Affirmative Action/Quotas/Preferences

We're told that we don't have enough students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs. In fact that's one of the justifications for importing more foreigners into these fields.

Yet, if Obama wins reelection, the federal government may be limiting the main source of STEM students - American males.

You would think that in a free country, people could study what they want. But, apparently that won't be the case for STEM students in Obama Term II. It sounds rather totalitarian.

Matthew Richer's article Like Father, Like Son—Betraying The GOP Base Is A Romney Family Tradition goes into detail about the  record of George Romney, father of Mitt, and Governor of Michigan in the 1960s. I've found more material:b

Affirmative Action - Achilles Heel for Obama Campaign?

In a very enterprising piece of journalism, Andrew Miga of Associated Press has produced the most encouraging news yet about Mitt Romney (probably unintentionally):

Ann Coulter On Elizabeth Warren:

Elizabeth Warren Dances With Lies, May 9, 2012

Dave Weigel writes in Slate:

We have recently learned that Professor Elizabeth Warren has been describing herself as both a “Native American” and “minority” for several years. She claims that she was unaware that such descriptions appeared in her faculty biographies at Harvard Law School, but that is a difficult sell.

From John Rosenberg at the Discriminations blog:

“Affirmative Action” Turns 51

4 March 2012

The NYT has a long article, To Be Black at Stuyvesant High, on a young heroine of diversity, Rudi-Ann Miller, wh

We little citizens are supposed to celebrate New Year’s Day, but in backwards Mexifornia, that’s the date when the bad new laws go into effect. So the holiday also has a strong batten-down-the-hatches aspect.

One of the worst concoctions from Sacramento this year is the law that prohibits the impounding of cars driven by unlicensed drivers. It was enacted in October to make life easier for illegal aliens.