Race-Based Admissions: Critical Mass Standard Is a Massive Mess in Texas
When is a quota not a quota? That seems to be the burning question in the latest Supreme Court case on race-based college admissions. It’s also a problem of the Court’s own making. Twenty-two year old...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage and Individual Rights
The United States government was founded on the principle of protecting individual rights. The Declaration of Independence says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created...
View ArticleJust Say No to Jobs for the Young and Unskilled
Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill in September to raise the state’s minimum wage. Photo: Nick Ut, Associated PressAs pictured here, Governor Jerry Brown has signed new minimum wage legislation that ups the...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren: “We Are Not Resting Until at Least 50 Senators Are...
It’s just not fair: only one of the Senate millionaires pictured here is a womanElizabeth Warren is out selling herself and her new book, Fighting Chance, and her headline du jour is “We Are Not...
View ArticleIs “Redskins” Offensive?
Controversy over the nickname of the NFL’s Washington Redskins has been swirling for nearly a year. Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it had withdrawn...
View Article50 Years of Mischief: The Triumph and Trashing of the Civil Rights Act
Census Form July 2 marks the 50th anniversary of the most famous Civil Rights Act in U.S history. Passed after the longest debate in congressional history, the Civil Rights Act (CRA) promised to secure...
View ArticleClassifying America: Government’s Power to Define Is the Power to Discriminate
In one of the most famous phrases uttered by a Supreme Court justice, Potter Stewart defended his ruling in an obscenity case (1964) by refusing to offer a clear definition. Instead, he stated: “I...
View ArticleTaking Offense at Every Word or Phrase?
A recent news item suggests that if offense possibly can be taken, it will be taken. We have just been treated to studied outrage at the nicknames of the NFL’s Washington “Redskins”, Florida State...
View ArticleEmployers Do Not Systematically and Persistently Pay Women Less than Men for...
The quality of economic journalism in the United States is terrible. Day after day, journalists write about the causes and consequences of economic conditions and events without understanding the...
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