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The San Bernardino County Transitional Assistance Department (TAD) chose to work with Accenture to gain greater efficiency and effectiveness in identifying fraud and non-compliance among CalFresh participants. The team built analytic models that would strengthen detection, improve prevention and maximize insights. For example, the team would run models on the all cases, score and rank the cases and look deeper at the top 10 percent to see if there was a high number of known fraud cases appearing at the top of the list. After refining the model and changing algorithms based on the findings, the team saw a major leap in the "hit rate" of fraudulent cases—moving from 6.1 percent to 20.8 percent.
The San Bernardino County Transitional Assistance Department (TAD) wanted to maximize program compliance while minimizing the fraudulent and abusive behavior among participants in the CalFresh program, formerly known as Food Stamps and federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). TAD was spending valuable time and resources on investigating fraud cases that were often not severe enough to pursue prosecution. The County recognized that analytics could help make the process more efficient, and thereby make the investigations unit more efficient in finding fraudulent cases.
TAD chose to work with Accenture on identifying fraudulent activities related to CalFresh for several reasons—Accenture's human services experience (for example, on the Statewide Automated Welfare System Consortium-IV program), its robust analytics capabilities and knowledge of public service in California.
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TAD and Accenture set out to bolster non-compliance and error identification processes by:
Strengthening detection. Better detection of fraud would reduce the cost of non-compliance and error to TAD, complement existing detection capabilities to better target known patterns, increase hit rates and reduce investigation time.
Improving prevention. Enhanced prevention would help reduce costs for TAD by identifying non-compliance and error earlier in the lifecycle of a claim, while maintaining a high standard of customer service.
Maximizing insights. Sharing investigation results across key business units would help to increase the understanding of customer behaviors and non-compliance patterns across TAD.
The effort to create a model to better predict and identify known fraud began with Accenture meeting with the client to understand how TAD currently identified fraud and tracked investigations. Using that knowledge, the team developed analytic models and tested those models on the entire universe of cases, including fraudulent ones, to identify which model was performing the strongest.
As a result of Accenture's Intelligent Processing Services pilot at TAD, the team has achieved the following:
Improved hit rate
A baseline of 6.1 percent was calculated based on investigations completed from March. The objective was to improve the fraud identification rate to ~6.7 percent (a 10 percent improvement). After running the new analytical model, the observed hit rate, based on the validation, was 20.8 percent.
Earlier identification of fraud cases to investigate
The current average is approximately nine months on CalFresh program aid before investigation begins on a fraud case. Based on preliminary results, the model identifies fraud at least three months earlier.
Process automation
Previously, TAD investigators would have to manually pull data from the statewide EBT system to track fraud. Now there is a batch process that auto-pulls data from the system, loads it into a database, runs analytics through a software-as-a-service model and then generates a scored list of cases. Accenture Intelligent Processing Services also provides a periodically refreshed list of likely non-compliant cases and basic investigative support data, along with a measurement process, to assess the lift and value gained.
Based on the success of the pilot analytical model, TAD intends to operationalize the model and embed it in current fraud investigation processes and procedures.


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We talk about living in a global era, but the groundwork for it was laid more than a century ago. By the late 19th century, Europe, Japan, and the United States had taken control of most of the world. Travel and trade between home countries and colonies sent goods and technology to even the most remote corners of the globe. An English lady's letter home on smallpox inoculations in Turkey, an American missionary's account of the forcible collection of rubber in Belgian Congo, and a Chinese official's regulations for European merchants are among the primary sources that Bonnie Smith has assembled to demonstrate the advantages and drawbacks of the new economy. Society, education, and the environment also underwent massive changes, as witnessed by the selection of excerpts from an exam in a German missionary school in Togo and British reports on the devastation of entire forests in Burma.
Imperial growth did not come without a price. A Japanese document outlining governance in Korea and U.S. President Benjamin Harrison's defense of the annexation of Hawaii illustrate the militant nationalism, religious intolerance, and pseudo-scientific racist theories used to justify the brute force of colonial rule. The colonized nations fought back-a popular Chinese poem in praise of the Boxers' opposition to foreign rule attests to this rebellious spirit, and a Moroccan's shock at "barbaric" European mores illustrates the conquered's view of the conquerors. A picture essay, "Mixture," showcases the amalgamation of global cultures through photographs of buildings, furniture, advertisements, sporting events, and sculpture. Bonnie Smith vividly captures the booming expansion of a flawed political system and expertly links the documentary evidence with informed commentary and prefatory essays to each chapter.
