Affirmative Action/Quotas/Preferences

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Re: Stand With Rand—Or Fall With Paul? His Awful, Stupid, Hispandering Speech Shows He’s Really Part Of Conservatism Inc.’s Cheap Labor Racket

Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com writes

“NYFD made written test impossible to fail, but diversity recruits in Academy can’t meet physical standards either.” [Ted Frank/PoL]

Here's the debate in the New York Times on Ron Unz's research suggesting Ivy League colleges keep Asian numbers down and Jewish numbers up:

Remember those all old commercials for LifeCall, where an old woman has fallen to the floor and hilarious quips, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up?”

Detroit firefighters don't have toilet paper. (Pictured right, a white firefighter.)

Libertarian Joanne Skousen has a point about Romney's low tax rate that most people miss—Romney doesn't have a job. This is his savings, his retirement income that he he's paying tax on.

Only 14 Percent?

by Jo Ann Skousen  |  Posted October 20, 2012

In Steve Sailer's Blackface in Berlin item below, playwright Bruce Norris  refused to allow his play Clybourne Park to be licensed to German theater company which doesn't have any black actors, and proposed to have the part played by a white actor in makeup.

From Friday's NYT, a good example of the current conventional wisdom about The Gap: few African-Americans do well enough in math to get into Stuyvesant High School because their mothers didn't teach them enough English words (unlike, presumably, all those Stuyvesant students whose mothers don't speak English at all).

Before a Test, a Poverty of Words 

By GINIA BELLAFANTE 

Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys? 

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Dr. Norm Matloff writes to his email list: