VDH: We have had about a half-century of racial preferences and often unspoken but real quotas for hiring and admission based on racial identity. If the original intent was to level the playing field for African-Americans and Latinos, who had been subject to systematic and often gratuitously mean discrimination throughout much of the American South and Southwest, nonetheless the current rationale for sustaining affirmative action has become a veritable nightmare

Screw the rich! (Unless, like, they’re our rich. In which case, cater to them). “Nearly 20 percent of new Obamacare waivers are gourmet restaurants, nightclubs, fancy hotels in Nancy Pelosi’s district”: Of the 204 new Obamacare waivers President Barack Obama’s administration approved in April, 38 are for fancy eateries, hip nightclubs and decadent hotels in House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s Northern California district. That’s in addition to the 27 new

Dr Leon Friedman, professor of law, Hofstra, writing at the Huffington Post: Of course, Congress must rely on the specific words of the Constitution as a basis for any legislation, as the Republicans and the Tea Party insists. But those broad words — “general welfare” “regulate commerce” — must be read in accordance with the economic reality of our time, not the time in which the Constitution was ratified. The

Actual grass-roots opposition — as opposed to the staged optics meant to create perceptions that don’t really jibe with reality — is difficult, and requires actual widespread opposition. — Which, like allowing voters to decide shit, can get messy. Best to have the deck stacked. FOR FREEDOM! Area MoveOn members will rally inside and outside a town hall meeting Representative West is holding on May17 to protest the Representative’s recent

From unhelpful Visigoths Hans A. von Spakovsky and James Sherk, writing at the Corner: The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) raised a lot of eyebrows by filing a complaint against Boeing for opening a new plant in a right-to-work state. But that action is just the beginning of the board’s aggressive new pro-union agenda. An internal NLRB memorandum, dated May 10, shows that the board wants to give unions much