This reference book combines explanatory text with primary source documents. The book begins by explaining what a primary source document is and follows up with instructions about how to read such a document. After an introduction explaining the focus of the book, nine chapters each discuss a different aspect of imperialism. These chapters begin with some information on their specific topics followed by various primary source documents, such as captioned photographs, letters, or speeches, with an explanation of who is talking or writing and the subject of the document. For instance, in the chapter titled "On the Brink of Modern Empire," the author explains that Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an English aristocrat, lived in Turkey early in the eighteenth century as a diplomat's wife. She had access to the ruler's harem, from which she learned about a procedure to inoculate against smallpox. A letter that she wrote to a friend in April 1717 about this procedure follows. In this way, the reader is given an explanation of the document and then the item itself. This resource provides interesting reading, as does another title in the series, The Gilded Age: A History in Documents (Oxford University Press, 2000), but the material would be of use in a school library only if teachers assigned students to find primary source documents. The advantage of this series is that the documents are explained and put into the context of the time when they were produced. If primary source documents must be used for research, the Pages from History series would be an excellent addition. Index. Illus. Photos. Maps. Source Notes. Further Reading. Chronology. 2000, Oxford University Press, 176p. PLB Ages 16 toAdult. Reviewer: Sue Krumbein SOURCE: VOYA, April 2001 (Vol. 24, No.1)


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Although it's illegal to discriminate based on pregnancy, there are still many cases of women fired or not hired for positions because of...
Although it's illegal to discriminate based on pregnancy, there are still many cases of women fired or not hired for positions because of pending motherhood.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 4,649 charges of pregnancy-based discrimination in fiscal 2003. It resolved 4,847 charges and recovered $12.4 million for the charging parties that year.
"For highly skilled women, it is changing," said Jodi Grant, director of work and family programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families, formerly the Women's Legal Defense Fund. "But for a lot of women, there is still discrimination out there."
The federal Family and Medical Leave Act allows an annual 12 weeks of unpaid leave for workers at an employer of 50 or more people for at least a year.
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Many women have no leave time when they start a new job. Some who are pregnant and job searching find it necessary to reveal a pregnancy so that maternity leave can be negotiated along with salary and benefits.
Such was the case with Jennifer Sweeney when a friend she had worked with at an organization for working women called her about a job opening as a lobbyist.
Sweeney decided to wait until she was offered a job, then tell the organization she needed maternity leave. If it accepted that, great. If not, she would stay at her current position.
When Sweeney was offered the job, she explained her situation to the chief executive and suggested six weeks of leave. The CEO, a parent himself, told her she'd need at least that much time to recover.
He was right. Sweeney took 12 weeks, working 10 hours a week from home during the final six weeks of leave.


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One of the European Commission's scientific committees is seeking information on the health and environmental effects of nanosilver particles used in medical and consumer products. The consultation will run until 4 June.
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By lengthening, widening and deepening the locks, the Panama Canal will accommodate much larger ships. In fact, the largest ships today carry just 5,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). When the expansion is fully complete, expected in early 2016, that number will jump to as high as 13,000. (more…)
West Coast Port Dispute Causes Short-Term Transportation Challenges
West Coast ports began running at full speed late last month due to a long-standing labor dispute between dock workers and port owners. But the economic impact of the interruptions on both imports and exports, along with ongoing freight flow patterns and congestion, will be felt for months to come, according to Dino Moler, LeSaint's Executive Vice President of Client Solutions. (more…)
RSC Equipment Rental: "When Quicker Is Better"
When the 4th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Hood, Texas received orders to move into Iraq, they turned to RSC Equipment Rental to provide equipment that could facilitate around-the-clock loading of supplies and military equipment. At 11 a.m., the Defense Accounting Financing Service requested 30 light towers and 5 reach lifts to be at Fort Hood by 5 p.m. (more…)
Shipment Delays Are Avoided Through New Electronic Tracking Technology
Shipment electronic tracking technology is now taking out the worry and stress of shippers' lives. For example, a manufacturing customer of LeSaint Logistics recently had a shipment en-route from Cincinnati to Chicago. Unfortunately there was freezing rain along Interstate 74 just outside of Indianapolis, and LeSaint's driver learned that the Interstate was shut down up ahead due to severe black ice. (more…)
Driver Shortage Is Addressed Directly Through Partnership With Technical School
It's no secret that there's a significant driver shortage – which is having a substantial negative impact on capacity. In fact, according to recent statistics by the American Trucking Associations, there are currently about 25,000 unfilled truck driving jobs. While there's been this underlying driver shortage, it has been masked by the recession, says Bill Lansaw, Vice President of Transportation for LeSaint. (more…)
BE Aerospace Success Story: Freight Payment Audit Details Transportation Spend
Like many shippers, BE Aerospace sought out a third-party freight payment auditor to ferret out rate errors and file service failure claims, but soon discovered the cascading benefits of having granular, accurate data about their transportation spend. (more…)
Practical Steps To Successful Outsourcing
The practice of outsourcing transportation and other logistics functions continues to be a practice enabling companies to stay focused on their core competencies. As markets, distribution networks, and the scale of your company changes, complexity can become overwhelming. Eventually, the solutions that provided good results in the past become strained. That's when healthy companies face some tough but important decisions. (more…)
Success Stories: Technology Brings Shippers Added Visibility
Powerful new technologies and a vast array of TMS applications now gives today's shippers the ability to manage orders, optimize loads, select the best carriers, automate shipping for all modes, track shipping progress, settle payment and manage claims. In addition, technologies now map, graph, model, trend and benchmark entire logistics operations at more than half the costs of what was required even just a few years ago. (more…)
Shipment Electronic Tracking and Logs Added To LeSaint Fleet Operations
Imagine if you could, at any time, have the latest information regarding the location of a driver for last-minute production scheduling. This would ultimately give you the ability to make last-minute decisions about loading or unloading to eliminate production slowdowns. This is just one example of a new shipment electronic tracking capability now available through LeSaint Logistics. (more…)
Supply & Demand Changes Have Short-Term Impact On Freight Rates
While the driver shortage, peak season, and other factors have created long-term challenges in equipment availability, LeSaint Logistics offers perspectives on short-term changes in freight rates in certain lanes. (more…)


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Friday, August 25
✔ St. Peter Prairie Days begins with fish, chicken and ribeye dinner at 5 p.m., sand volleyball and softball tournaments at 6 p.m. and "Cary Miller Band" at 8 p.m.
