To all the guest bloggers who’ve been instrumental in keeping this site alive. You’ve all come a really long way (in my decidedly not humble opinion), and I’m proud to have you representing a site that carries my name. — Or, at least I would be, were my name, you know, protein wisdom. Still, you get the idea. Thanks also to Dan for sending me the complete novels of Flann

The New York Times’ Bob Herbert is unimpressed with Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman’s address to the NAACP.  Writing of the event, Herbert characterizes it thus: One of President Bush’s surrogates went before the N.A.A.C.P. last week and apologized for the Republican Party’s reprehensible, decades-long Southern strategy. The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They

Ah, the American “progressivist” left: where actual Klan membership is forgiven and tacitly apologized for in favor of the kind of cheap, canned irony implicit in facile suggestions that a bit more than half of the voters in the US are the real racists, even if they don’t know it. Derrida might call such “analysis” arche-writing; me, I just find it sad when this kind of fevered partisanship cooks the

A transcription error appears in my July 3 conversation with Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) Grand Kleagle hood. In that earlier post, the exchange in question reads this way: me: “…Can I just tell you, though, that you are the whitest piece of fabric I’ve ever seen! Christ, you’re white as a Kerry dinner party, y’know?” hood: me: ” — like the guest list at a Barry Manilow concert, is how white

I thought it might be fun to revisit my conversations with an expert on the subject of rank racialism. And no, I’m not talking about RSM, who may or may not be — Oh, forget it. This is about Rep Scalise (whom, incidentally, I have mostly contempt for, though not about this, necessarily) and David Duke. And of course, the leftist media’s double standards. Water being wet and all.

That’s okay, April.  I can’t understand how a black woman can support the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, the blocking of civil rights legislation, the elevation of a Klan Grand Kleagle to Senate Majority Leader, and the eugenics of Margaret Sanger, who founded planned parenthood to rid the country of as many mongrel babies as was possible — a party that oversees the consistent increase in welfare recipients,

From Gail Heriot, professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Affirmative Action Backfires”: Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative