Yes, it’s a really bad idea to suggest that the way a judge does his job is inevitably determined by his skin color or national origin.  I’m just surprised that people who have long urged that judicial appointments should be made with “diversity” in mind have so quickly come around to this view …. Shame on the Washington Post  — The Washington Post had an editorial criticizing the lawsuit filed recently by Republican leaders of the state legislature against Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe’s recent executive order that restores the right to vote to all felons, no matter their crime. Let’s …

We are supposed to be excited because the Congress has passed, and President Obama has just signed into law, a bill that will get rid of “insulting” words like “Oriental” and “Negro,” changing them to more enlightened terms like “Asian American” and “African American.”  But wouldn’t it have been better if all references to race has just be taken out of the U.S. Code altogether, since the reason they’re in there these days is principally to advance race-based preferences and decision-making by the federal government? *          *          * The Chronicle of Higher Education — which, like it or not is …

That was the reason given by a St. Louis-area public school system for refusing to allow a black student to attend a school that he would have been allowed to go to had he been any other color. This discrimination was justified by a desire to achieve the right racial mix in public schools. So there you have it: Politically correct diversity trumps individual rights and educational opportunity.  Read all about it here. More on Race-Based Decision-Making in Education:  There have been a couple of newspaper pieces in the last week that make the (dubious) case for hiring fewer white teachers:  “Black teachers …

Once upon a time, “juvenile delinquent” was a nice way to say “young criminal.”  As often happens, however, eventually even the euphemism is thought to be too harsh, and so a better one has to be found.  And so one has:  This Obama-administration press release last week talked a lot about “justice-involved youth.”  Then, to top itself, the administration broadened the euphemism to include criminals of all ages, with Attorney General Lynch referring to “justice-involved individuals.”    And then, after that, it continued still further in this vein last week, referring to “justice-involved Veterans.”   After my noting it, the …