✔ Crawford-Hale American Legion Post 95 will hold bingo at 7 p.m. at the Legion Home; doors open at 5:30 p.m.
✔ A Nar-Anon meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at Northside Christian Church, 1845 W. Jackson St., Vandalia.
Saturday, August 26
Customers of First National Bank of Vandalia, Ramsey, Patoka, Mulberry Grove and Greenville are advised to be aware of a possible phone scam.
In recent weeks, individuals have reported receiving phone calls that on their caller ID indicate are coming from First National Bank in Vandalia.
One person reported that the caller was attempting to sell them a vacation. She became suspicious and immediately hung up. First National Bank is not selling any vacations, condos, or other related trips.
A child pornography case that has already been delayed due to unique circumstances a couple of times took another unusual turn on Monday afternoon.
A case of West Nile virus has been found in Fayette County.
Jodi Smith, director of Environmental Health for Fayette County Health Department, said, "Routine mosquito testing has identified the first West Nile virus positive batch of mosquitoes in Fayette County in 2017.
"These results demonstrate the continued need for people to ensure they are protected from mosquito bites," Smith said.
The mosquito sample was collected in rural Shobonier last Tuesday and tested last Thursday.
"I am troubled that there were comments at the last council meeting that there was a feeling that the council was 'lied to' or 'snookered' by FAYCO Enterprises or myself."
That was part of the statement that FAYCO Executive Director Kim Taylor delivered on Monday night in response to comments made by some Vandalia aldermen two weeks earlier.
U.S. Congressman John Shimkus (R-15th District) was among the visitors at the Fayette County YMCA's Community Appreciation Day last Friday.
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Genealogy: Making Your Family Tree
By Kristen
October 19, 2007
Genealogy is not about just finding out who you're related to (although that is the primary component of it). It's about history, your history, and who you are. It's about where you came from, why your family seems so weird, and appreciation for those who worked hard so that you could exist. It's about stories and pictures, love and sorrow. It's about realizing that if just one person in your ancestry made one decision which resulted in a change of events you might not be here today. It's about everyone who has come before you and all of the people who will be born because of you. It's about how each person, no matter how insignificant they seem, has a legacy and influences the world. It's the ultimate realization of how each of us is important and necessary and the best way to honor your ancestors.


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It's the first Tuesday of the month, and time for another Create with Me Challenge! This month, the winning item was pine cones, which, considering the season, seemed like the perfect choice for an easy holiday decoration. That's how I decorate – without spending a lot of time or money on most projects. I wanted… Read More


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ST. PAUL, Minn. – Augusta men's golf rising junior Broc Everett qualified for the 2016 U.S. Amateur on Monday afternoon and joins Robin Petersson and Jake Marriott to represent the Jaguars.
Everett shot four-under par (68-70, 138) in the St. Paul, Minn., qualifier at Hillcrest Golf Club of St. Paul. This is the second-straight year that Everett has qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship.
Everett and the Jags compete in the 116th U.S. Amateur August 15-21 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Mich.
The USGA conducts the U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open and U.S. Senior Open, as well as 10 national amateur championships, two state team championships and international matches, attracting players and fans from more than 160 countries. Together with The R&A, the USGA governs the game worldwide, jointly administering the Rules of Golf, Rules of Amateur Status, equipment standards and World Amateur Golf Rankings.
