Is Public Sector Racism Any More Effective Than The Historical Flavor?
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 1 Comment
by Smitty
Via Insty,
Court decisions dating to the 1950s theoretically ended racial segregation of higher education in the United States. But data to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association show that the pace of desegregation has slowed over time. And in a finding that could be controversial, the study finds that states that ban the consideration of race in admissions may see the pace of desegregation accelerate.
The study is by Peter L. Hinrichs, an assistant professor of public policy at Georgetown University. He focuses on black and white students, not those in other racial and ethnic groups, and he examines “exposure” and “dissimilarity” (defined below) of black and white students as two measures of desegregation. Hinrichs uses federal data from every college, filed since the era in which desegregation started. He argues that these measures illustrate the extent to which colleges are truly desegregated, which may not be reflected simply by increases or decreases in black student enrollments (which can be concentrated at certain institutions).
Plus
Hinrichs is quick to say in the paper (and in the interview) that his findings do not suggest that states should ban affirmative action.
This blog is quick and unfailing to point out that raaaaacism is immoral, and attempting “to use the rule of law as an instrument of human redemption” is as much pure hooey as anything else these Progressives spew.
Oh, and look:
News From the People’s Democratic Republic of 3600 New York Avenue
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 6 Comments
The paranoid managerial regime now in charge of The Washington Times has announced a successful further liquidation of the kulaks:
The Washington Times summoned several staff members to the auditorium this morning. Inside sources say management has laid off approximately 25 employees in a newsroom of 90 . . .
Several employees who were not invited to this morning’s meeting… suspect that they will be fired separately. . . .
Meanwhile, TWT consultant John Solomon, who ridiculously insists he has nothing do with layoff decisions, is meeting with the remaining employees this afternoon to discuss operations.
Another Glorious Triumph of the Five-Year Plan!
Such helpless ineptitude would be funny if it were not so tragically sad. FishbowlDC also published a brutal resignation letter submitted last month by the paper’s former deputy editorial page editor:
The Washington Times today is the most unprofessional and dishonest organization I have ever encountered. I can’t continue to spend the lion’s share of my professional time fighting unethical practices being pushed by top leaders in the company.
When I quit five years ago — immediately after it was announced that Solomon had been hired from the Washington Post to replace retiring editor Wes Pruden — some of my co-workers thought I was crazy. Most of those people were subsequently laid off and, whenever I run into one of them nowadays, they congratulate me on having had the foresight to get out while the getting was good.
UPDATE: Veteran photographer Rod Lamkey, sports writer Patrick Stevens and web editor Ted Starkey were reportedly among the kulaks liquidated by the regime in the latest purge. One staffer, Steve Repsher, who got re-hired after being laid off in 2009. was laid off again, but not before remarking the irony:
@doubleuefwhy And with the emphasis on a transition to a digital-first operation, they lop off half the web desk
— Steve Repsher (@SteveRep44) January 4, 2013
UPDATE II: By my count, the Washington Times is on its fourth editor in five years. Editor No. 3, Ed Kelley, was hired in June 2011 and lasted only 16 months in the job. David Jackson was hired as his replacement (Editor No. 4) in November. Meanwhile, John Solomon (Editor No. 1) was re-hired by the Times as a consultant in June (after he left the Daily Beast in January) and was reportedly the man in charge of “reviewing all the departments to decide who they retain” in the latest round of layoffs. You have to be sort of a Kremlinologist to understand who’s who in the Supreme Soviet of the People’s Democratic Republic these days.
UPDATE III: In November, Washington Times editorial page editor Brett Decker resigned and, about three weeks later, Kerry Picket announced she was leaving the paper to join Breitbart.com:
“This is a smart move for Breitbart News and a huge blow to the Washington Times. There is no other way to spin it,” said former TWT editorial page editor Brett Decker, who was Picket’s boss from 2009 until last month. “Kerry’s online reporting generates millions of pageviews a year. During my last days at the newspaper, she had about 1 million pageviews for a single post.”
