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The University of Chicago, United Airlines and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are among those backing affirmative action in friend-of-the-court briefs.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Affirmative Action is going to be ending. Chief Justice Roberts said that the way to stop discrimination based on race is to stop discriminating based on race. There will be many, many class action suits against the numerous universities that defiantly continue to discriminate. The damages will put them out of business and a decade from now academia will be radically reformed. The left has long used the court systems to achieve what they cannot achieve through the legislature. Now it is time for the right to use the court systems to put our avowed enemies – the liberal arts… Read more »
“arguing that all students benefit from racial and ethnic diversity in admissions.” Oh really? What about the high performing students who were discriminated against because of the color of their skin? How exactly did they benefit from being discriminated against? These professors argue that its OK for some people to sit at the back of the bus, because of the color of their skin. 68 pages of uber-liberal professors signed on to the brief saying its OK to send middle and lower class and well performing white and asian kids to the Back of the Bus. Remember that the next… Read more »
Hmm, is affirmative action a permanent construct or will it expire during my life time when everybody catches up?