Bookworm on Jan 29 2013 | Filed under: Identity politics, Judges, Race
Tweet Justice Sotomayor came to San Francisco and inadvertently made the case that affirmative action terribly unfair — and, moreover, that people are right if they believe, not that it gives qualified minorities a chance, but that it handicaps non-minorities at the expense of any minorities, qualified or not. Let me unpack that first sentence. [...]
Bookworm on May 22 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet A few days ago, I posited that Obama might have come up with the faux Kenyan identity because, in 1979, when he was graduating from high school, the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke had done away with affirmative action. (Universities eventually developed workarounds, but those didn’t exist [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2012 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education
Tweet Barack Obama has kept carefully hidden all of his college records. Many of us have assumed that this secrecy is because those papers show that he took nothing but Leftist Mickey Mouse classes and ended up with lousy grades. Now that we know that Obama marketed himself to publishers as a Kenyan, though, we’re [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, California, Race
Tweet Jerry Brown has nominated Teveia Barnes to be the new commissioner for California’s Department of Financial Institutions. This means that she is the ultimate regulatory authority for more than 300 California-chartered banks and other financial institutions. Barnes has an impressive resume, including a lengthy stint as associate general counsel and senior vice president at [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2012 | Filed under: Media matters, Military
Tweet One of the many blessings of our American military is that it’s a Constitutional military that has as its Commander in Chief a civilian elected by the American public. (Although history has shown, fairly recently in fact, that the American public sometimes elects bad CinCs.) Because the elected CinC is frequently someone without military [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I just returned from seeing Disney’s latest release, The Princess and the Frog. Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight. The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful. When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the audience emits a rapturous [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
Tweet When I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their ills. It was only [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education
Tweet Jennifer Rubin has a very good post today about the reasons that the “smart” Obama may be struggling so mightily to be a good president. She offers three basic reasons that may explain Obama’s ineptitude, whether it touches economics, diplomacy, or national security: First, the punditocracy confused credentials with knowledge or smarts. [snip] Second, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 11 2009 | Filed under: Education, Political correctness, Race
Tweet I remain absolutely convinced that Obama, the boy genius of the left, is a product of affirmative action who is hiding his academic record because it is dismal. If it weren’t dismal, he’d be showing it off. Frankly, though, after thirty years of affirmative action, we expected nothing more from our academic institutions. That’s [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet The National Science Foundation describes itself as follows: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…” With an annual budget of about $6.06 billion, we are the funding [...]
Bookworm on Jun 08 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet From the teleprompter, that is. The guy’s oratorical skills decline rapidly without a script, don’t they? He makes Dan Quayle look like the prodigy of extemporaneous speaking. Clearly, this guy needs a little less blind adulation, and a little more time at Toastmasters. I have said all along that Obama is not as smart [...]
Bookworm on Mar 21 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Government
Tweet I found myself in the car yesterday afternoon listening for perhaps the 30th time to an episode of Avatar being played on the car DVD. I happen to think that Avatar is a rather unusually good kids’ show. Since this was routine car pooling, with the same passel of tired and cranky kids getting [...]
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