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My hero Ward Connerly has finished his term on the University of California’s Board of Regents. I was surprised but pleased to read here that he received a standing ovation at the end of his final Regents meeting.
Fortunately, Connerly will continue to lead the fight against race and gender preferences in government hiring, contracting, and [...]

What others are saying around the ’sphere in commemoration of Martin Luther King Day…
Juliette Ochieng says “Thank you”
Casey Lartigue tackles Dr. King’s legacy and the school-choice angle.
Dawn Eden highlights MLK’s niece Alveda, an outspoken opponent of abortion.
Dustbury on Why This Day Matters
Molotov at Booker Rising on the centrality of Rev. King’s Baptist faith
Michael King muses:
Contrary [...]

My column today discusses the hidden impact that the Armstrong Williams/Dept. of Ed. scandal will have on minority conservatives:
As a result of the Williams/Department of Education payoff, the rhetoric against the rest of us will get even nastier. In the name of “minority outreach,” the Republican education bureaucrats who cooked up their pathetic scheme with [...]

So say nine of the New York Times‘ own employees, who have filed a lawsuit against the paper charging they were subjected to racial and religious discrimination at the paper’s Edison, N.J., printing plant.
According to The Jewish Times, the suit includes complaints that supervisors aimed racial and religious epithets at employees ? or ignored such [...]

Too many black people are dependent on the Democrats for handouts and racial preferences. Black politicians depend on the Bush haters for financial resources enabling them to gain office. Black civil rights organizations are beholden to liberal foundations. The bottom line of all of this is that he who pays the piper calls the tune [...]

Do you know where your kid’s school bus is? In Beantown, city officials want to install GPS tracking devices to make sure unionized drivers aren’t goofing off or endangering schoolchildren. Naturally, the ridiculous labor goons have turned this into a racial issue. The bus drivers are threatening a strike. Carpundit says, “Go for it:”
Yet another [...]

The New York Times editorial board is happy because cardiologists are paying attention to racial differences in responses to pharmacological treatments. The Times encourages the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug aimed at a single racial group–something the FDA has never done before.
Fair enough.
Naturally, the Times can’t leave its readers with the [...]

According to this article, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales is the leading candidate to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General.
This column by Robert Novak, written in January 2003, suggests that Gonzales is no friend of conservatives. An excerpt:
Gonzales’s views on affirmative action became widely known in Washington last year when, at a [...]

Those of you interested in affirmative action won’t want to miss Rick Sander’s forthcoming article in the Stanford Law Review. For the next several days, Sander will be blogging about his article at Eugene Volokh’s site.

This is a must-read.

Here’s an interesting letter from a former Olympic oarsmen, who reports that the international governing body of rowing is trying to diversify the sport by lowering competitive standards for ethnic minorities:
I retired from competition after the 1988 Olympics. But I was vaguely aware that they’ve tightened things up quite a bit since I quit racing, [...]

Asian-American leaders whiners are mad at John Kerry for not paying enough attention to them. Via the San Francisco Chronicle:

Last week, Democrat John Kerry launched $3 million worth of campaign ads targeting Hispanics and African Americans to shore up the minority vote in the presidential race.
On Wednesday, Asian American media leaders complained that the advertising [...]

The front page of this morning’s Washington Post informs us that Kerry is beating Bush among Hispanics by a 2-1 margin. A nightmare for Republicans? Not really. Gore beat Bush by a nearly 2-1 margin in 2000, yet Bush still won (albeit barely). As Marshall Taylor pointed out in comments #2 and #5 [...]

The beautiful and brainy Marie Gryphon, an old Seattle gal pal and Second Amendment sister of mine, has a good piece at FOXNews.com on “The Affirmative Action Myth.” Also be sure to check out this great new group blog, Right on Race, for excellent commentary from my old friend Tom Wood of AADAP and many [...]

Sigh. Another entry for my People’s Republic of Maryland file. According to the Washington Post, the central planners and social engineers on the Montgomery County Council are in a huff because there are not enough minority firefighters. Is this because the libs are discriminating against non-white firefighters? No, it’s because a race-blind hiring and testing [...]

Six years ago, Reagan conservative Reed Davis put his neck on the line in support of a grass-roots initiative to ban government racial preferences in Washington State. As chairman of the local GOP in ultraliberal King County, Davis made the first formal party endorsement of the effort. “We will do everything in our power to [...]