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17 May 2007, 11:39 am
By now, you may have heard that Doe v. Kamehameha Schools, for which a petition for certiorari had been pending in the Supreme Court, has settled. I'm disappointed, since I believed there was a good chance that the Court would take the case. Now opponents of Hawaii's bizarre racial politics are back to square one. (Although I suspect it won't take long for a new plaintiff to step up to the plate. The settlement agreement is confidential, but… [read post]
13 May 2007, 7:36 pm
First, you have to pass an exam administered by your competitors, who are very keen on "protecting the public" from the dangers of poorly designed floral arrangements. The passage rate is only about 46%, and the exam will cost you $150. Any idiot knows who is really being protected here. Louisiana ought to be ashamed. [read post]
28 Mar 2007, 5:41 pm
As many of you know, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer and others are working on reviving the ERA. The ill-fated proposal-which stated that "[e]quality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"-was adopted by Congress in 1972 and ratified shortly thereafter by 35 of the 38 states needed. Five of those states later withdrew their ratification. When the 1979 deadline for ratification was about to expire, Congress extended… [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 8:00 pm
Good grief. Albertson's employees have apparently voted to go on strike--again. After the 2003 Southern California grocery strike (involving Albertson's, Von's and Ralph's), both union and management lost big. The stores lost market share to Costco and Wal Mart, and employees found themselves replaced by self check out lines. Here is a comment that I wrote during the last strike. It goes double now:I confess that I do… [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 10:09 pm
I seem to be out of step with modern sensibilities again. I've received a number of earnest e-mails lately from various authorities here on campus about the school's "brand." Not its reputation, mind you, its brand. This unhappy choice of words conjures up visions of the University of San Diego as a toothpaste tube. Or a box of cereal. Evidently, USD has a new logo. That's no big deal ... or so I thought. But it turns out some regard it… [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 12:14 am
Last year, the Bush Administration finally put the Akaka Bill in its well-deserved grave by announcing that the President would veto the bill if it passed. But in Washington, nothing ever stays dead .... Peter Kirsanow reports on National Review Online that Senator Akaka has now re-introduced the bill. Calling it "[t]he worst piece of legislation ever analyzed by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights," Commissioner Kirsanow obviously isn't pleased. Neither… [read post]
8 Jan 2007, 9:55 pm
Appropos of nothing in particular: Loyal readers with superhuman memories may recall that I blogged about the Electoral College a month or two before the 2004 elections. (Here, here, and here.) Back then, I was worried that the Electoral College tends to encourage pork-barrel spending, since it causes candidates to pay inordinate attention to battleground states and ignore the states that are locked up. (Think steel tariffs for Pennsylvania, Medicare drug benefits for retired… [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm
The condition itself didn’t go away [Freakonomics via Ira Stoll] Gail Heriot on affirmative [read post]
11 Nov 2019, 2:58 am
” [Gail Heriot] Survey finds significant rise in number of teachers attacked by students [Hans [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 3:01 am
disparate impact, litigation and regulatory reform, and civil service reform, including participants like Gail [read post]
10 Aug 2018, 3:01 am
Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law” [Gail [read post]
4 May 2018, 2:58 am
; [Robby Soave, Reason] “School Discipline: Don’t Make a Federal Case Out of It” [Gail [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 2:58 am
Federalist Society panel with Gail Heriot, Kenneth Marcus, Theodore Shaw, Timothy Taylor, moderated by [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 4:57 pm
Like Mike, I was interested to see John Tierney's Social Scientist Sees Bias Within in the New York Times. Writes Tierney: Some of the world's pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting. Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's conference, where psychologists discuss their research on racial prejudice, homophobia, sexism, stereotype threat and unconscious bias against minorities. But… [read post]
15 Jun 2010, 6:28 pm
Yesterday's earthquake was centered in Ocotillo, California in Imperial County. It measured 5.7 and was felt both here in San Diego and in Los Angeles. It apparently gave Tom a bit of a start. Me too. A 5.7 is a respectable earthquake. But relative to the quake centered in Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California on Easter Day, which was a 7.2, it was small potatoes. (I hid under the table and prayed during that one.) What's interesting is the sheer number of earthquakes we've been having… [read post]
3 May 2018, 5:06 am
The transgender bathroom issue hasn't disappeared. It's just that we don't hear about it as much since the Obama-era "Dear Colleague Letter" has been withdrawn and the highest-profile case—Gloucester County School Board v. G.G.—has sunk from view. But just last week the Supreme Court of Missouri heard oral argument in R.M.A. v. Blue Springs R-IV School District. This case relies at least in part on state law (specifically on Missouri's Human Rights Act). The… [read post]
23 May 2010, 10:08 am
The Hawaiian Republican Party is no doubt excited that Hawaiian voters have decided to send Charles Djou to the U.S. House of Representatives. Hawaiians are not usually big Republicans. But since Hawaii does not hold a run-off when it holds a special election, there is less here than meets the eye. Djou won the election with a little under 40% of the vote. The rest of the vote was split between two Democrats--Ed Case (28%) and Colleen Hanabusa (31%). The big news is that Hawaiians voted resoundingly… [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 1:23 pm
Candace de Russy, my colleague on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars, recently posted on the Minding the Campus web site. I am quoting her post in its entirety: "Recently, a colleague forwarded to me a copy of an exam from an introductory sociology class found lying in a room at a public college in the east. It was graded 100%. The exam deserves to be quoted at length, as parts of it are virtually indistinguishable from the old Soviet agitprop of the Fifties:… [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 11:52 pm
Here's a not-so-heartwarming story. Mr. & Mrs. Valentine lived in a small Mississippi town where he worked as a plumber and she worked for a wealthy man named Fitch. When Mr. Valentine began to suspect his wife of infidelity, she denied it, but a DNA test showed that Mr. Fitch was indeed the father of her baby. Mr. & Mrs. Valentine divorced, and she married Mr. Fitch, who is said to be worth $22 million. Her standard of living took a… [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 5:55 pm
Here's a confession that loyal Right Coast readers might not expect: I was a volunteer for the McGovern campaign in 1972. (It would please me to believe that some of you are thinking that I'm too young to have been around in 1972, but alas, time is marching by rather quickly these days. At least I can say that I was only 14 years old when I first pounded the pavement for the illustrious man from South Dakota.) I was happy to read that former campaign staff members… [read post]
