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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.