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27 May 2010, 1:54 pm
I guess I won the lottery ... or at least the census lottery. Too bad the prize is that I have to fill out the American Community Survey--with its 28 questions on housing and 48 questions on each resident. It is essentially what used to be called the Long Version of the Census. Some of these questions appear to be unlikely to generate accurate information. For example, I am asked about my earnings (broken down into categories from wages to welfare) over the last 12 months. The survey makes it clear… [read post]
5 Aug 2007, 7:06 pm
I'm back from spending a month in our nation's capital. One thing I noticed in Washington is -- get ready -- Washingtonians talk about politics a lot. I guess that 's not a keen insight, but what is surprising to me is that they don't seem to be all that ...well ... insightful about it (or least not the ones I spoke with). I stopped counting how many people tried to convince me that Hillary Clinton can never be elected President, so conservatives… [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 12:04 pm
While listening to a Presbyterian minister give (an otherwise well-done) sermon about the Book of Ruth, I was surprised to hear him refer to the date as "B.C.E." What ever happened to B.C.? I'm told that B.C.E. can stand for "Before Christ's Era" rather than "Before the Common Era," but that strikes me as a lame effort to have it both ways. The use of "B.C.E." has its place, but is the… [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 9:31 pm
Kitty Carlisle died yesterday at the age of 96. I don't recall ever seeing her sing, dance or act. That was all before my time. The Kitty Carlisle I knew was the panelist on the To Tell the Truth show in the late 1960s (or was it the early 1970s?). Smart. Clever. Charming. Even elegant. I liked her so much I named my cat Kitty Carlisle. Purr. [read post]
11 Dec 2006, 8:23 pm
Here's an interesting tidbit about the Akaka Bill: The Office of Hawaiian Affairs spent over $2 million lobbying Congress for it. More proof that money can't buy everything.... ((For more of my commentary on the Akaka Bill see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. No, of course, I didn't get paid for it.)) [read post]
10 Dec 2006, 10:33 am
I grew up at Truro Church in Fairfax, Virginia. I was baptized and later confirmed there. I've probably sung every hymn in the hymnal--many of them hundreds of times. "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God" is still one of my favorites (as my long-suffering neighbors here in San Diego can probably attest). Yes, I know it's just a chapel hymn, but grown-ups are allowed to love chapel hymns too. Truro Church has a long history--from colonial times to the… [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 5:07 am
President Trump is considering a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the first African-American world heavyweight champion boxer (1908-1915). The flamboyant Johnson was convicted of violating the White Slave Traffic Act (otherwise known as the Mann Act), which prohibited transporting women over state lines for an "immoral purpose." Johnson's crime was essentially that he had white girlfriends, and he liked to flaunt both them and his wealth. I hope Trump pardons him. In 2016, the U.S.… [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 10:35 am
the RC bloggers had the chance to have dinner with Barone at the lovely home of the lovely Professor Gail [read post]
3 May 2010, 8:52 pm
Bob Lerner was the Director of the Office of Civil Rights Evaluation at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. That means he was the Commission's data cruncher. Make that our beloved data cruncher. Bob died on Friday at the age of 56. We are in mourning over the loss of this wise and good-humored man. My friend Steve Balch, Chairman of the National Association of Scholars, wrote this about Bob (who was an NAS member): "Robert Lerner, who passed away on Friday, was an NAS original. Original… [read post]
21 Jul 2007, 9:02 pm
Two years ago, a study claiming (falsely) that half of all bankruptices are caused by illness or injury received front-page treatment in newspapers all across the country. Anyone reading the fine print, however, learned that, among numerous other tricks, the study included "uncontrolled gambling" as a medical cause. The whole thing was timed to de-rail some much-needed bankruptcy reform, but (fortunately for the cause of truth) it failed in that endeavor. On… [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 11:13 am
Our condolences go out to Leonard and Sally Leo on the death of their daughter Margaret. She was not yet 15. Words fail me on these occasions. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 3:53 pm
The InsideHigherEd reports Lee Bollinger's recent thoughts on race-based admissions and the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative:Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia's president, said he was worried about another admissions issue. "I'm becoming more pessimistic about the survival of affirmative action in this country," said Bollinger, who in his previous position as president of the University of Michigan led that institution's fight to the Supreme Court to affirm the right of… [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 5:44 pm
I don't pretend to have all the answers about what to do in Iraq, but I thought this little blurb by my friend Jeff Jacoby was worthy of note (as well as topical in its quotation of Gerald Ford):"Senator Edward Kennedy likes to label Iraq 'George Bush's Vietnam,' as he did last week when he introduced legislation to give Congress the final say on troop levels in Iraq. "Bush played no role in the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia to the Communists in 1975, of course.… [read post]
26 Nov 2006, 9:58 pm
"Give the lady what she wants."--Marshall Field "The lady must be crazy if she doesn't want what we tell her she wants."--Federated Department Stores, Inc. Well perhaps Federated didn't state it quite that baldly, but that's been the upshot of its public relations strategy since its disastrous sales in October. We're told that Macy's is just as good as Marshall Field's and that we're just being obstinate for refusing to buy. It's our… [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 4:32 am
[Grutter deference never made any sense. ] As you probably know, the Supreme Court has agreed to review Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and its companion case, Students for Fair Admissions v. North Carolina. Arguments will likely be heard in October. Both cases concern race-preferential admissions policies. The Harvard case looks at the treatment of Asian Americans in particular. Am I being a naive Charlie Brown in thinking that Lucy won't pull the football away this time? … [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 9:06 am
via www.city-journal.org And now, thanks to Gail Heriot (who I hope gets a great job in the Trump administration [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 6:55 am
via www.wsj.com This piece by Gail Heriot, my good friend and colleague here at my small but undeniably [read post]
6 Sep 2005, 4:37 pm
for the American Way, a nationally known advocacy group opposing the Roberts nomination, Professor Gail [read post]
6 Sep 2005, 4:37 pm
for the American Way, a nationally known advocacy group opposing the Roberts nomination, Professor Gail [read post]
29 Jul 2018, 7:22 pm
via reason.com By my distinguished colleague Gail Heriot. [read post]
