In the comments to my previous post, Half Canadian reminds me of this 2002 John Miller piece, which references a famous (and now, evidently, ignored) Sports Illustrated poll gauging Native American opinion on the use of Indian nicknames, mascots, characters, and symbols by amateur and professional sports teams: The Peter Harris Research Group polled 352 Native Americans (217 living on reservations and 134 living off) and 743 sports fans; the

Tell you what:  howsabout you people dance, and me and the little guy just sit here with a 12-pack of Corona Light and some cheddar popcorn and watch all the silly white folk strain to locate the beat in Johnny Cash’s American Recordings IV.

From Bloomberg News: The National Collegiate Athletic Association banned the use of American Indian mascots by sports teams during its postseason tournaments, a ruling the president of Florida State University called “outrageous and insulting.’’ The NCAA’s executive committee said the organization, which governs college sports, is limiting the prohibition to tournaments it controls. It doesn’t have the power to institute an outright ban, said University of Hartford President Walter Harrison,

So.  What are we to make of this, do you think…? (via Drudge)

An email sent to Kathryn Jean Lopez and posted on The Corner (re:  preliminary attempts by the New York Times to have the adoption records of SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ children forcibly opened): How stupid are you? Wait, don’t answer. Roberts’ adoptions are relevant because he has two adorable, white blond kids. He probably exerted pull to get them, leaping ahead of the tens of thousands of other adults who

Yeah, that’s right, I’m looking at you.  Little bitch.*

Ryan Sager, who has been a dogged critic of McCain-Feingold, invites us to take a closer look at McCain’s own Reform Institute—a non-profit “think tank” that just so happens to reside in “the same Old Towne office building as McCain’s re-election committee (Friends of John McCain), his PAC (Straight Talk America) and his adviser’s lobbying firm (Davis Manafort & Freedman).” From “The Horse McCain Rode In On,” in today’s New

From the Washington Post: Prime Minister Tony Blair on Friday announced new deportation measures against those who foster hatred and advocate violence, as his government tries to counter Islamic extremists in Britain. Blair said the government would draw up a list of extremist Web sites, book shops and organizations and said that involvement with them could be a trigger to deport foreign nationals. Hmmm.  Galloway.  That’s a Scots-Syrian surname, isn’t

Stop staring already, would you?  Jesus—you’d think you were raised in a barn or something.

From ABC News Online: Amnesty International has accused the United States of complicity in the torture and detention of terrorism suspects in secret locations around the world. In a report to be released later today, Amnesty International details the stories of two Yemeni men who were both tortured for four days in Jordan before spending 18 months in secret detention. Amnesty says the men are still being held in prison