[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Whodda thunk, the Nuremberg Laws are lurking right there in the manifold penumbrae of our good ol' Constitution? BTW, the ABC radio reporter mentioned that Maddox was named Governor by the overwhelmingly Democratic Georgia assembly.

[txzman]

Liberal Facism at its finest. Yet try to point out the inconsistencies in the way liberals behave and they go ballistic - "what, moi?"

That's why Ann Coulter's books hit such a raw nerve - the truth is painfull.

[Noachian]

You want to see diversity in action? Go to India.

[joonbug]

Nobody says it better than Steyn!

[joebuck]

Another home run by Mark Steyn, who once again shows why he his the best columnist in the world today.

[Congressman Billybob]

As usual, a fine piece of work by Mr. Steyn. In a day or so I'll finish a detailed write-up of the two Michigan cases for a legal website. I'll link that for those Freepers who want 18 pages of legal twaddle, but I personally recommend Steyn's analysis as shorter, and funnier.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, now up FR, "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."

[CholeraJoe]

*Steyn ping.

[tahiti]

''diversity'' makes a poor legal concept

That is with out question, but "compelling state interest" is infinitely worse and more destructive to liberty as a legal concept than "diversity."

Close behind as a liberty denying and disparaging legal concept is the phrase "public safety" when used by your governments as justification for denying and disparaging your rights.

[savedbygrace]

''Diversity'' means ''more blacks.'' That's why traditional African-American colleges are exempt from its strictures: As 100 percent black schools, they're already as diverse as you can get.

This is my favorite part. With this column, Steyn hits another one "to da moon."

[pyx]

This column was very well written. I agree with his arguments.

[dead]

As 100 percent black schools, they're already as diverse as you can get.

Always brilliant.

[mc5cents]

''Diversity'' doesn't extend to, say, some dirtpoor piece of fundamentalist white trash. Her presence wouldn't ''enrich'' anyone. ''Diversity'' means ''more blacks.'' That's why traditional African-American colleges are exempt from its strictures: As 100 percent black schools, they're already as diverse as you can get.

Ding ding ding ding WE HAVE A WINNER.

[Gritty]

Steyn hits the bullseye, as usual!

[Madame Dufarge]

As Swingin' Sandra put it, approvingly, the Law School (like Sandra) ''engages in a highly individualized, holistic review . . . flexible, non-mechanical . . . soft variable . . . nuanced judgment . . . potential to enrich . . .'' Zzzzzzzz.

The more I see of O'Connor, the more I'm convinced she's just a publicity whore.

The official iconoclast, principle be damned.

[WarrenC]

...How dare that uppity nigra be so ungrateful to Massa Sulzberger and all the fine ladies up at the big house who got him into the nice Liberal Guilt Academy for the Exotically Disadvantaged! ''It's poignant, really,'' sighs Maureen. ''It makes him crazy that people think he is where he is because of his race, but he is where he is because of his race.''

A week or so ago, I read this Maureen Dowd column and "uppity" is exactly the word that came to mind as the word liberals must think when they read Thomas's opinions.

[epow]

Last week the USSC finally confirmed what most of us have known for decades, the Constitution is nothing more than an irrelevant scrap of yellowed paper and dried ink. I move we just stop the charade and have a public ceremony to burn it and finally end the transparent pretense that it has any meaningful role in our system of governance.

Kennedy's open admission that something as ephemeral and transitory as public opinion carries much of the weight in the court's decisions is at least an honest confession. Thirty years ago the high court had to make the most torturous mental contortions imaginable in trying to justify Roe on constitutional grounds, but now this court apparently believes the American people have become sufficiently ignorant of the Constitutional-Republic form of government to accept "emerging" public opinion as a legitimate basis for the court's decisions.

As of last week all state and local legislative bodies are superficial and unnecessary. Congress itself is now nothing more than an expensive debating society and enrichment program for rich politicians. The USSC has in effect appointed itself as the supra-legislative body of the US, and any legislation which conflicts, not with the Constitution but with the court's philosophy of governance and it's evaluation of "emerging" public opinion, is dead on arrival and not worth the paper on which it is written.

What does the Constitution say about the right to keep and bear arms? Doesn't matter anymore, it only matters how five justices feel about the matter, and of course, on the "emerging" popular opinion of the masses. What about the right to be secure in one's person, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable search and seizure? Same thing, five enlightened justices will decide the issue based on their own philosophy and on "emerging" popular opinion, and without all the bothersome fuss over Constitutional restraints on government's power. It is certainly simpler that way, but even simpler if we just appointed a dictator for life. Oh wait, no need for that, we have nine of them now.

Some of us have known it for decades, but now it's official. The US government has become in essense just an oligarchy of nine unelected, untouchable, appointed for life, "enlightened ones". Those nine people have far more unchallengeable authority over our lives than King George had over the lives of the Colonials.

[Cordova Belle]

Thanks for the ping. I read Dowd's column on Thomas---
the word "shocking" has been so over-used as to be rendered almost meaningless, but that's what it was
---a shocking put-down by a white woman who seemed to be saying to a black man that he "ought to know his place." Outrageous.

[freekitty]

Racial profiling for anybody is bad enough; but do the members of the Supreme Court realize they have let child molesters run loose? This is horrible.

[AnnaZ]

Usually a Steyn column is so good it requires a cigarette at the end of the reading. This one, however, is smokin' all by itself.

 

(Heart. Be. Still.  ;^)

 

 

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[gitmo]

...How dare that uppity nigra be so ungrateful to Massa Sulzberger and all the fine ladies up at the big house who got him into the nice Liberal Guilt Academy for the Exotically Disadvantaged! ''It's poignant, really,'' sighs Maureen. ''It makes him crazy that people think he is where he is because of his race, but he is where he is because of his race.''

[billbears]

Lester Maddox, Georgia's last segregationist governor and a white restaurateur who closed his business rather than be forced to serve blacks, died last week, and neither ABC, CBS nor NBC could bring themselves to tell viewers that this man was (gasp!) a Democrat

Actually enjoyed the article until right here. From hearing other Freepers and from what I've read Lester Maddox was a good man. His views at the time might not be PC today, and ignore the fact that the real story has been rewritten, but he was a good man nonetheless