Unsurprisingly, the Ricci Case has gotten very little discussion on the NVS. But I think the nature of the case and the glaring injustice speaks for itself. The only way you can justify what the original ruling in favor of the City of New Haven is by saying that different races being held to different standards for being good firemen is the right thing to do.

I actually often sympathize with liberals when they argue that tests are biased. After all, we are taught that all men are...

The NY Times Finally has an Article on Bush's role in the Subprime Meltdown through his encouraging minority housing, which ultimately led to many people buying houses they couldn't really afford.

White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire

On a blog I usually frequent, mention was made that the press is avoiding the fact that it was Bush's desire to increase housing for minorities by campaigning strongly for lending with zero down payments that in part gave people houses that they didn't have the earning power to maintain.

Why hasn't the press trumpeted this error on the part of Bush? The obvious reason is that the conservative press is trying to protect a bad president, while the liberal press, who are supposed to...

The Economics of President Obama

In a democracy, politicians that try to be popular or to remain in office need to track public sentiment to some degree. Obama was to some degree rewarded by the current economic atmosphere, a point I will return to later in this piece. Obama has already announced that he supports a redistributive government with the goal of supporting the poor. The benefits, demerits and limits of redistributing income are all well known to economists.
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Obama as a Moderate Liberal?

Obama is a liberal - no one doubts or denies this. In fact, when I first studied Obama, this was my major concern – I felt that his liberalism was of the religious variety because I could not see how it had been tempered by the failures of his political acts to effect radical change. What lasting tangible effects, negative or positive, had Obama’s acts had on improving the welfare of Black people in his communities? And was he trying to implement those...