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We’ll soon have 150,000 U.S. troops stuck in the ever-expanding Iraqi quagmire, a number that will probably grow even larger before Iraq holds elections presently scheduled for the end of January ’05. Maintaining such a force is a logistical and personnel nightmare for every grunt in Iraq. And according to several Pentagon number crunchers, it’s also driving the top brass bonkers. Meanwhile the insurgents continue cutting our supply lines and whacking our fighting platoons and supporters, who attrit daily as soldiers and Marines fall to enemy shots, sickness or accidents. Empty platoons lose fights, so these casualties have to be...

Did Juan Williams even graduate high school? He sounds stupid, uniformed, and spews fictionous garbage. He must be an intern at FOX, I can't imagine any news org paying him for that.

May 15, 2004 Letters Diversity So, the entire Florida Bar is off on the road to diversity. Reminds me of the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby movies of comedic knights — errant on their way to some exotic location, except, of course, that Bob and Bing were a lot funnier than The Florida Bar, and had a better idea of where they were going. The Florida Bar leadership has been in lock-step, tooting its diversity horns and banging its diversity drums for the last 20 years, and the parade has gone nowhere. So, that having failed, they have resolved to...

If you want to be a delegate to the Democratic Party's national convention this summer — it might help to be gay. It appears the Democratic Party has a quota system for delegates to this summer's convention. State Democratic parties in 15 states and Puerto Rico are requiring that a specific number of their delegates be homosexual, bisexual or transgender. The requirement seems to be part of an effort by Democrats to aggressively court homosexuals and their money. Bob Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women for America , said in a time when the nation...

Former Notre Dame great Paul Hornung may have landed in some hot water when discussing how the Irish can improve their football fortunes. Hornung with his 1956 Heisman Trophy. Hornung told Detroit's AM-1270 The Sports Station (an ESPN radio affiliate) on Tuesday that Notre Dame must ease up on its academic restrictions because "We gotta get the black athlete," he said. "We must get the black athlete if we're going to compete." Hornung said that Notre Dame's schedule factors into his opinion. "You can't play that type of schedule," Hornung said. "We're playing eight bowl teams next year ... and...

Did UC's low-SAT admissions dodge affirmative action ban? By Michelle Maitre and William Brand, STAFF WRITERS BERKELEY -- Critics on the University of California Board of Regents and around the state have been asking hard questions about the fairness of admission policies at prestigious UC Berkeley. The critics charge that Berkeley's admissions policy, which weighs personal hardship and extra-curricular achievement alongside academic prowess, has let underqualified students into the internationally famous campus. The question also has reignited a lingering debate over whether the process has provided a back-door way to skirt a ban on affirmative action. An analysis of admissions...

Bush claims victory in diversity Gov. Jeb Bush credits his One Florida program for raising enrollment among minority students in Florida colleges. By ANITA KUMAR, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday had a message for critics of his ban on racial preferences in university admissions. Told you so. Florida universities this year saw the biggest percentage increase in freshmen minority enrollment since Bush's One Florida plan took effect three years ago, new figures show. It was a slight increase - less than 1 percentage point - but it was enough to allow Bush...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - America's country music scene isn't exactly known for its gay artists, but a colorful pack of wanna-be stars pulled out their best rustic twangs and wailing guitars on Thursday to try to change all that.Scores of country music hopefuls auditioned in New York for what is being billed as a television show to pick an openly gay country music star from about 50 contestants.The musicians -- most of whom wore jeans and spit-polished boots -- wailed through Willie Nelson songs, crooned like Lyle Lovett and belted out ballads like Garth Brooks.Livening up the day was The...

<p>Here's the thing about the human heart: You can't legislate it. You can't make laws requiring people to like broccoli. You can't force people into theaters to see "Gigli."</p> <p>And it's the reason the NFL's minority hiring policy is seriously flawed.</p>

Re-Segregating the ClassroomBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | July 30, 2003                                       PONTEFICATIONSTWO MORE SCHOOLS HAVE JUST BECOME BATTLEGROUNDS in America’s culture war, both over issues of segregation and separatism. In Oberlin, Ohio, southwest of Cleveland, activists are outraged that scheduling requirements assigned a white teacher to lead local high school classes in black history.“The message is that we are not concerned about the importance of your historical background,” says A.G. Miller, an associate professor of American and “African religious history” – voodoo history? – at Leftily-trendy nearby Oberlin College, racially integrated from its opening day in 1833.“When you talk about slavery,...

