Free Republic

In exactly three weeks, like a swarm of locusts, the national Democratic Party will descend on Boston. As a long-time resident of the Commonwealth, I say: What better place than Massachusetts for the party of plunder, perversion and patriot-bashing to hold its 2004 nominating convention, and not just because our junior Senator – John Fraud Kerry – is its putative nominee. High taxes, gargantuan government, extravagant spending, an imperial judiciary and weird social experiments are the Democrats’ weapons of Mass destruction. All were field-tested in the Bay State. During the Reagan years, then-Secretary of State James Baker was preparing for...

Affirmative action bake sales, Wellesley College, the Supreme Court, and the increasing failure of America's public schools to effectively teach students: what do they all have in common? Anyone who's read Peter Wood's excellent book Diversity: The Invention of a Concept could easily answer that one -- as could shrewd guessers in today's continuing climate of political correctness. The common theme is diversity, or, as Wood notated it throughout his book, diversity. At first this italicization might seem like a contrivance aimed at highlighting an artificial distinction, but by the end most readers will recognize and agree with the necessity...