Affirmative action is keeping blacks out of the legal profession. Get out the crayolas and color me shocked. As the article points out, good intentions aren’t enough, and when they implement racist policies, they’re all the more egregious.

[Late evening update]

Jeff Goldstein has further thoughts.

For some unaccountable reason, Senator Kerry has decided not to sue the Swift Boat Vets for Truth for libel. Beldar gives him one last chance.

I just don’t understand. How can he pass up this golden opportunity to clear his name?

The French are prepared to apologize to Iraq.

A smart Republican presidential candidate will make a big deal out of this story, and promise to do something about it (such as reining in the BATF). It won’t be Rudy, though.

Burt Prelutsky has some thoughts. I have to dispute this particular point, though, because it continues to nurture the myths of that incident:

Frankly, I didn

From a mail list I subscribe to:

If a Republican is elected President in November ’08, Roe v Wade is a dead fetus walking.

Of course, I think that Roe should be reversed simply because it was such an atrocious opinion, independently of my opinion on abortion. People should also understand that a reversal wouldn’t outlaw abortions, per se. It would simply restore the issue back to the states, and the political process, where it always belonged.

Just in case you had somehow deluded yourself that Robert Fisk was sane, he’s apparently joined the 911 Truth Brigade. As someone at The Corner pointed out, the title should have been “Especially I…,” not “Even I…”

I don’t have time, but anyone want to have a go at fisking Fisk?

Just in case you had somehow deluded yourself that Robert Fisk was sane, he’s apparently joined the 911 Truth Brigade. As someone at The Corner pointed out, the title should have been “Especially I…,” not “Even I…”

I don’t have time, but anyone want to have a go at fisking Fisk?

Just in case you had somehow deluded yourself that Robert Fisk was sane, he’s apparently joined the 911 Truth Brigade. As someone at The Corner pointed out, the title should have been “Especially I…,” not “Even I…”

I don’t have time, but anyone want to have a go at fisking Fisk?

Al Maliki has asked Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin to “come to their senses.”