The USGA's reach is global with a working jurisdiction in the United States, its territories and Mexico, serving more than 25 million golfers and actively engaging 150 golf associations.


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Josephine Baker: Entertainment, Espionage, and the Fight for Equality
July 1st, 2017 | by Kirsten King
Earlier in June, we were reminded of the extraordinary life Josephine Baker had led when the world commemorated what would
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Earlier in June, we were reminded of the extraordinary life Josephine Baker had led when the world commemorated what would
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One of the largest and most anticipated of its kind, the COLCOA French Film Festival returns to Hollywood this spring
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Now that Portugal are the continental champions of Euro 2016, France can get back to its customary summer tourism and
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Nestled in the heart of downtown San Francisco rests an unassuming gem of a church — the Église Notre Dame
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Stereo Total has done it again. With their recently -released album, Hormones, the Franco-German duo delivers their trademark electro-kitsch through
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"All of a sudden the density of the air is no longer the same. Manhattan no longer spreads its infinity.
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Local artist and teacher, Sarah King, is rounding out a year of studies in French painting by focusing on Marc
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One of the world's most prolific artists, Pablo Picasso left behind a vast oeuvre—more than 20,000 pieces including paintings, sculptures,
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The Eiffel Tower, Pont Neuf, Le Moulin Rouge: all landmarks known the world over, whose names are almost interchangeable with
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Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения.What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances.A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.
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Princess Catherine on Friday will celebrate Canada's national holiday on her international debut with Prince William as crowds throng to catch a glimpse of Britain's newest royal couple.
Packed with pomp and pageantry, the North American tour comes just two months after a radiant Kate Middleton walked down the aisle in a fairytale royal wedding watched by an estimated two billion people worldwide.
The couple were to cap off their visit to the capital by joining tens of thousands of revelers outside parliament for musical performances and fireworks to celebrate Canada's national holiday.
Canadians turned out en masse for a glimpse or a handshake as Middleton, now Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, arrived in Ottawa on Thursday wearing a navy lace dress by Montreal-born designer Erdem Moralioglu.
"Welcome to Canada, honeymoon capital of the Commonwealth," said Governor General David Johnston.
The couple's arrival at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa triggered excited screams from an estimated 10,000-strong crowd -- several of the women wearing fascinators, the hair accessory of choice for the duchess.
"There he is. There's our future king," Pat Snair shouted from the fringes of the crowd as the 29-year-old newlyweds stepped from the cortege to place a bouquet of flowers before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
While Prince William, second in line to the British throne, has plenty of experience at royal duties, Kate is a relative rookie. But it was clearly the elegant Berkshire, England native that many in the crowd had come to see.
She represents the future of the monarchy, she's "excitement and youth," said Denise, in her 60s.
"William is OK, but Kate is fascinating," added two teenage girls.
The princess was cool under fire and showed no outward signs of nerves on her first overseas walkabout, smiling broadly and exchanging polite banter as she shook hands with the crowd for longer than the intended hour.
"I'm hoping to find romance like theirs," said one wildly-impressed teenage girl.
From the war memorial unveiled in 1939 by William's great-grandparents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, who established a tradition with the first royal walkabout, the show then moved on to the official residence of the governor general, the vice-regal representative of Queen Elizabeth II.
"Catherine and I are so delighted to be here in Canada," William said.
"We have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time. Quite separately, before we were married, we had both had a longing to come here, instilled in us by our parents and grandparents."
He spoke in both of Canada's official languages, French and English, and to laughs vowed his French would improve over the course of this trip.
"The geography of this country is world-renowned, as is the hospitality of its peoples," William said.
Support for the monarchy hovers above 50 percent in Canada and has risen from last year when Queen Elizabeth II visited, although there is still a vocal anti-monarchist minority planning to protest in Quebec City on Sunday.
In addition to official and military ceremonies, the royal schedule has lighter moments planned, such as a cooking class, an aboriginal sports event and a rodeo.
Later Thursday, the royals attended a barbecue with 120 young Canadians at the residence of the governor general, where they are spending the night. A downpour, however, forced the event indoors.
William, in a buttoned down shirt slightly open at the collar, khakis and brown loafers, put his arm around the princess's waist to guide her around the room, chatting with guests.
Kate changed into a black and white dress by Issa for dinner, where a gourmet menu included Quebec cheeses, New Brunswick oysters, Qikiqtarjuaq sea urchins, musk ox prosciutto and potato-crusted Alberta yak tartar.
On Saturday they will embark on a countrywide tour, taking a cooking class in Montreal before traveling on to Quebec City, Charlottetown, Yellowknife and Calgary.
Prior to their final stop in Canada, the newlyweds are expected to sneak away on a romantic getaway to a secluded and undisclosed location in the Rocky Mountains.
After wrapping up their Canadian tour, they will travel to California for a three-day visit on July 8-10 whose highlight will be a black-tie celebrity reception for British filmmakers in Los Angeles.


