A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
President Gerald R. Ford, Jr., address to a joint session of Congress (August 12, 1974).
July 3 marks the 1947 birthday of Dave Barry (pictured), American columnist and author.
Five years later on the same date, Puerto Rico’s Constitution was approved by the Congress of the United States.
Our leaders, our legislators — they call each other experts, but…
The word “listen” contains the
same letters as the word “silent.”
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress un-tabled the Lee Resolution and voted to sever ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain.
One year later, to the day, Vermont became the first American territory to abolish slavery.
You know who we are talking about: our legislators.
The man
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab (1813), Canto III.
Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
On July 1, 1766, François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, was tortured and beheaded before his body was burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire’s Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
Thus tweeted Gene Wu, District 137’s representative to the Texas legislature.
That was his reaction to yesterday’sSupreme Court decision striking down racial discrimination in picking students for colleges and universities.
He’s a Democrat and in a tricky situation. The case was brought to the High Court by Asian Americans, who have been most discriminated against in college placement. Rep. Wu, himself Asian American, talks up the compensatory racial preference cause.
“Asian Americans have consistently been used as a foil to eliminate Affirmative Action programs which serve to repair centuries of intentional discrimination against Black and Latino AND Asian communities,” he argues. “Having Asian Americans as parties doesn’t make it any less racist.”
Actually, of course, discriminating in favor of “Black and Latino” applicants has hurt Asian Americans’ college placements the most, and provably so. Racial discrimination was the criterion. Not academic achievement, IQ, or ability to pay. Asian Americans were the big losers.
More than whites.
But all Rep. Wu can think about is WHITE SUPREMACY. In all-caps, no less.
He worries not one whit about racial discrimination against Asians!
As absurd as what we used to call “reverse” discrimination is, we can be sure that, after this current ruling, DEI-obsessed administrators will still seek ways to continue their discrimination on the basis of race.
Also being raised? The issue of legacy admissions, rewarding with preferential treatment applicants whose parents and grandparents previously attended the institution. Senator and GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott called for public universities to nix those policies as well. Scott was joined by President Biden and AOC.
Sounds like justice and fairness based on merit is on a roll.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Usually, so far as improvement in the people’s economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
Vilfredo Pareto, Manual of Political Economy (1927, Ann S. Schwier, trans., 1971), p. 301.