IBM Sponsors Gay Chamber of Commerce The nation's first National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce or NGLCC, said Thursday they will partner with IBM to launch a diversity development and procurement program to bring technology opportunities to GLBT-owned companies. The program, says NGLCC, was inspired by the National Minority Supplier Development Council, or NMSDC, a certifying body for minority owned businesses, which creates development and procurement opportunities with major corporations. "Since GLBT owned businesses do not qualify as minority businesses under NMSDC guidelines, tremendous financial opportunities are forfeited," said NGLCC's co-founder Chance Mitchell. IBM will be the founding corporate...

Did not take long, since the SUPREME's decision, to go on the offensive re: DIVERSITY and AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. Jobs at the exclusion of people and races we don't like. See Monster.com's new 'DIVERSITY' career section - http://diversity.monster.com/ - of course at the exclusion of white / straight people. For example: CAREER ADVISE FOR YOU: African Americans American Indians Asian Americans Gays/Lesbians Hispanics/Latinos Older Workers Veterans/Military Transition Women Workers with Disabilities And, of course, job postings /searches for companies wishing to exclude types of races, sexes at the alter of the Diversity Gods.

<p>The Supreme Court will soon rule in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases. However the court decides, the debate over race-based admissions is sure to intensify. And so will the discussion of other kinds of college preferences, particularly the boost many schools give to the children (and grandchildren) of alumni, or "legacies."</p>

"Quota." Announcing his opposition to affirmative action policies at the University of Michigan, President Bush used that word several times to describe those policies. The president ought to be ashamed. Michigan's policies are nothing of the sort, and he knows that. Bush used the word "quota" because polls have consistently shown that it inflames and unsettles most Americans, conjuring up blatant unfairness and driving away support for any program so described. The president's supporters paint a portrait of him as a man of honor and integrity who lives and dies by principle, but that is wishful thinking -- as his...

HILL OF BEANS New York Press By Christopher Caldwell January, 2003 - Volume 16, Issue 4 No Action Last week, President Bush submitted two amicus curiae briefs to the Supreme Court, regarding the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program. The controversial admissions program ranks applicants on a 150-point scale, and awards a 20-point "bonus" right off the bat to blacks and selected other minorities. The admissions regime once had two tracks–one for whites and one for targeted minorities–and it protected those minorities from direct competition with the wider pool. The Bush administration, quite correctly, held that this made it a...

Today our nation comes together as one family to celebrate the life and the work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., America's greatest human rights advocate of the 20th century. King sacrificed his life to tear down the political, legal, economic and social walls that divide us. Because of his sacrifice, our nation and our world are not the same as they were 30 years ago. The United States has become the most diverse, the most tolerant and the most accepting nation in the world. In the 35 years since King's death, we have made great strides toward his...

<p>In an announcement yesterday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Mr. Bush said the Michigan admission policy amounts "to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes prospective students, based solely on their race."</p> <p>The Supreme Court will review in March a lawsuit brought by three white students who say they were unconstitutionally kept out of the University of Michigan and its law school because it gave preferential treatment to minority applicants so that it could have a racially diverse student body.</p>

<p>Is it time to end affirmative action and racial preferences?</p>

Cant has become the norm in discussions of any issue involving race or ethnicity. However, a new book by JWR's Linda Chavez -- a memoir of her own remarkable life -- should make it inescapably clear what counterproductive and even vile things have been going on in the name of racial betterment. The book is titled "An Unlikely Conservative," a title based on Ms. Chavez's poverty-stricken childhood and her initial role as an activist on the political left. The daughter of an Irish mother and a Mexican American father, Linda Chavez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1947. A...

Norway sets 40% female quota for boardrooms Companies insist too few qualified women are available to fill posts Andrew Osborn in Oslo Thursday August 1, 2002 The Guardian Blazing a trail for women's rights, egalitarian Norway is about to become the first country in the world to insist on female quotas for company boardrooms. In a decree that has angered employer organisations and meritocratic-minded businesswomen, the government has ordered firms to ensure that at least 40% of their board members are women. State-owned firms have just 12 months to comply; the country's 650 public companies have three years. If they...