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DISGUSTING! Fury as man caught on camera URINATING on war memorial then fined JUST £100
THIS is the shocking image showing a 47-year-old man urinating on a hallowed memorial to Britain's war dead.
But David Skinner was fined just £100 for his vile act.
Skinner was caught on camera by a disgusted member of the public defiling a statue dedicated to brave war heroes last Tuesday, February 10.
The memorial in Margate, Kent, has the names of 700 soldiers who died in both world wars and more recent conflicts.
We are quite appalled really - it's just lack of respect
Skinner, from Broadstairs, Kent, appeared before Medway Magistrates' Court yesterday and admitted outraging public decency.
He was fined £100 and ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge.
Pamela Pople, Chair of the Margate Civic Society said: "We are quite appalled really - it's just lack of respect. People laid down their lives and served their country – we are disappointed and disgusted.
"I think the public opinion would be very strong on this and people would be equally appalled. I was sent this photo, but I haven't yet heard about the identity of this person."
A Royal British Legion spokesman described it as a "senseless incident".
He said: "The Legion is saddened to hear of this senseless incident.
"War memorials and graves honour the memory of the British Armed Forces who have made the ultimate sacrifice and those who defend the freedom we enjoy."


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Complaint Review: Academic Advantage
Academic Advantage They take advantage of you! Los Angeles, California
I looked online the night before the orientation and read that they try to rip you off by making you pay them back $ for times you don't tutor and for incorrect paperwork. Also, that they tell everyone there that they must be fingerprinted and charge them on the spot. Since I had a l had already paid $15 for the TB test and $61 for fingerprinting, I decided to go and check it out anyway.
They gave us reams of paperwork to look over and much of it told of penalties you would have to pay if your paperwork was wrong or late and these penalties ranged from $25 to $37. They also asked for your credit card number in case the laptop they gave you (which no-one got yet) was not given back. The woman giving the information had everyone sign in and then told them they would have to get fingerprinted at a later date and that the paperwork was in the packet. A half hour later a man showed up to fingerprint people (for $88 which is more than the police department charges) and the woman acted surprised as if she didn't know he was coming but fully knew the procedure and told each person they had to do it now or it would be a long time until they got work. This means that they made at least $27 or more off of each person there and there was to be another orientation after that would be the same.
The reams of paperwork described lesson plans that must be made up, paperwork done weekly and mailed at your own expense - none of this time would you be paid for and if you mailed two envelopes instead of one, you would not only get fined but possibly not get paid. This is a total scam. I walked out and took all of my personal information with me.
Finally, the parking at the Marriott was $24 which again the woman acted like she had no idea, even though it states this when pulling in. The attendant upon my leaving said how terrible it was for them to make us pay that much when they knew none of us were employed. We were not given another option.
This is a total scam. Please do not get sucked in by promises of $17 an hour by people who have never met you or assessed your skills. I asked the woman about that and she said they used to do that but now they don't. I had asked on the phone and was told I'd be emailed the assessment...even though this is not done any more!!?? All lies. If they call, please hang up and block them from your phone. what a waste of time and more importantly, money to park, for fingerprinting and a TB test.
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The Aussie is holding within the tight range after failing to benefit on upbeat Chinese data. The pair stays below Friday's high at 0.7833 (the highest since 21 Apr 2016), but psychological 0.7800 support limits the downside attempts on minor profit taking for now.
Overbought daily studies warn of deeper correction following last week's strong rally (the pair was up nearly 3% for the week), but so far lacking stronger signal. Firm break below 0.7800 handle is needed to trigger fresh bearish acceleration and expose supports at 0.7772/33 (Fibo 23.6% and 38.2% of 0.7572/0.7833 upleg) respectively.
Upper break points at 0.7833 (21 Apr 2016 high) and 0.7848 9Fibo 38.2% of 0.9503/0.6825 descend) remain in near-term focus.
Res: 0.7833, 0.7848, 0.7907, 0.7940
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Many of the shortfalls in homeland security since 9/11 can be directly traced to Congress piling more missions and responsibilities on the Department of Homeland Security than it could practically accomplish. The Senate's proposal to give amnesty to millions of immigrants unlawfully present in the United States would further overwhelm DHS's capacity to manage immigration services, enforce the law, and ramp up security at the border. Giving more missions to DHS now is a strategy for failure. Instead, Congress should let DHS focus on its current missions and mandates, using its existing authority to secure the border, enforce the law, and provide a powerful deterrent to future illegal migration.
Work in Progress
The federal government has yet to complete many of its post-9/11 security initiatives. These include:
- Implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). In 2004, the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative was established. It requires U.S. and Canadian citizens crossing the border to carry a passport or equivalent document. The WHTI caused an explosion in passport applications and, in effect, a backlog of 500,000 passports. The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department announced last week that full implementation of WHTI requirements on land and at seaports will be delayed until January 2008.
