Free Republic

In what is likely an unconstitutional state action seemingly calculated to ensure that the purple state of Virginia goes blue in the November election, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D.) signed an order on Friday restoring the voting rights of 206,000 ex-felons in Virginia, including those convicted of murder, armed robbery, rape, sexual assault, and other violent crimes. The order also restores their right to sit on a jury, become a notary, and even serve in elected office. McAuliffe believes that ex-felons can be trusted to make decisions in the ballot booth and the jury box but apparently not to own a...

Trump and Affirmative Action by ROGER CLEGG March 11, 2016. One addendum to David French’s post on the Michelle Fields matter: She was asking Mr. Trump about his stance on affirmative action, and rightly so. Despite his anti-p.c. reputation, Mr. Trump is on record this campaign as saying that he is “fine with affirmative action,” and he criticized Justice Scalia for raising the “mismatch” point at oral argument in the Fisher v. University of Texas case.

Does Education Make Black People Crazy? By Roger Clegg FrontPageMagazine.com | October 20, 2003 The only obstacle to the continuing amelioration of racial relations in the United States is black culture; only blacks can improve black culture; but well-educated blacks, W.E.B. Du Bois’s “talented tenth,” the group that might be expected to lead this improvement, are, unfortunately, crazy. Of course, I exaggerate. There is, for starters, no such thing as “black culture.” African Americans are a heterogeneous group. Most are sober, law-abiding, hard-working, God-fearing. And there are plenty of nonblacks—whites, Latinos, Asians, American Indians—who are strung out, lawbreaking, lazy thugs....

<p>Last Wednesday, the Bush administration sent to Congress its proposed reauthorization of the federal highway bill, with the ungainly title of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003 (SAFETEA). Unfortunately, among the things it reauthorizes is the use of contracting and subcontracting preferences based on race, ethnicity and sex.</p>