The post-racial President with the great pant crease and the faculty lounge argot in action: The unemployment rate for black teens, ages 16 to 19, was 32.4% in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), whose data also show that only 24.9% of black youth are participating in the nation’s labor force. The participation rate for black youth has decreased from 26.4% in January to 24.9% in February,

Ah, don’t you just love sneering, self-styled multiculturalists who, when it comes down to brass tacks, are about as fair-minded, non-judgmental, and accurate in their internalized caricatures as was, say, Hitler? Or for you Godwin’s Law adepts, at least John Kerry testifying about his fellow American soldiers? “As a European this is how I imagine Americans have breakfast” Fortunately, the comments are hilarious — and go a long way toward

I’m just speculating, but it probably would have been something along the lines of this:  instead of just calling ourselves TEA Partiers, I think it’s time we gather together a million or two disgusted citizens angry at the politicization of the IRS, which is now one of the police arms of the progressive left’s soft coup, and dump a bunch of real tea into the Potomac. But we’ll make it

Hey, isn’t that Facebook guy one of the investors behind the whole “conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform” movement? Guess that means the “new conservatism,” in addition to promoting cheap labor at the expense of an already depleted job market; and creating new Democratic voting constituencies to turn, by design, red states into purple states into blue states into welfare states, is now for suppression of speech targeted at those who

Racialist politics.  It’s tedious.  It’s predictable.  It’s ugly. And what makes it so ugly is that it diminishes the depravity of real racism by diluting it with phony indictments and trivializing it with ridiculous and insupportable claims aimed at non-racists.  To wit: A debate Tuesday over a bill to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected turned to race after Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, compared her bill

Or, “the buck stops there.” Convenient.  But hardly enough.  I’m telling you, the GOP establishment would be exposed as complicit — either by commission or omission — in any serious independent investigation. Which is why we will never get one. We’ll get a few sacrificial lambs.  And then be told justice was served. So it’s time to Move On and Shut Up, or else risk being “unhelpful” yet again. This

I’d like to launch this post with a shortish monograph on how, per intentionalism, the very idea that by altering the law what Obama is doing is creating an entirely new text, not “reinterpreting” and existing text to allow it to incorporate all his changes — and by so doing, point out once again that the way we believe language operates is crucial to how we allow laws to function

    Congrats to Satch, who took home “Grappler of the Year” at tonight’s Wrestling Awards banquet.  He’s been fortunate to have some great coaching over the past couple years, from Joey Gardner to Sonny Yohn (Div I All-American, U of Minn) to Leister Bowling, himself a UFC grappling coach, coach on “The Ultimate Fighter,” and former 3-time State Champion and Colorado State record holder for wins and take downs.

Student’s claim of being assaulted at school was “made up.” Discipline? Suspension? Heaven Mythical afterlife place forbid! A transgender teenager who said he was beaten and sexually assaulted in a California high school bathroom recanted the story, police said Tuesday. The 15-year-old student at Hercules Middle/High School “admitted he fabricated the whole story” during an interview with a detective, Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten said. […] The change left

Elizabeth Scalia: So, you know all this brouhaha, all these hysterics about how bakers, and photographers, and other service-providers who routinely work for gay clientele (but draw a line at serving gay weddings because they feel it imperils their souls) are horrible people? And you know the whole “if you think that way, then you’re a bigot,” thing, because governments and pundits have taken it into their heads that it