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Is Obama A Muslim?

One of the reasons the New Yorker cover showing fist-bumping Obamas in Muslim garb caused such a ruckus is that its appearance coincided with the release of a Pew Research Center report showing that...

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Does McCain Want To Win?

You’d think any presidential candidate wants to win — otherwise, why go to the trouble? — but McCain’s continuing failure to come out forcefully for colorblind equality suggests, at least to me, that...

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The Best Reason To Support Obama?

Bonnie Erbe, a U.S. News and World Report columnist who claims to have covered Washington politics “since God was a baby,” argues that Obama’s election “would kill affirmative action.” What could do...

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Some Good News For Liberals

In the past week or so Obamaphiles have been dismayed to see their messiah’s candidate’s lead in the polls diminish dramatically. (See Rasmussen daily tracking polls here.) Most observers...

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Depressing Poll (And Pollsters) On Racial Divide

The most recent CBS/New York Times poll on the racial divide in the U.S. (actually, more like a chasm) is depressing, as is the NYT’s article about the poll.You’ll need to read the article/poll for...

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The Declining Reputation Of Affirmative Action

Missouri, you will recall, is the state where obstructionism by the Democratic Secretary of State and Attorney General, later declared illegal, and thuggish intimidation of petition signers succeeded...

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Princeton Receives Weekly Chutzpah Award

“What weekly chutzpah award?” you may well ask. You’re right. At the moment DISCRIMINATIONS doesn’t bestow a weekly chutzpah award, but if it did this week’s would go to Princeton.Regular readers...

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Rocky Mountain Non-News

The Rocky Mountain News more often than not gets things right. Yesterday, however, it did not.Here is the piece in its entirety: Initiative backers plan to file complaintOrganizers of an...

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Bader Late Than Never

Some readers may have noticed (and even cheered) the drop in my blog posting (blog output? blogput?) for the past ten days or so. We’re in California for a while, house-sitting in San Francisco,...

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July 4th, Revisited

July 4th is a holiday for all Americans, of whatever persuasion, to celebrate America, but we live in a time when Left and Right increasingly view each other as un-American. Like many others on the...

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