- Improved Immigration Services. The 2007 report of the ombudsman of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stated that there is a backlog of an estimated 1,275,795 applications from would-be immigrants. Some reports state this number is actually as high as 4 million. USCIS personnel have been encouraged to process applications faster, such as by pushing aside applications thought to be more difficult and processing the easier ones.
- Secure Flight Initiative. The Secure Flight Initiative was introduced by the Bush Administration as a replacement for the CAPPS and CAPPS II systems. The program is meant to screen manifests for domestic flights against the Terrorist Watch List. It is one on the capabilities that, if available then, could have stopped some of the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Implementing the system was a priority recommendation of the 9/11 Commission. The program was intended to be operative in 2005, and has been granted several time extensions, but has yet to be fully implemented.
- An Exit System in U.S. VISIT. U.S. VISIT is a system meant to screen foreigners when they enter and exit the United States. The federal government has completely failed to implement a mandatory exit system. Currently, foreign travelers are tracked with the I-94 form, which simply asks them when they expect to leave. An electronic system capable of verifying a traveler's identity and confirming that the traveler has boarded a flight out of the country does not yet exist. Although Congress acted to put this system in place years before the 9/11 attacks, it is still not ready.
- Fugitive Alien Deportation. Illegal aliens who are apprehended are released and then expected to appear at their deportation hearings. Many do not return for their court dates, however, which makes them fugitive aliens. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is tasked with apprehending fugitive aliens and deporting them, currently has a backlog of 630,000 fugitive aliens.
- Watch List Consolidation. In 2003, following the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission's report, President Bush proposed to consolidate all of the government's watch lists. Four years later, this has yet to be accomplished.
- Operational Control of the Border with Mexico. The Secure Fence Act of 2005 contained a number of initiatives to enhance security on America's southern border. Even in its most optimistic estimates, DHS acknowledges that it will need 18 months to three years to carry out these initiatives in places.
More Missions?
DHS has not yet fulfilled many congressional and administrative mandates to improve its services and security for immigration, travel, and border control. Nevertheless, the Senate's immigration legislation would present a number of new and daunting challenges. These include:
- Providing immigration services for the 12 million to 15 million unlawfully present persons who will be granted amnesty by the legislation. USCIS would be responsible for this complicated, multi-year task.
- Establishing an Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) to verify whether workers may legally work in the United States. The federal government would be required to create a new nationwide system that employers can easily access and that is capable of querying several different databases containing information of all legal employees in the country. This system would have to include over 7 million employers and over 130 million employees.
It is unrealistic to believe that DHS will be able to accomplish these tasks efficiently. Nonetheless, the legislation requires that these initiatives and additional border security measures be completed before the government can implement a temporary worker program. Delaying the temporary worker program, however, would only increase illegal immigration and provide additional opportunities for those who oppose the program to undermine its effectiveness.
Recommendations for the Administration and
Rather than heap more requirements on DHS, Congress and the Administration should recognize that much can be done under DHS's existing authority to secure the border, enforce the law, and provide a powerful deterrent to future illegal migration.
The Administration should continue to do the following:
- Increase the Number of Border Patrol Agents. The Administration should fulfill its goal of hiring 3,000 agents per year-a more than five-fold increase over the numbers hired in previous years. Contractors from the private sector can assist with many functions, including border patrol and detention and removal.
- Cooperate with State and Local Law Enforcement. Cooperative efforts should focus on enhancing border security and addressing the criminal alien population. Such efforts include expanding Border Enhancement Security Task Forces; supporting state operations similar to "Operation Linebacker" conducted in Texas; providing homeland security grants to assist community policing in border communities; and increasing participation in the 287 (g) program, which coordinates cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement on immigration matters.
- Deploy Technology and Obstacles Along the Border. The Department of Homeland Security should implement its border security plans, which include increased intelligence sharing, expanding its capabilities along the border through its SBI Net program, and placing obstacles where they prove efficient and effective.
- Target Enforcement on Specific Sectors of the Economy. These include sectors in which undocumented workers are the most prevalent and in which businesses intentionally hire illegal workers to undercut competitors and reap illegal profits. This can be done using existing legal authority.
Congress should:
- Not Grant Amnesty. Rejecting amnesty would serve as part of a powerful deterrent against future illegal migration.
- Establish a Temporary Worker Program. This would provide legitimate opportunities for industries to get the employees they need and for foreign individuals to work in the U.S.
These measures will not remove every unlawfully present person from the United States, nor will they seal the border. They will, however, enable the government to gain control of the southern border, facilitate serious workplace enforcement, and serve as a deterrent against future illegal migration. This is a much better plan than handing DHS an impossible mission.
