The U.S. Supreme Court, as I’m sure you all know by now, upheld Michigan’s ban on affirmative action yesterday in a 6-2 decision, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting. (Elena Kagan, recused herself, presumably due to the fact that she was involved in the case prior to joining the Supreme Court, during […]
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Affirmative Action is dead in the United States… Now what?
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Detroit, Michigan Also tagged achievement gap, affirmative action, Arizona, Bill Schuette, California, Civil Right Act, college, college admissions, conservative legislation, dissent, diversity, Elena Kagan, Florida, higher education, KKK, Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Proposition 2, racism, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Schuette v. BAMN, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Ted Spencer, the conservative agenda, University of Michigan, Ward Connerly, Wisconsin 65 Comments
Low paying job opportunity at MarkMaynard.com
It’s nothing terribly ambitious, but there are a few technical things that I’d like to do to make this site better. I’ve got a list of about ten items. I don’t think that any of it is too complicated, but – and it’s with some degree of shame that I say this – it’s all […]
Posted in Ideas, Mark's Life, Other, Special Projects, Ypsilanti Also tagged Capri Sun, Charlie Sheen, cheese money, exciting career opportunities, internships, Mark's big ideas, OCD blogger, posts where it becomes obvious that Mark is more like our grandfathers than he's like us, Red Bull, the future of this site, WordPress 13 Comments
Rand Paul: lunch counter Libertarian
By now, you’ve no doubt heard that, yesterday, Ron Paul’s son, Rand Paul, who just won the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky, said that he would like to live in a world where segregated lunch counters were allowed. And, I’m not exaggerating. Paul, a Libertarian purist, said that, although he detests racism, he feels that […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Politics Also tagged blockbusting, Department of Education, discrimination, Hitler, Jim Clyburn, Kentucky, Libertarianism, Nazi analogies, Newt Gingrich, Obama is a Socialist, Rachel Maddow, Rand Paul, Ron Paul, secular socialist left, segregation, Stalin, Ta-Nehisi Coates 61 Comments