man.</p>

In the frenzy over Rush Limbaugh's comments on ESPN, it's easy to overlook one very significant thing. Namely, that such an incident was brewing for some time. It just took a lightning-rod like Limbaugh to ignite it. Indeed, the episode was merely a symptom of an underlying cause. To put things in perspective: Not long ago, before the plague of political correctness engulfed our society, professional sports (unlike collegiate sports, which has been ravaged by the egregious interpretation of Title IX) stood out as perhaps a final bastion of sanity. For all its well-documented faults, big-league sports epitomized a wonderful...

For distribution, pls. “The [CA] Attorney General’s glaring omission of this exemption could be very misleading to the voters,” commented Ward Connerly, chairman of the Yes on Prop 54 campaign. Who is the Attorney General? Mr. D-Bill Lockyer. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/sc20010607.shtml Though Lay has not been convicted of any crime, Bill Lockyer says, "I would love to personally escort Lay to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, 'Hi, my name is Spike, honey.'" But on the subject of CA's mysterious "bookkeeping practices" throughout the educational and government bodies, and of course, the significant omission from...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Dave Crater, 719-532-0546, crater@daveschultheis.com August 11, 2003 Rep. Dave Schultheis Applauds Owens, Jones on Affirmative Action Colorado State Rep. Dave Schultheis (R-Colorado Springs) today applauded Gov. Bill Owens and state Sen. Ed Jones in their opposition to race-based admissions criteria in Colorado colleges and universities. “I am optimistic that we will be able to address this issue in the 2004 legislative session,” Schultheis said. “Gov. Owens hit the nail on the head. It’s racial discrimination to say a child should get a head start because of his or her race.” The Colorado Commission on Higher Education...