July 9, 2009

Kathy Shaidle On Why Minority Outreach Is Doomed To Failure

Kathy Shaidle was making a slightly different point but it also applies to why blacks and Mexicans are unlikely to ever vote Republican in large numbers:

Conservative talk a lot about taxes. But nearly half of Americans don't pay income tax anyhow.

What Else We Need

Another thing we need is more visual input, in the spirit of Robert Stacy McCain's Rule 5. For example, when I wrote

Need More Shorter Blogs

For example, instead of Steve Sailer's excellent blog on Walter Kirn's  NYT article endorsing racial preferences for minorities like  the ones affecting New Haven's Frank Ricci, we could have pared it down to this paragraph:

NYT: Emily Bazelon interviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sonia Sotomayor!

Although there are still pockets of injustice in America, such as those blue collar families in the New Haven area who keep minorities down by encouraging and instructing their own sons in the study of how best to rescue people from burning buildings, it's heart-warming to see that a complete outsider like Emily Bazelon can become the MainStream Media's all-purpose Supreme Court oracle, despite her suffering from such unfair hindrances as being a woman, a relative of best-selling fem

UK Judge To Muslim Arsonists:"If You Choose To Live In This Country, You Live By Its Rules"

We already know that freedom of speech in not a value of Islam, and further that its followers often engage in intimidation to shut up dissenting voices. In Britain, three Muslims were sentenced to prison for firebombing an editor's house, whose company was publishing a novel (The Jewel of Medina) based on the life of one of Mohammad's wives.