Indiana Pacer Stephen Jackson, who gets paid millions to play a game, has called the new NBA dress code "racist" because it prohibits the wearing of jewelry worn over clothing -- think Mr. T. Jackson voiced no opposition to the bulk of the "business casual" demands in the NBA's new dress code, but he described […]
Earlier this week I wrote far too much about Bill Bennett's reductio ad absurdum that it can be dangerous to take a flyer on the possibility that we wouldn't have a Social Security crisis if all of those 30+ million aborted future workers were around to fund grandma's Social Security check. Bennett illustrated the danger […]
I avoided commenting on the Bill Bennett dust-up over the past few days because most of what I would've written had been stated elsewhere. See here, here and here. That last link highlights our hypocrite of the week NPR/Fox News' Juan Williams. While condemning Bennett for making the true, but offensive, observation that aborting all […]
It appears as though the gray areas in talking about race have gotten so expansive that there isn't much you can say without getting branded a racist. The Union-Tribune's Ruben Navarrette wrote a column earlier this week taking John Roberts to task for using the term "amigos" in an internal White House memo during the […]
I'm not naive. I know that there are people like Louisiana's David Duke and Fallbrook's own Tom Metzger who have a darkness and hatred in their own hearts that makes all skin color pale in comparison. But are we still at the point that everything is always about race? I'm not a big fan of […]
In a letter to The Wall Street Journal today, the spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross denies an earlier Journal editorial that charged a ICRC official with using a Nazi slur. Let's just say that I'm not at all convinced by the ICRC's letter -- and this is a big part of […]
Several months ago I predicted that a sympathetic judge would let Kerri Francis Dunn, the college professor that vandalized her own car with racist slurs, off with a slap on the wrist. I suspect that a sympathetic judge will probably let Dunn off with a slap on the wrist -- probation and a sizable fine. […]
I mentioned last week that one of my colleagues at work had dismissed race-baiter and hatemonger Al Sharpton as "harmless." With Sharpton's background as the main promoter of the Tawana Brawley hoax, inciting the Crown Heights riots -- which left one Orthodox Jew dead -- and the massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart, I found his […]
Al Sharpton is a gifted public speaker. He is also a race-baiter and a hatemonger. I was talking with a colleague earlier this evening when it seemed like the volume on every TV set in the newsroom was turned up to the max. They weren't, but when Sharpton speaks he's not exactly a shrinking violet. […]
NAACP President Kwesi Mfume was all over Fox News yesterday, appearing on both John Gibson's and Bill O'Reilly's shows, attempting to make the case for President Bush appearing before that organization's national convention. And on the same day, NAACP chairman Julian Bond demonstrates why Bush shouldn't go. Probably the only place that Bush could go […]