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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

Race & Corruption

Posted on August 02, 2010
The New York Times reports today on the ethics charges facing Charlie Rangel and Mad Maxine Waters (my characterization, not the NYT?s), emphasizing the effect of the corruption charges on the Dems. (?In Ethics Battles, a Partywide Threat,? by David Herszenhorn and Carl Hulse) Here is the saddest and, I think, most significant and revealing paragraph in the piece: Neither lawmaker, both Democrats, faces electoral jeopardy...

Washington Post-Partisanship

Posted on August 01, 2010
As I wrote here, Long time, or even short time, readers will know that I often have some fun at the expense of Washington Post affirmative action columnist, and one of MSNBC?s talking head Obamanauts, Eugene Robinson. And here, criticizing Mr. Robinson?s notion that it?s an insult to refer to Obama as an affirmative action candidate, I linked to seven (count them) earlier discussions of him...

The Mother Of All Signing Statements

Posted on July 29, 2010
Some of you are old enough to remember ? or not so old that you can?t remember (me? my memory?s still so good I can?t recall the last time I forgot anything) ? that just a few short years ago the left was giving President Bush holy hell (actually, unholy hell) over his use of ?signing statements? to specify parts of laws he thought unconstitutional and hence would not enforce...

Folk Music, Blueberries, And The Decline Of Hope

Posted on July 26, 2010
There?s so much race stuff to discuss right now that missing a day or three creates an enormous backlog, which I now have since Helene (the Discriminating wife) and I are in White Plains visiting Jessie (the Discriminating daughter) for a week. (Don?t worry; Mosby the Discriminating Dog is being well cared for at home)...

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Of Course This Is Not A Quota!

Posted on July 24, 2010
According to Inside Higher Ed this morning, The University of California at San Diego has announced that it has authorized 33 new faculty searches for 2010-11 ? and that 12 of the searches will be focused on hires who will ?contribute to diversity, equity and climate of inclusion at UC San Diego...

Webb Untangled!

Posted on July 23, 2010
Senator James Webb, Democrat of Virginia, has done what too many Republicans are too afraid to do ? call for an outright end to the ?plethora of government-enforced diversity policies.? In a truly remarkable OpEd in the Wall Street Journal, Webb writes that ?present-day diversity programs ...

The Silver Lining In The Shirley Sherrod Cloud

Posted on July 22, 2010
The always optimistic Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, sends the following thoughts re Shirley Sherrod et al., which I quote with permission: A Happy Thought re Tea Parties, New Black Panthers, the NAACP, et al...

Just The Facts, Please

Posted on July 21, 2010
I know this sounds quaint, but I remained convinced that our political discourse would be improved if reporters stuck to reporting ... and pollsters stuck to presenting the results of their polls and surveys, keeping their opinions to themselves unless we ask for them...

The Washington Post Apologizes

Posted on July 20, 2010
Wanna hear a good one? On Sunday the Washington Post ombudsman apologized for his paper?s lack of coverage of the Justice Dept.?s dropping the New Black Panther Party case. Among other things, he said, [i]f Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and his department are not colorblind in enforcing civil rights laws, they should be nailed...

White House to Impose "Fairness" on Education Spending

Posted on July 20, 2010
Someone I?ve been linking with increasing frequency lately has another disturbing post on Minding The Campus today, this one on an announced attempt by the White House to make sure that state education spending is ?fair? and ?equitable? and has no ?disparities...

More On Quota Tsunami In FinReg

Posted on July 18, 2010
Those of you who read The Coming Quota Tsunami will not be surprised by very much that appears in MSM Ignored Racial, Gender Quotas in Financial Reform Bill, which appeared yesterday on Big Journalism, but I encourage you to take a look at it anyway.

Obama?s Legacy

Posted on July 16, 2010
I know, I know. Obama?s not gone yet, and predictions of his political demise are premature. Thus I may be among the first to discuss his legacy, but I believe the outlines of that legacy are beginning to emerge. ?By now,? the Washington Times editorialized yesterday, the default judgment about the Barack Obama-Eric H...

Michelle Obama?s Entitlement

Posted on July 15, 2010
Speaking to the NAACP convention last Monday, Michelle Obama said: I know that I stand here today, and I know that my husband stands where he is today, because of this organization ? and because of the struggles and the sacrifices of all those who came before us...

Dramatic New Poll Results On Affirmative Action

Posted on July 15, 2010
One thing you can?t say about the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress: that they govern by the polls. They pushed through Obamacare, even though a substantial majority opposed it. They are suing Arizona over its attempt to protect itself from illegal immigrants, even though a substantial majority supports the Arizona law...

Who?s Embarrassing?

