Legal Commentary

OutSteynding!

Mark Steyn, sounding positively Burkean, on the origins of the financial crisis:

... isn?t it the case that we?re in this mess because US politicians previously subordinated ?the general reason of the whole? to ?local interests? and ?local prejudices?? That?s to say, with their usual casual destructiveness dressed up in the baby talk of ?diversity?, they chose to turn the mortgage industry into just another branch of the affirmative-action racket. The United States government in effect decreed credit a human right rather than a privilege judiciously granted by one independent contractor to another.

Full post as published by Discriminations on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).