When Kerry walked out, among the valuable assets she took with her was a Twitter following of more than 12,000. Is there any staffer remaining at The Washington Times who has a social-media presence that size? The newspaper’s main Twitter feed has barely 60,000 followers. (By comparison, David Limbaugh has 87,000 Twitter followers, Dave Weigel has 98,000 and Mark Levin has 190,000.)
This just goes to show the myopia of management. A couple days ago, The Glorious Peoples Commissar David Jackson published a “vision” paper with a lot of blather about becoming a “digital-first news organization” in which “our Internet and online audiences will become our first thought.”
This would seem rather difficult when there’s apparently no one in the organization with a significant social-media presence.
DeMint At Heritage
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 5 Comments
by Smitty
It sounds as though DeMint hopes to do more as a thought leader at Heritage than he did in elective office.
Why was he incapable of being a ‘big ideas’ guy in office?
The ‘optimistic, positive ideas’ pitch sounds swell, but I thought that’s the approach on which Romney finished a powerful, strong second. See what I did there? Avoiding talking about how we got spanked by broadband, breech-loaded baloney is, itself, tantamount to pure hooey.
You can paint the bleak reality of today’s 5Ws without appeal to violence.
Tee Hee Hee: Stacy’s Cousin Makes Hawkins’s 20 Most Annoying Libs List
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 21 Comments
by Smitty
I should like to meet Maggie Moo some day to assure her that, while bearing her no personal animosity, this blog finds her ideas emblematic of how jacked up her generation and this country are:
18) Meghan McCain: The GOP and Meghan McCain have the same sort of great love we’ve seen between Chris Brown and Rihanna. Who’d have ever thought that the Republican Party’s pale imitation of Paris Hilton would still hate us after all this time besides — well, everybody?
Defining Quote: “…I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting for change from inside the Republican Party….If I don’t see some changes in the next four years, I’m going to consider registering as an Independent in 2016.” — Megan McCain
Great post. Thank you, Hawkins!
via Insty
It’s Never Enough for Liberals
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 32 Comments
Having just raised taxes — before the “ink from the autopen” is even dry — Democrat Maxine Waters is demanding still more:
The first thing that we’ve got to do is look at where we still have unfairness in the tax system and make sure that the people of influence, the billionaires and the millionaires and the corporate interests are paying their fair share.
Meanwhile, Donald Douglas reports, liberal talk-radio host Thom Hartmann wants America to “outlaw billionaires“:
I think we should have a wealth tax in the United States and I think all wealth over $1 billion should be taxed at the 100 percent rate. If you can’t make it on a thousand million dollars, a billion dollars is a million dollars a thousand times, if you can’t make it on a billion dollars, well, there is no therefore. There’s nobody who can’t make it on a billion dollars. So, any wealth over a billion dollars, a hundred percent of it goes to help those of us who have less. You can call it redistribution of wealth, that’s fine, I am perfectly comfortable with that language. I think we should outlaw billionaires.
“Eliminationist rhetoric“! But what about those Qatari billionaires who just bought Al Gore’s Current TV? Should they have been outlawed before or after they paid Gore a cool $100 million?
Will ObamaCare Cover This Injury?
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 4 Comments
An unexpected occuptional hazard:
CLEVELAND — A woman was seriously injured after a bizarre incident inside a local strip club early Wednesday morning.
It happened at Christie’s Caberet in The Flats, just after 1 a.m.
According to police, 22-year-old Lauren Block, of Richmond Heights, was reportedly on the second floor of the club when she went over the balcony and landed on her head. . . .
[A] witness said he was getting a lap dance from Block on the second floor of the club when something went terribly wrong.
The reporting officer said this of the incident: “(The witness) stated that (the dancer) grabbed the rail, as he was facing away from the balcony, and she tried to complete some sort of jump/dance move, and accidentally went head first over the rail.”
Block reportedly fell 15 feet and suffered “major head trauma.”
She was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center, where she is listed in critical condition.
If Sandra Fluke can demand free contraceptives, surely strippers should be covered for major head trauma. Health care is a human right!
