Arquette is trying to confuse two different issues here. One is equality under the law and the other is equality of outcome. She’s lumping the two together and acting as if they’re the same. But they’re not.
POLITICS
Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Liberals believe that black people’s fate is determined by the beneficence of white people and government programs.
No Gatekeepers: Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia without Central Planners
The crowd possesses “local knowledge” that experts can’t begin to replicate.
Glib ‘Happy Talk’
When Alfred E. Neuman said “What me worry?” on the cover of Mad magazine, it was funny. But this message was not nearly as funny coming from President Barack Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice.
Obama’s Crusade To Give Militant Islam A Free Pass
“The medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the radical Islamic threat today.”
Measles, Vaccines and Autism
The claim that the vaccine for measles causes autism has been discredited by evidence.
Obama Versus America
The biggest advantage that the children of low-income immigrants have over the children of native-born, low-income families is that low-income immigrants have not been saturated for generations with the rhetoric of victimhood and hopelessness, spread by people like Obam…
Inequality Is Not The Problem, Lack Of Freedom Is
Freedom is the only means to increase human well-being.
Defense Against Demagogues
This year’s congressional efforts to reduce corporate income tax will create great opportunities for demagogues.
Obama Stomps His Foot Over Netanyahu
Israel is not an enemy. This shouldn’t even be a squabble in the first place.
Restate of the Union: What Obama Should Have Said in His State of The Union Address
What Obama Should Have Said in His State of The Union Address
Will the West Defend Itself?
Leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. They praise Europe’s massive welfare state, socialized medicine and stifling economic regulation and accept its unwillingness to defend itself against barbarism.
Early Presidential Prospects
Everyone knows what the Democrats stand for, but even some Republicans in Congress seem to have only a hazy idea of what principles Republicans stand for.
‘Diversity’ in Action
Europe is currently in the process of paying the price for years of importing millions of people from a culture hostile to the fundamental values of Western culture.
New Year’s Irresolution
Obama is for redistribution, even at the expense of his own country — if someone with such a “citizen of the world” viewpoint really thinks of America as his country, rather than a staging area for his world-changing, ideologically-driven crusades.
The Dangers of Government Medicine
We are all in danger when politicians enforce Big Government Medicine–the primary goal of which is its own health and preservation.
Liberals’ Use of Black People, Part II
The news media and intellectual elite don’t condemn Sharpton or Obama, because they have two standards of behavior: one for whites and a lower one for blacks.
The ‘Equality’ Racket
What may be a spontaneous confusion among the public at large about the very different meanings of the word “equality” can be a carefully cultivated confusion by politicians, lawyers and others skilled in rhetoric, who can exploit that confusion for their own bene…
Anti-Capitalism: What Republicans and Democrats Have in Common
What do Republicans and Democrats have in common? They both grow the government.
The Immorality and Contempt for Liberty By Leftist Regressives
Regressives like to give immoral acts an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding expressions, such as “spreading the wealth,” “income redistribution,” “caring for the less fortunate” and “the will of the majority.”
Liberals’ Immoral Use of Black People
Liberals desperately need blacks. If the Democratic Party lost just 30 percent of the black vote, it would mean the end of the liberal agenda. That means blacks must be kept in a perpetual state of grievance in order to keep them as a one-party people in a two-party sys…
A Year of Anniversaries
Anniversaries are opportunities to look back at historic turning points, compare the rhetoric of the time with the reality that we now know unfolded — and to learn hard lessons about the difference between rhetoric and reality for our own time.
Reputation Protects Better Than Regulation
Regulators call themselves “consumer protectors,” but often their main role is to ban better options.
Who’s Responsible?
The race card is nothing to play with. It can ruin us all.
Black Progression and Retrogression
Much of the pathology seen in many black communities is entirely new in black history.
Should Profiling Be Banned?
The true villains, to whom anger should be directed, are the tiny percentage of people in the black community who prey on both blacks and whites and have made black synonymous with crime.
Tortured Reasoning: Attacking Those Who Defend Us
Some thoughts about those who safeguard our lives: the CIA, police and military.
Can Racial Discrimination Explain Much?
How much of what we see is caused by discrimination?
The Real Reason Ferguson Burns
The moment we start taking seriously the idea that there are different kinds of reality and therefore different kinds of reason to apply to different “realities,” (black, white, female, whatever), then civilization is truly on its way out.
Beware of Our Betters
Jonathan Gruber’s notion that the people are “stupid” is not fundamentally different from what Obama said to his fellow elite leftists in San Francisco, when he derided ordinary Americans as petty people who want to cling to their guns and their religion. We need to see…
Obama vs The Rule of Law: On The President’s Selective Enforcement of Immigration Laws
If immigration laws are, as I hold, violations of individual rights, it is up to the courts, not the President, to determine that.
Why The Founders Didn’t Give Us a Democracy
As the famous story goes, when Ben Franklin left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia had a question she wanted answered. “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if...
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