Very good analysis on the decision of the Wake County school baords decision to abandon a volutary intergration problem, and the ongoing problem of schools being both segregated and unequal that it reflects.
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I'm transitioning from teaching film to comics in my unfortunately named "Slow Horror" course tomorrow and so I'm preparing to introduce my students to comic conventions using Robert Kirkman's The.
Yglesias notes that, for the first time in nearly a half century, an Ohio governor appointed an all-white cabinet. It should be unnecessary to point out that, in 2011, a.
Mike Konczal has a nice catch from this Arnold Kling post: However, the %&*#^ lawyers for the borrower come in and claim standing to challenge the foreclosure on the grounds that the foreclosure notice was sent by someone who has not properly documented that he...
Shorter House Republicans: "It's outrageous that insurance companies would be expected to provide you with medical care in exchange for your money. People value the freedom to have their money.
The conservative reaction to Thursday's memorial service betrays both their myopia and desperation. From the opening prayer -- some "Indian tribal thing" according to Powerline's Paul Mirengoff -- to the.
Pittsburgh (-3) over Baltimore: I wish it weren't so, too, but the Steelers have a major edge as well as a major asshole at QB, are home, and it's not like the Ravens have a substantially superior defense. Green Bay (+1) over Atlanta: Frankly, part...
"Let's look it up on that poster, then, Mom. I might be wrong about TV, but I'm pretty sure children do have the right to set their own bedtime." Nope..
From an editorial at the Washington Times: Mrs. Palin is well within her rights to feel persecuted. Since the Saturday bloodbath, members of the liberal commentariat have spoken in a.
Jack Cashill -- the man who claims his literary sensibilities rival those of a latter-day Auerbach -- proves yet again, again, to have problems being intellectually honest. In "Obama Does Best When He Says Nothing," Cashill compares the President to "Chauncey Gardiner, [who] is the...
I remember when I used to joke about Republicans bringing back Hammer v.Dagenhart. [Update: more explanation here.] Senator Mike Lee provides the punchline himself. It's worth mentioning here that, Lee's claims.
To follow up on Greenwald's response to William Galston's call to make more people subject to involuntary civil confinement, it's worth discussing the case in which the Supreme Court held.