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., is Assistant Director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and Senior Research Fellow for National Security and Homeland Security in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.


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In academia's unending effort to provide some justification for racial and ethnic admissions preferences, yet another social-science study has been produced, this one finding "a positive impact on racial attitudes from students who are exposed to those of other ...
The Black-Coach Gap
At Prawfsblawg, Howard Wasserman today poses a question: Would it violate the Fourteenth Amendment, or Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, if universities collectively adopted a policy of interviewing at least one minority candidate for each available football head-coaching ...
The Minority Ph.D. Disparity
The lead story at The Chronicle of Higher Education today (subscription needed) is "What Minorities Can Do to Graduate More Minority Ph.D.'s." It's all pretty predictable, and I'm afraid my responses will be, too. First, there ...
Race-Neutral First
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting blog item today about a forthcoming article in The Catholic University Law Review by George LaNoue and Ken Marcus. The article argues that universities are not following an important part of the "...
The Real Janet Napolitano
The still-forming Obama administration seems intent on revisiting many controversies of the past. We already have Eric Holder and the Marc Rich pardon. Now, with the floating of Janet Napolitano's name, we get to revisit the Anita Hill controversy. ...
A Modest Proposal
From the comment thread of that Inside Higher Ed piece I mentioned earlier today: It is neither possible nor desirable to exclude race from consideration in college admissions. But as the author points out, accurate determination of race can be ...
The Election and E Pluribus Unum
Here's my New York Post op-ed today, making the case for Obama to end racial preferences. Doesn't hurt to ask, I figure. The election has one silver lining: The very fact that an African American has been elected ...
Re: Sign-Stealing Professor
I wouldn't jump to conclusions that he's lost his job. Maybe he only literally re-signed (i.e., put the stolen signs back — and one can only hope they're still McCain signs).
Two English-Language Ballot Initiatives
In addition to the other "Upsides, Down the Ballot" that the editors have flagged, I'd like to mention two others — where, in particular, voters can send the message that Americans need to know English. In Oregon, a ballot initiative (...
More McCain Racism
According to The Washington Post today, "McCain has tried to reach out [to Hispanic voters] with Spanish-language television ads, such as one titled 'Riesgo' that calls Obama a risk for small-business owners and employees …." Calling someone a risk is obviously ...
No Sense of Irony
PriceWaterhouseCoopers has a nifty new ad on the always-appalling DiversityInc. newsletter, stating simply, "A bias toward diversity." Yeah, that about sums it up, I'm sure.
Re: Discrimination at OSU
Here's what I wrote on faculty hiring discrimination in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Alas, as Mr. Dent's statement shows, the discrimination continues, despite my best efforts to persuade academe that it's on thin legal ice.
Pretty Good Op-Ed in the Yale Daily News
After a shaky, touchy-feely start, the author comes to the right conclusion: "The University's vocal support for affirmative action in administrative promotion does a disservice to women, minorities and the institution."The reason being that if everyone knows minorities ...
The Bradley Non-Effect
Two op-eds appear today — one in the New York Times and one in the Wall Street Journal — each debunking the original Bradley Effect. That is, each of them (the Times version is by a former Bradley aide, and the Journal ...
Funny -- On Your Resume, You Look Black ...
From today's Chronicle Careers: "A job candidate in sociology whose research focuses on race finds that he's not what search committees were expecting."
Preferences Uber Alles, and We Mean Alles
From a summary of the bailout bill: Section 107. Contracting Procedures.Allows the Secretary to waive provisions of the Federal Acquisition Regulation where compelling circumstances make compliance contrary to the public interest. Such waivers must be reported to Congress within 7 days. ...
"A Sharp Nail" and "I Need Job"
Suitable anagrams for "Sarah Palin" and "Joe Biden," respectively. Hat tip to my old friend, Wren Soilfaces.
Big, Front-Page NYT Story Today
… regarding conservative efforts to "establish academic beachheads."
Does Obama's Race Hurt Him?
On the racial recriminations already being predicted if Senator Obama loses (see, e.g., the Randall Kennedy essay in The Washington Post over the weekend), let me state the obvious: While there's no doubt that race will influence some ...
Diversity Has Educational Benefits?
So claims a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Inside Higher Ed summarizes:The study found that white students who attend medical schools with greater racial and ethnic diversity in the student body are more likely ...
Only in America
So, let's see. On the major party tickets, we have: an African-American (whose father was an immigrant), a woman (whose husband is part Eskimo), a Catholic (who stuttered, now has logorrhea, and was declared medically ineligible for military service), ...
An Increasingly Multiracial, Multiethnic America
Lots of articles this morning about the latest Census Bureau projections, along the lines of this one in The New York Times, headlined "In a Generation, Minorities May Be the U.S. Majority." The usual caveats apply, of course, with ...
