…will be happy to hear that UCLA has rejected a three million dollar donation from Donald Sterling for kidney research. People are falling all over themselves to show how righteous they are by shunning Sterling and everything he ever touched. … Continue reading →
I’m not going to waste time listening to the tape of a conversation between the 81-year-old billionaire owner of the Clippers and his 20-something girlfriend that has everyone in an uproar about his racism. It’s a private conversation, for goodness … Continue reading →
McCarthy strongly criticizes Obama and Holder here. It’s worth reading the whole thing; too bad most Americans won’t read even a single sentence of it. Here’s an excerpt: …[I]n making a mockery of his core constitutional duty to execute the … Continue reading →
…reminds me of the war on little schoolkids making gun gestures with their hands. Instead of worrying about the thing itself, people are worrying about a simulacrum of the thing. Why would people who are against smoking because of its … Continue reading →
I’m reading the book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. It’s a chilling document, especially because—unlike in 1989, when the book was first written—it’s become more and more clear that the left’s long … Continue reading →
SCOTUS has ruled 6-2 (Kagan abstaining) that Michigan’s law against race-based affirmative action is constitutional. In other words, it’s not racial discrimination to ban the sort of racial discrimination that is supposedly designed for the purpose of redressing racial discrimination. … Continue reading →
Here are some cautionary tales about the strength and possible danger of legal marijuana edibles, whether they be sold as medical marijuana or in states like Colorado which choose to legalize general marijuana sales: Last year, the poison center run … Continue reading →
This New Yorker article by Jelani Cobb manages to discuss the failure of desegregation laws in the US without acknowledging some of the underlying reasons behind it: And so, sixty years after Brown, it is clear that the notion of … Continue reading →
I must confess that the McCutcheon case that was decided by SCOTUS yesterday rested on an area of law with which I wasn’t all that familiar. One of the big questions yesterday’s ruling raised for me was: if campaign contributions … Continue reading →
Not the ceiling on each campaign contribution, mind you, but their total. The vote was the very familiar 5-4: Wednesday’s decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission…did not affect familiar base limits on contributions from individuals to candidates, currently $2,600 … Continue reading →
This piece by Margaret Carlson is disingenuous and/or purposely misleading in so many ways it’s hard to choose one to highlight, but I’ll deal with one of the simplest: it discusses the Hobby Lobby case without once mentioning that the … Continue reading →
It boggles the mind: In a stunning criminal complaint, State Sen. Leland Yee has been charged with conspiring to traffic in firearms and public corruption as part of a major FBI operation spanning the Bay Area, casting yet another cloud … Continue reading →