September 2006

If I Were The Pope…

September 16, 2006

…I wouldn’t apologize for jack. This is why I couldn’t be a politician or high-profile public figure. Anyone who demanded an apology from me would be told, nicely, exactly where they and their demand could go. (Also see Wizbang, Malkin, Captain Ed, Prof. Bainbridge…) Update: Rats! Pope criticizes violent, barbarbic thugs; they react like violent, [...]

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My Kingdom for a Movie Ticket

September 15, 2006

U.S. immigration policy is a JOKE. A few days ago, a local newspaper in California reported what’s been known for quite some time: the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is giving employees cash and prize bonuses to “fastrack” immigration applications to reduce a backlog, at the expense of properly vetting the documents for criminal [...]

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Michael Steele: Black and Right?

September 15, 2006

Tuesday, September 19: This post is closed. To comment about the Steele-Cardin campaign, go to the latest post. ————————————————————- It’s well known that blacks vote for Democrats overwhelmingly. It is as certain as the sunrise. In fact, it’s such a sure thing that Democratic candidates could bet their lives on getting a hefty majority of [...]

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Air America Fails to Re-Pay Money Stolen From Poor Black Kids in New York – To File for Bankruptcy?

September 14, 2006

Update (10:56 a.m.): Think Progress, the leftist site that broke the bankruptcy news, updates with a statement from Air America: “If Air America had filed for bankruptcy every time someone rumored it to be doing so, we would have ceased to exist long ago; it may be frustrating to some that this hasn’t happened. No [...]

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Value of Diversity: Serious Input Needed

September 13, 2006

Wednesday, September 20: This post is closed to commenting, but if you’d like to respond, send me an e-mail. Update (3:39 p.m.): One day, liberal types will have to dispense with the euphemism minorities when referring to blacks and hispanics because whites are becoming minorities in certain sections of the country. People using the word [...]

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Write A Novel In 30 Days

September 12, 2006

Just for “fun,” I’m thinking about participating in this year’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) project. I first read about it a few years ago and always wanted to try it. From November 1 through November 30, courageous participants will crank out a 175-page, 50,000-word novel in any genre. It won’t be perfect, and it [...]

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Ghana Apologizes For Selling Out Countrymen

September 12, 2006

Update (9/13): John Derbyshire on religious slavery. ——————————————————————————— Black people in Africa are acknowledging their ancestors’ role in the slave trade. It’s about time. In an effort to attract black tourists, the African country of Ghana wants black Americans to know how sorry they are for all the trouble. In my unpopular but right-on-the-money opinion, [...]

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Press and Podcasts

September 11, 2006

Update (9/12): Instead of recoiling in disgust at the typo the editor and I missed, I’ll make a sport of it. See if you can spot the tiny typo in my otherwise OK book review of Juan Williams’s Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and [...]

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A Religious and Unconventional War

September 11, 2006

Update II (9/12): And bringing up the rear are Literal Barrage, Tel-Chai Nation, Flopping Aces, and League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Everyday, sometimes several times a day, there’s another story about Muslims blowing up something or somebody. ———————————————————————————————– Update: Commenter Judy writes (emphases added): “Later that day [9/11/01] I made my way home on an [...]

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Friday Meme: Last Paragraphs of Harry Potter Book 7

September 8, 2006

Update II (9/11): Jo says it ain’t so! Update (9/9): The Ticket, a gossip mag, is reporting that J.K. Rowling said: “I’m up to about 750 pages now, but I’m not telling anyone what happens to Harry. I’ve just come along to support Rupert who’s absolutely terrific in Driving Lessons.” If true, great! Book 5, [...]

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Conservative Cowardice

September 8, 2006

Update II (9/10): Commenters who call anyone a racist in this comment thread — Derbyshire, other commenters, etc. — will be deleted. If you don’t see your comment, that’s why. Second offense, banned. Long time readers know I don’t allow it. It’s a conversation killer used to intimidate and an easy way to avoid challenging [...]

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Third World PC BS

September 7, 2006

Update IV (9/8): Diana West writes: Five years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, World War II was over, Japan and Germany vanquished. Five years after September 11, we still speculate as to who, or what, our enemy is. We have had a brief fling with “Islamic fascism” — a phrase that, in its 20th-century-European [...]

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Google News Archives Search

September 7, 2006

(Photo: New York Times, July 10, 1863 – Note the “Retreat of Lee” sidebar, referring to Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s retreat from Gettysburg.) Back in my library visiting days, I used to read old newspapers on microfilm. Not for research. For pleasure. I liked reading old stories and looking at corny print ads. Sometimes [...]

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Duke Rape Case: Nifong Wrong…Again

September 5, 2006

Over the past few months I’ve blogged about Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong’s overwhelmingly flimsy case, his uncanny ability to ignore exculpatory evidence and evidence damaging to his case, his inconsistent and contradictory statements to the media and subsequent regret about those statements, and his animosity toward us bloggers. I even threw in a [...]

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New Spin on Old ‘Stereotype Threat’ Theory

September 5, 2006

Update (9/6): What I don’t like about white liberal social engineer types and their black counterparts is their unseemly compulsion to hand-wring and point fingers at nameless and faceless third parties when it comes to explaining the black-white academic achievement gap. No matter whose fault it is, parents and students themselves have more power than [...]

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