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Discriminations

who? Discriminations is the joint production of John and Jessie Rosenberg. John is one of the world's older grad students, now completing a 30-year overdue dissertation at Stanford on discrimination. Jessie is a 16 year old junior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in physics.
\r\nwhat? John's focus, not surprisingly, will be on the theory and practice of discrimination, and how it is reported and analyzed.
\r\nJessie's will be discriminating thoughts on ... whatever catches her fancy or attracts her attention. (Email: jrosenbe@brynmawr.edu)

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 09:31:52

Will Cleans Fish

Posted on November 27, 2008
If you stay tuned, or check back later, you will discover that I am on the verge of doing something I don?t usually do: criticizing George Will. (Unusual, but not unheard of; see here.) Before getting to that post, however, I want to say in this one that one of the things we have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving day is ...

Veto-Proof Majority: Why?

Posted on November 23, 2008
According to this report, Democrats ?are pouring millions of dollars as we speak in Georgia to win this special election and elect the liberal Democratic candidate Jim Martin.? The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that Obama is keeping 25 of his Georgia field offices open for Martin, leaving most of his in-state paid staff on the ground here and importing about 100 field operatives from Southern states to help Martin, according to Matt Canter, a spokesman for Martin?s campaign...

The Revival Of Elian Gonzalez

Posted on November 22, 2008
Many observers have noted that Obama?s selection of Eric Holder as Attorney General and Greg Craig as White House Counsel has brought the deportation of young Elian Gonzalez to Cuba back into the news. Holder was deputy attorney general when federal agents broke down the door of Elian?s relatives in Miami and seized the boy at gunpoint...

?The Meaning Of Obama??

Posted on November 20, 2008
During the recent election the Right was often accused of waging a campaign of unmitigated hate against Obama. Whether hateful or not, I certainly posted a good deal of criticism of Obama here. Thus I thought it might be useful (even fair and balanced) to listen in for a moment on what the Left is saying...

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SAT Predicts Graduation Rates Better Than High School GPA

Posted on November 19, 2008
Peter Salins, provost of the State University of New York, the country?s largest comprehensive university system, from 1997 to 2006 and now a professor of political science at SUNY Stony Brook, argues in a compelling New York Times OpEd that the SAT predicts the likelihood of students to graduate within six years better than their high school grades...

The Misunderstanding Of Civil Rights At The Gretna Breeze

Posted on November 19, 2008
Gretna, Nebraska, a city of 2355 souls (in 2000) in Sarpy County, Nebraska, is the fastest growing city in Nebraska. Unfortunately, this growth in size does not seem to have been accompanied by a comparable growth in understanding civil rights at the Gretna Breeze...

Implicit Bias

Posted on November 18, 2008
As the evidence mounts that racial bias of whites has declined dramatically over recent decades, bias researchers (biased researchers?) have begun to emphasize a new research tool, the Implicit Association Test (I.A.T.), to argue that whites may no longer express biased beliefs and attitudes and may not think they?re biased but, deep down, they really are...

What?s The ?Difference??

Posted on November 16, 2008
Sometimes liberals like ?difference,? and sometimes they don?t. Insofar as ?diversity? provides a coherent justification for treating people differently based on their race or ethnicity, it is that we benefit from being exposed to people different from us...

Disproportionate Representation

Posted on November 16, 2008
The Greenlining Institute, according to its web site, is a multi-ethnic advocacy, research, leadership development, and public policy organization whose ultimate goal is to increase the role that low-income and minority Californians play in the civic arena in order to create equitable policies and improve quality of life for all communities...

Obama's "Potential" To Move Away From ?Stale? Affirmative Action

Posted on November 15, 2008
The Boston Globe editorializes tomorrow that Obama?s election creates the ?potential? for the nation to ?mov[e] away from stale notions of affirmative action.? The BG implies that Obama is ready to seize this potential, noting that Obama has said that his daughters, who are privileged, don?t deserve to benefit from it...

Colleges Must Want To Lose...

Posted on November 13, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports this morning that black college football coaches are increasing the pressure to hire more ... black college football coaches. The Black Coaches and Administrators organization turned up the heat on colleges today in an effort to increase minority hiring in big-time football programs...

A Guardedly Hopeful View Of Obama

Posted on November 13, 2008
I somehow missed Roger Clegg?s excellent OpEd in the New York Post last Friday appealing to the better angels of Obama?s nature, his political and legal astuteness, the words and logic of his speeches, and especially to his very identity in laying the foundation for hoping that the new administration will move away from racial preferences...

Affirmative Action Voting

Posted on November 11, 2008
Racial preference in college admissions, hiring, contracting, etc., is based on the assumption (or in many cases, a quasi-religious faith) that blacks and Hispanics cannot compete on equal terms with whites and Hispanics ? either because they are damaged goods, handicapped (or disabled, if you prefer the politically correct term) by centuries of racist oppression or because of current, ongoing racial discrimination...

Prescience ... Or Wishful Thinking?

