January 2009

Supreme Court to Hear Firefighters’ Case

January 12, 2009

Last month I mentioned that the fire department in New Haven, Connecticut, threw out test results and canceled promotions because too few black firefighters scored high enough to receive promotions. The department was concerned about promoting too many whites, a clear case of racial discrimination. Firefighter Frank Ricci and others (one hispanic and more than [...]

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Murder, Marriage, and Hamster Wheels

January 7, 2009

Heather Mac Donald hits another one out of the park with a parsing of a New York Times article about the “youth crisis” of rising murder rates among blacks. Nothing new. Young black men kill each other and will continue doing so, fueled by factors like fatherlessness and family instability. Generally speaking, there’s no one [...]

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California Supreme Court to Hear In-State Tuition Case

January 6, 2009

How much do people really care that in California, illegal aliens are not only not kicked out of the country, but they receive in-state tuition to tax-supported colleges and universities? At the very least, it’s something to blog about. As you may know, illegal aliens are in the U.S. illegally. That is, they’ve broken the [...]

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Ultrasound Before the Slaughter

January 2, 2009

When I was a younger woman, I fled my home state of South Carolina like a bat out of hell. But the older I get, the more I like it. Especially after reading this. There’s a law in SC that requires child killing “providers” to give women the option of seeing an ultrasound of their [...]

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Young Stars Read the New Testament

January 2, 2009

Looks like major Christian book publisher Thomas Nelson is hitching a ride on the powerful Disney-esque marketing machine. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I just think it’s…wild, weird, and smart! Young stars like “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks, Sean Astin of “Lord of the Rings,” (Astin’s only a few years younger than I [...]

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Can You Imagine If…

January 2, 2009

I noticed the muted responses from homosexual and feminist bloggers to the gang-rape of a lesbian. I wondered why they weren’t up in arms, ravenously ready to hurl stinging yet passionate words dripping with anger, denouncing this brutal and senseless act of violence against one of their own. Then it dawned on me. The races [...]

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