Posted in education, libertarianism, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged academia, affirmative action, anti-discrimination, bias, christina sommers, freedom, gender, politics, quotas, research, science, sommers, title ix, women on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a link to an article by Christina Sommers in which she talks about gender politics, affirmative action in higher education and recent, extremely worrying developments. Read the whole article, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
(Link via The Volokh conspiracy)
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“I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.”
-Barack Obama, 2002, opposing the impending war in Iraq.
Update: Read the full text of this extraordinary speech here.
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Posted in libertarianism, tagged crime, drug, drug clock, drugs, government, policy, spending, United States, violence, war on drugs on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
As dumb wars go, this is the dumbest of them all. It involves more money than is spent on food programs, science or technology. It arrests about two million people (that’s almost 1 percent of the population) every year, most of them small users. It is responsible for about a quarter of the current inmate population in the United [...]
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