LIVE AT FIVE: 01.04.13
Posted on | January 4, 2013 | 6 Comments
– compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
Boehner Barely Survives As Speaker
House Minority Leader Pelosi yields the gavel to reelected Speaker of the House Boehner
Ten Republicans withhold votes, cutting margin to three; Pelosi also suffers five defections
Disputes Brewing If Chavez Too Sick To Attend Own Inauguration
Venezuelan government says president suffering from severe lung infection
Argentina Reasserts Claims To Falklands
President Kirchner releases letter calling on UK to obey UN resolutions, talk about islands’ sovereignty
POLITICS
First Faux-Indian Senator Sworn In As 113th Congress Convenes
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) takes the oath of office
Some moron from a family of drunks, politicians and rapists (BIRM) also sworn in
MSNBC Wets Itself Over “Diversity” Of 113th Congress
IL Senate Democrats Wave White Flag On Gay Marriage, Gun Control Bills
Feds Approve Health Insurance Exchanges In Seven More States
First Hindu Congresswoman Takes Oath On Bhagavad Gita
Senator Mark Kirk Makes Dramatic Return After Stroke
Boehner Says No More One-On-One Meetings With Obama
Administration Delivers Delayed Regulatory Agenda; Could Cost $123 Billion To Implement
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Prices Slip On Profit Taking After Fiscal Cliff Rally: NYMEX $92.92, Brent $112.14
Google Beats The Rap
ADP Estimates 215,000 Jobs Created In December
Welcome To The Fiscal Farce
Nordstrom, Costco Report Higher December Sales
Stocks Drop After Fed Signals End To Bond Buys
Spam Canner Hormel Buys Skippy Peanut Butter From Unilever
Can Waze Save Apple Maps?
Samsung Still Rules US Mobile Market
LG, Panasonic, Sony TVs Will Use Android Phones As Remotes
Sprint Set To Unleash Prepaid Service This Month
Snapchat’s Vanishing Photos: The Latest Photo Sharing App
Minecraft Achieves 5 Million XBox Downloads, 17.5 Million Total
SPORTS
Ducks Run Past Wildcats At Fiesta Bowl
Ducks RB De’Anthony Thomas returns the opening kickoff 94 yards for a TD
And then they ran up the score to 35-17 over Kansas State
McNabb Says Eagles Shouldn’t Hire Kelly (Video)
Andy Reid, KC Chiefs Nearing Deal
Penn State’s O’Brien Stays Put After Interview With Browns
New Day, Same News In NHL Lockout Talks
Even Sergio Romo Gets Hosed By The TSA
Murray Chass To Give Up Hall Of Fame Ballot After One Last Dumb Vote
Unsigned Kyle Lohse Hasn’t Talked To Cardinals In Months
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jenny Craig, Medifast Uninterested In Unspeakable Armenian As Spokesthing
Unspeakable Armenian: REJECTED
Jenny Craig looking to promote “real weight loss for real women”. ‘Nuff said.
Kelly Clarkson: Weight Loss Is For Love
Bradley Cooper & Zoe Saldana Split Again
Bethenny Frankel Still Living With Jason Hoppy After Legal Separation
Frank Ocean Busted For Weed On The Go, Driver’s License Confiscated
Lindsay Lohan Paid $100K To Party At Posh London Gala On New Year’s Eve
Britney Spears Working On Next Album
Blacks Turn Out In Force For Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”
FOREIGNERS
Former Delhi Policewoman Says Criticism Of Police In Gang Rape Case Well Deserved
Delhi Rapists Charged With Kidnapping, Rape And Murder; Police Will Seek Death Penalty
State Department Warns Richardson, Schmidt Not To Visit North Korea
Morsi Aide Rapped Over Call For Jews To Return
Suspect In NY Subway Bomb Plot To Be Extradited From UK To US
Malala Yousafzai’s Father Given Consulate Post In Birmingham; Family To Stay In UK
Mexican Troops Kill Twelve In Zacatecas Gunfight
Rebels Threaten To Quit Congo Talks
It’s Cash Only At The Vatican After Bank Of Italy Cuts Off Credit Card Processing
BLOGS & STUFF
Power Line: Better Late Than Never – Boehner Swears Off Secret Deals
Hit & Run: Boehner Re-Elected Speaker But Loses Libertarians’ Votes
Just One Minute: Kevin Drum On Lead And Crime
Hot Air: Pelosi Tells GOP “You Really Ought To Take Back Your Party”
Fred Barnes: The President Who Wants It All
Via Meadia: US Electricity Use Falls As Economy Greens
Bryan Preston: Are Women No Longer Allowed To Fight In Al Jazeera’s “War Room”?