Posted on July 15, 2010
From Rasmussen today: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 26% of voters are embarrassed by Arizona and its behavior. Sixty-two percent (62%) are not. However, 59% are embarrassed by the nation?s Political Class and its behavior...

Drastic Racial ?Underrepresentation? At University Of California

Posted on July 15, 2010
Insofar as administrators at the University of California think UC should be a mirror of the state?s demographics, they are failing miserably. As of 2008, non-Hispanic whites were 42.3% of California?s population, but they will be only 26.2% of the incoming freshman class...

The Onion Or the Washington Post?

Posted on July 13, 2010
Good question, if I do say so myself. Asked and answered here.

The Power Of DISCRIMINATIONS

Posted on July 13, 2010
A day or two before Sen. Scott Brown?s announcement that he would support FinReg, I sent him this letter: July 8, 2010 Dear Senator Brown: Although I live in Virginia, not Massachusetts, I contributed to your Senate campaign (several times) before it was the popular thing to do among conservatives...

Ethnic Studies: ??White Studies?? in Black and Brown?

Posted on July 12, 2010
Almost lost in the uproar over Arizona?s controversial new immigration law is another controversial Arizona law, House Bill 2281 passed a month later, that prohibits school districts or charter schools from offering classes that Promote the overthrow of the united states government; Promote resentment toward a race or class of people; Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group; Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals...

Welcome To Middlebury

Posted on July 11, 2010
From the Montpelier Times Argus: Middlebury Police Chief Tom Hanley believes that when someone is a member of his community, it doesn't matter how the person got there.... ?We are a public peace agency,? Hanley said late last week. ?My agency focuses on enforcing criminal statutes and state laws...

The Racial Politics Of The American Association Of Law Schools

Posted on July 10, 2010
Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, has a brilliant article on the NAS site demonstrating that the line connecting the Dept. of Justice?s dropping of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case and the Association of American Law Schools is shorter than you might think...

Is Taxing Tanning Salons Discriminatory?

Posted on July 10, 2010
On Thursday the Washington Post reported on a controversy over the 10% tax on tanning salons included in the Obamacare health care care bill. (According to CNN, that tax is expected to raise $2.7 billion over 10 years.) ?Since patrons of tanning salons are almost exclusively white,? the critics allege, ?the tax will be almost entirely paid by white people and, therefore, violates their constitutional right to equal protection under the law...

The Coming Quota Tsunami

Posted on July 09, 2010
We are told by our betters that the financial regulation bill making its way through Congress is necessary in order to prevent another financial meltdown. In fact, insofar as that meltdown was precipitated by a burst housing bubble produced at least in part by the Community Reinvestment Act, Fannie and Freddie, et al...

I Didn?t Know That!

Posted on July 08, 2010
From Jonah Goldberg yesterday: In 2005, volunteer firefighters from all over the country offered to help with Katrina?s aftermath. But FEMA sent many of them to Atlanta first to undergo diversity and sexual-harassment training (which most already had)...

Controversial?

Posted on July 07, 2010
If you?re interested in the arguably controversial way controversies in higher education over race are treated in the media, take a look at The Uses of the Word ?Controversial? on Minding The Campus. (If you do, note that the formatting/linking in the second paragraph is screwed up...

?The Original Sin Of Frank Rich?

Posted on July 07, 2010
... is discussed by one of DISCRIMINATION?s (very) small stable of regular writers on Pajamas Media today, here. It may be worth a read.

And in Australia ...

Posted on July 05, 2010
Julia Gillard has become the first female prime minister, pleasing those on the left in the United States like Huffington Post since, it declared, ?[s]he is from a left-wing faction of Labor....? So, perhaps the left here should take notice of one of her first policy initiatives, breaking from the policy of her Labor predecessor, former prime minister Kevin Rudd...

Where Is Deference To The French When You Need It?

Posted on July 05, 2010
It hasn?t been so long since our American elites thought we should be more sensitive to the opinions of our cultural betters in Europe, especially the French. Now the French are beginning to address a problem with which we have a lot of experience, and it?s interesting to see what they think of what we?ve done...

The New Black Panther Party Is Not Alone...

Posted on July 05, 2010
... as special favorites of the Obama/Holder Justice Dept. J. Christian Adams, the DOJ attorney who recently resigned over DOJ?s handling of the Black Panther case, has a long and frightening expose of other examples of the Obama administration refusing to investigate or prosecute racial irregularities and intimidation conducted by black politicians...

The Fourth Recycling Of July 4th

Posted on July 03, 2010
On three separate occasions over the blog years ? 2002, 2006, and 2008 ? I recycled a short piece I wrote for a special July 4th issue of The Nation . As I explained in the first of those posts, I was ?in sympathetic and close association with The Nation for a number of years, even working there in a couple of different capacities for a while...

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