June 18, 2009

Police In Britain Stopping, Searching Random Whites "Just To Balance Racial Statistics"

Clayton Cramer describes this as being like "a really bad Monty Python skit"

He writes

The British police were given sweeping new powers to deal with terrorism a while back--including the ability to stop people in certain designated areas without probable cause for search. The problem was that because the left runs British policing, they apparently decided that it would be unfair to disproportionately stop people based on racial profiling.

A Tactical Suggestion For The Sotomayor Hearings

When it comes to racial preferences, Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor are ideological twins, although most Americans don't realize it yet. Unlike the master politician, however, Sotomayor tends to rub people the wrong way. Still, the Republican Senators are highly unlikely to be able to stop Sotomayor. And it's not clear that they should want to, since once on the Court, the mediocre and abrasive Sotomayor is unlikely to evolve into a William Brennan-like master backstage manipulator of the other Justices.

Immigration Scepticism to be a Hate Crime

Tracking the Totalitarian Left’s effort to sneak through the Hate Crime Bill is difficult, even with the wonderful Google Alert system.

Children Abandoned In US By Deported Parents Sue Over Deportation

Sob stories with lawyers--oh my!

This ploy is another escalation of the emotion-fraught amnesty tour, led by Rep Luis Gutierrez who prowled the whole country giving speeches at churches, preaching the open-borders message. A big part of the road show was tearful kiddies giving testimony of their sadness because of dad's deportation (or even just the fear that someone in the family might be deported someday).

"Drive without insurance? We used to..."

The auto industry journalist Eric Peters raises the above interesting question on his website Eric Peters Autos:

Updated: Obama's Financial Regulation Proposal

Everybody has an opinion on Obama's proposal for revamping financial regulation. I've been busy so I have no idea what's in the plan, so I don't have an opinion.

Insider's Explanation Of Racial Quotas At Naval Academy

Here's a strikingly detailed explanation of the U.S. Naval Academy's racial quota system for admissions by an English prof at Annapolis who serves on the school's Admissions Board. It's rare for an insider to spill the beans about how quotas work this explicitly.

A Mississippi Reader Says Even The Lowest-Paying Jobs Are Tough To Get

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06/17/09 - A Missouri African-American Says Conservative Blacks Are Skeptical About Sonia

From: John Preston (e-mail him)