Media Decoder: Time Warner Cable Says They’ll Keep Open Mind On Reinstating Al Jazeera (Formerly Current TV)
Sense Of Events: Americans Are “Liberal-tarian”
Breitbart: FBI – More People Killed With Hammers, Clubs Each Year Than Rifles
Gateway Pundit: Former Dem NYC Mayor Candidate Mark Green Equates Gun Owners To Child Molesters
Israel Matzav: “Unprecedented Support For Israel,” My Tuchus
American Power: Online Pay Models In 2013
NRO Corner: Clinton Adviser Rips Fox News Producer For “Asinine” Question
World’s Least Intimidating Criminal
Posted on | January 3, 2013 | 12 Comments
Say hello to Zachary Dalton Howard of Niceville, Florida. About 10 p.m. on Dec. 22, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department, 22-year-old Howard walked into a convenience store “dressed in a long black coat, hoodie and blue jeans. He told the clerk he had a firearm but never showed a weapon. He left without getting any money after the clerk showed him an empty cash register drawer.”
Howard then went to a nearby Winn-Dixie grocery store, where he called his mother for a ride home.
After he was arrested, Howard told deputies he never had a weapon. He has been charged with one count of robbery.
(Via Florida Sun-Sentinel and Huffington Post.)
Joe Biden, Class Act
Posted on | January 3, 2013 | 7 Comments
Three headlines from Drudge:
- Biden gets frisky with senator’s wife…
- ‘Spread your legs — you’re going to be frisked’…
- Deploys strange accent to welcome family of only black member…
Remember when they said Sarah Palin wasn’t ready to be vice president?
Memoir, Narcissism and the Problem of the Unreliable First-Person Narrator
Posted on | January 3, 2013 | 16 Comments
In addition to its advice about “Crazy Hot Sex” (“10 Secrets to Intense Action”), the February issue of Cosmo features an interview with an actress you probably never heard of before. Julianne Hough tells Cosmo that when she was studying dance in London as a girl, she “was abused, mentally, physically, everything. . . . I was a tormented little kid who had to put on this sexy façade because that was my job and my life.”
Shocking, but have Hough’s abusers been prosecuted? No:
Hough declines to say who abused her or provide other details.
“I’m a very forgiving person, and I don’t want to hurt anybody,” she says. “What’s past is past.”
Unless it is Cosmo‘s purpose to expose the shameful secrets of abusive dance studios — a criminal enterprise in need of investigation – one might be tempted to think that the primary journalistic purpose here is to let Julianne Hough tell her dramatic tale of victimhood. And Cosmo evidently didn’t bother to contact anyone at London’s prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Arts, the alleged scene of her abuse, to attempt to verify these disturbing (but rather vague) claims by Hough.
My own purpose is not to dispute the truth of Julianne Hough’s tale. For all we know, her experiences in London were every bit as horrible as she suggests, and Scotland Yard may yet launch an investigation that exposes the Italia Conti Academy of Arts as a criminal den of sadistic depravity. Readers meanwhile can believe whatever they want. I don’t care.
Rather, it is the entire confessional genre that is the object of my critique. In recent decades, we have become so accustomed to these shocking first-person revelations — “I Was a Teenage Call Girl” and so forth — that we seldom ask what usefulness they provide, and credulously accept the truth of even the wildest tales, without pausing to wonder if the tale-teller might have a motive to exaggerate or otherwise distort the facts.
We’ve seen where this leads: James Frey became a bestselling author whose memoir A Million Little Pieces was featured by Oprah Winfrey:
In emotional filmed testimonials, employees of Winfrey’s Harpo Productions lauded the book as revelatory, with some choking back tears. When the camera then returned to a damp-eyed Winfrey, she said, “I’m crying ’cause these are all my Harpo family so, and we all loved the book so much.”
Unfortunately . . .
