Doublethink v. SCOTUS
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a 6-2 margin that the 2006 Michigan voter-initiated ban on racial preferences in college admission was constitutional. Superficially, the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend ...
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a 6-2 margin that the 2006 Michigan voter-initiated ban on racial preferences in college admission was constitutional. Superficially, the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend ...
"I WANT TO BELIEVE," announces The X-Files" Agent Mulder, although silently, via that austere poster on the wall of his dark basement FBI office. It's a declaration of defiance; Mulder was exiled to his ...
Last Christmas Day, a drone missile flew into the Pakistani village of Qutab Khel and killed four suspected militants. Their identities couldn"t be confirmed because their bodies were reduced to charred remains. The ...
The Week's Most Steroidal, Negroidal, and Hemorrhoidal Headlines WHITE MEN, WRONG WORDS Two elderly white men got in trouble last week for making the sort of comments that people who hate elderly white men expect them to ...
Yesterday a young woman who was unknown to me except at third hand died. She was the friend of a friend of my wife. Considering that I was personally unacquainted with her, and that there are about 1500 deaths a day in my ...
That's six pieces of foolishness occupying just five lines of text out of about 35 lines per page in Justice Sotomayor's dissent; one-seventh of a page out of 58 pages, or about one four-hundredth of the ...
Back in 1961 a CIA agent and I approached Thomas Lejus, who won the 1959 boys" singles championship for the Soviet Union at Wimbledon. We took him to Café Royal, where Oscar Wilde and Whistler and other such swells used ...
As the years roll on through the Obama Era and the evidence accumulates that the failure of blacks to catch up has less and less to do with white racism, the American media has become increasingly obsessed with pounding the ...
I am puzzled as to why racism is thought to be a terrible thing, rather than entirely natural and often reasonable, and why people allow themselves to be browbeaten about it. Maybe we should stop. Domestic tranquility would ...
When lawmen break the law, there is no law. During a fortnight when the American establishment wasn"t handing out machine guns to heavily medicated dissociative personalities with self-reported head wounds or ...
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. is the sort of guy you"d expect to go on a shooting rampage at two different Jewish community centers and wind up killing three Christians instead. Whether he's a stooge, a tool, a crafty ...
The latest British parliamentary spat was a further ripple from the scandal about MPs" expenses that first splashed into our headlines in 2009. In December 2012, it was discovered that up till the wider scandal's outbreak, ...
Even his homespun-sounding name"Cliven Bundy"hints that he is part of a dying breed. Reputed to be the “last rancher in South Nevada,” he locked horns with the US Bureau of Land Management last week in a ...
The Week's Most Regrettable, Lamentable, and Unforgettable Headlines HAPPY TAX FREEDOM DAY! As Americans scramble to file their 2013 tax returns by tomorrow's midnight deadline, let us never forget that on average, we work ...