Posted on November 10, 2008
Juan Williams, who often has thoughtful thinks to say, writes in the Wall Street Journal today that Obama?s election brings ?the end of an era for black politics.? he idea of black politics now tilts away from leadership based on voicing grievance, and identity politics based on victimization and anger...

Obamanation: A Small Collection Of Wise Comments

Posted on November 09, 2008
Following are some almost randomly collected comments on Obama?s election that I found of interest. You may want to check this post periodically, if this post interests you, since I?ll probably be adding to it as new pithy, or whatever, comments pop up...

Obama Derangement Syndrome

Posted on November 05, 2008
Barack Obama is an opposite of George Bush in many ways (one or two of them good), and so it should be no surprise that Obama Derangement Syndrome is an opposite of Bush Derangement Syndrome. People afflicted with BDS (mainly intellectuals, academics, journalists, etc...

Colorado, Nebraska Initiatives

Posted on November 04, 2008
Nov. 4, 11:10 P.M. According to the Omaha World-Telegram, ?Nebraska voters approved a constitutional amendment that would ban race- and gender-based affirmative action programs.? The vote total was not provided; I?ll add it later. A court challenge to the initiative is also still pending...

Is UCLA Cheating?

Posted on October 28, 2008
Californians amended their constitution in 1996 via Prop. 209, which provided that The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting...

Scion Of The Times: Elect Obama, Get Two Two-Fers ... Or Maybe An Asian ?Compromise?

Posted on October 27, 2008
According to this article in Sunday?s The Hill newspaper, the leading candidates to replace Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the Senate, should they be elected president and vice president, are Jessie Jackson?s son, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., and Joe Biden?s son, Beau Biden...

The Obama Question

Posted on October 26, 2008
Steve Chapman, the Chicago Tribune columnist, attended a large Obama rally in Indiana seeking an answer to the ?puzzle? of how a youngish first-term senator with so many disadvantages ? a slight resume, a foreign-sounding name, an exotic background, a professorial manner, a thoroughly liberal voting record, and a skin color unlike any previous president ? has come so far, and even leads in national polls with less than two weeks to go? And he found it...

Why Virginia May Be Turning Blue

Posted on October 24, 2008
If Virginia turns blue, at least part of the reason may be what Hans Bader reports: In Virginia?s liberal Fairfax County, officials are illegally discarding absentee ballots cast by members of the military based on a technical requirement that is preempted by federal law...

Why Should Fulbright Scholars Be ?Diverse??

Posted on October 24, 2008
The U.S. Department of State, according to this recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, ?has been concerned in recent years about the lack of diversity among American applicants.? This year, for example, only seven of the nearly 760 American scholars come from community colleges, and only 10...

Fat Cat Democrats

Posted on October 22, 2008
If McCain, like Obama, had broken his promise and opted to avoid the public campaign financing that he foisted upon us and had raised a fraction of the cast Obama has raised, there would be loud chorus of ?Obscene!? emanating from the mainstream press...

Speaking In Code

Posted on October 22, 2008
Ever since the United States divided into Red and Blue states, it has been common to observe that increasingly Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives, are more like tribes belonging to different cultures than simple partisan or ideological groupings...

Will The Real Obama Please Stand Up? (Is There A Real Obama?)

Posted on October 20, 2008
Mickey Kaus recently wrote:If (like me) you want to feel better about Barack Obama, try reading conservative Bradford Berenson's Frontline comments on Obama's performance at the Harvard Law Review. Berenson was a conservative member of the Review, and his comments portrayed Obama as ?an honest broker,? as someone who did ?not let ideology or politics blind him to the enduring institutional interests of the Review...

Obama Set ?To Change The World?

Posted on October 18, 2008
With the modesty and self-deprecating humor for which he has become known, Barack Obama told a crowd of adoring acolytes in New Hampshire today that ?we're going to change the country and change the world.? Perhaps as evidence of Obama?s trans-national vision and ambition, the national anthem and pledge of allegiance were scratched from the rally?s program...

Lack Of Diversity In Newsrooms

Posted on October 18, 2008
To be sure, racial and ethnic minorities and women tend to be well-represented in newsrooms, but look at the large, prominent portion of the population that is not there. (HatTip to InstaPundit)

Alabama: More Voters Than Voting Age Residents In Six Counties

Posted on October 17, 2008
From the front page of today?s Birmingham News: MONTGOMERY - Six Alabama counties have more people on their voting rolls than they do people of voting age, according to voter registration numbers and U.S. Census Bureau estimates. The curious statistic could be the result of a surge in new registrations added to voter rolls that have not been purged of people who moved, said local election officials...

ACORN And Other Democratic Nuts

Posted on October 17, 2008
In response to the growing criticism of ACORN and its policy of hiring people who submit what appear to be thousands of fraudulent voter registrations, the Dems have hauled out their quadrennial perennial: that opposition to voting fraud is itself voting fraud...

More Obamanaut Lessons In Civil Liberties

Posted on October 16, 2008
Back in the McCarthite days when ?guilt by association? was real ? unlike now, when it is a partisan slur hurled at Republicans who dare to question Obama?s choices of friends, associates, mentors ? the practice by which the guilty party?s associations were exposed was universally known as naming names...

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