Police reports, court records, interviews with law enforcement personnel, and other sources have put the lie to many key sections of Frey’s book. The 36-year-old author, these documents and interviews show, wholly fabricated or wildly embellished details of his purported criminal career, jail terms, and status as an outlaw “wanted in three states.”
In addition to these rap sheet creations, Frey also invented a role for himself in a deadly train accident that cost the lives of two female high school students. In what may be his book’s most crass flight from reality, Frey remarkably appropriates and manipulates details of the incident so he can falsely portray himself as the tragedy’s third victim.
How shocking: The criminal drug addict was also . . . a liar.
Well, a lesson learned the hard way, huh? Unfortunately, not:
Oprah Winfrey has a new book scandal on her hands. A “memoir,” praised in her O Magazine as “startlingly tender,” has been revealed as a complete work of fiction.
“Love and Consequences,” written by Margaret B. Jones, a self-described half white, half Native American foster child and former drug runner, has been revealed as a fake. The fictional story was actually penned by Margaret Seltzer, a white, private-school educated writer.
The problem in both cases was that these liars’ tales were (a) cleverly told, and (b) stories that many people wanted to believe were true.
Good liars are like that: They have a keen sense of what the listener wants to believe, and a capacity for telling lies that seem plausible to the intended audience. Evidently, book editors and TV producers are particularly gullible, if the tale and teller appeal to their sympathies. But why bring Obama’s Dreams From My Father into this? Read more
@DailyPundit, Optimist At Large
Posted on | January 3, 2013 | 4 Comments
by Smitty
But since [the re-election of Rep. Boehner as Speaker] just a squabble over the leadership of the minority faction of the Ruling Party, none of this has a great deal of meaning in the larger scheme of things. No matter who is in charge of the GOP faction, everything will continue to go to hell in the same way it has been going to hell for the past several decades.
I just wonder where Bill gets his supply of rose colored glasses. The #FiscalCliff kabuki was only a 60-day stay of execution for the sequester. Then there is the debt ceiling. If the purpose of the #FiscalCliff, besides thrashing the holidays of all paying attention, was to destroy public interest in paying attention to what these yahoos are doing with the public purse, it was largely successful. Speaker Boehner’s resumption of the gavel was anticlimactic, despite a minority of the peanut gallery stimming itself about unseating him.
From Boehner’s remarks:
Our government has built up too much debt. Our economy is not producing enough jobs. These are not separate problems.
At $16 trillion and rising, our national debt is draining free enterprise and weakening the ship of state.
The American Dream is in peril so long as its namesake is weighed down by this anchor of debt. Break its hold, and we begin to set our economy free. Jobs will come home. Confidence will come back.
As I was able to Tweet the good speaker for his immediate inattention:
.@speakerboehner Debt is a symptom. One hopes to hear a more full diagnosis and remedies in an appropriate venue, sir.
— Smitty (D-aft) (@smitty_one_each) January 3, 2013
Alternate Headline for Current TV Deal
Posted on | January 3, 2013 | 17 Comments
The top of Memeorandum is cluttered with news that Al Gore’s Current TV was sold to Al-Jazeera, but Allahpundit nails the real story:
Al Gore opposed to paying his ‘fair share’
Liberal hypocrisy, thy name is Al:
Al Jazeera did not disclose the purchase price, but people with direct knowledge of the deal pegged it at around $500 million, indicating a $100 million payout for Mr. Gore, who owned 20 percent of Current. Mr. Gore and his partners were eager to complete the deal by Dec. 31, lest it be subject to higher tax rates that took effect on Jan. 1 . . .
Unfortunately for Gore, they couldn’t manage to close the deal until yesterday, so he got screwed out of a few million bucks. The bonus kicker:
Glenn Beck reportedly tried to buy the network last year [but] was told that they wouldn’t sell to someone who wasn’t “aligned with our point of view.” So, naturally: Al Jazeera.
No word yet on whether Al Jazeera, the pro-Islam network based in Qatar, will re-hire Keith Olbermann, who quit Current TV in a huff and filed a $70 million lawsuit against the network. Certainly, if it were a matter of being “aligned with out point of view” . . .
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