McCain, Obama, and the NAACP's "Civil Rights Questionnaire"
The NAACP has posted the respective responses by Sens. McCain and Obama to its "Civil Rights Questionnaire." First bat out of the box is "Affirmative Action," and McCain quotes verbatim the categorical, no discrimination/no preference language from the ballot ...
Senator Obama's Stint at U of C
Regarding the New York Times story today on the matter, a law-professor acquaintance of mine writes:So, the University of Chicago offered to give Obama tenure after he had taught there for several years without producing any scholarship. It would ...
No Power to the People
Ward Connerly, Jennifer Gratz, and the state leaders in Colorado, Arizona, and Nebraska have collected enough signatures to put civil-rights ballot initiatives before the voters there this November. These initiatives will ban preferences based on race, ethnicity, and sex — a....
The New York Times Is Math-Impaired
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal each report today on a study in this week's Science comparing girls' and boys' math scores. The study, which I have not read, apparently found that there is no gender gap ...
More on the NYT Race Poll
Here's Linda Chavez's take. She's right, of course: "The problem isn't, as the tone of the [Times] article implies, whites' failure to see racism lurking everywhere, but blacks' refusal to admit things have changed."
Excellent Article on Contracting Set-Asides
… in the new issue of The Weekly Standard.
Open Letter to the American Medical Association
Dear Ms. Hatwell, Your July 10 press release apologizing for the AMA's "history of racial inequality" also states the AMA's commitment to "increasing the ranks of minority physicians so that the workforce accurately represents the diversity of America's ...
Re: Asians and Affirmative Action
Thanks, Carol, for the invitation and the open mind. Several points.First, I think we have to decide whether we're going to be talking normatively or descriptively. I'm going to do the former, except to note that policymakers ...
Silly USA Today Editorial
The FBI, Terrorism, and "Racial Profiling"
The FBI is considering using ethnicity as one factor in potential terrorism probes, according to news reports like this one. NRO readers will recall that this issue was much discussed in the more immediate aftermath of 9/11. I am no fan ...
Well, At Least She's Honest
An official from the aptly-named group By Any Means Necessary is quoted today in the Omaha World-Herald, on why her group is trying to disrupt the signature-gathering efforts of Ward Connerly, who is leading an effort in Nebraska (and Colorado ...
Brave Op-Ed by Peter Schmidt
Peter Schmidt of The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. In it, he points out that the "diversity" rationale for university admission preferences based on race — that is, the claim that there are ...
Changing (That Is, Lowering) UC Admissions Standards
The University of California's board of regents has been asked to revise its eligibility standards, an item that will probably be on its agenda when it meets next month, I'm told. A key item is ending the requirement ...
Where Is the EEOC?
There was a fawning article in USA Today earlier this week regarding the efforts of advertising company The Interpublic Group (IPG) to increase its "diversity." If you persevere to the last paragraph, you learn: There's a financial incentive for ...
Accounting for Preferences
On May 15, the Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession published for public comment its draft report to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The committee was established last year by Treasury Secretary Paulson "to examine the sustainability of a ...
Diversity at DHS
A hearing last week before the House Homeland Security Committee would have been hilarious if it hadn't been so appalling, or maybe it's the other way around. Anyhow, according to a May 21 article in Congressional Quarterly (subscription required), ...
Re: Mark Krikorian's Latest Rant
I'm not going to comment one way or the other on what Dan Sutherland is doing now at the Department of Homeland Security, except to say that the fact that he was at one time affiliated with the Center ...
'Evangelicalism Rebounds in Academe'
The subheading of this feature in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education reads, "Even at elite colleges, doors are opening for religiously committed students and faculty members." Is the suggestion that normally the religiously committed would not ...
Obama Endorses Wider Set-Asides for Female-Owned Companies
Barack Obama sent a letter last week to the Small Business Administration, criticizing its proposed rule that would limit the use of set-asides for female-owned companies to instances where there is evidence of disparities caused by discrimination. As I wrote ...
Obama, Wright, and E Pluribus Unum
Here's another way to look at the Obama-Wright affair: The Left likes to talk about an American "mosaic," but most Americans still believe in E pluribus unum. For African Americans, in particular, there is an understandable pull toward ethnic ...
McCain Speaks on Affirmative Action
From the CBS New website, this quote from McCain yesterday: If you're talking about assuring equal and fair opportunity for all Americans and making sure that the practices of the U.S. military are emulated, the greatest equal opportunity ...
Defining "Minority"
Portuguese business owners in Rhode Island are upset with a proposed state law that would strip them of their official "minority" status – and the contracting set-asides that go with it. There are no heroes in this story, however, which provides ...
You Can't Win
From an L.A. Times op-ed today, about why it's racist to call Obama "elitist": "`Elitist' is another word for 'arrogant,' which is another word for 'uppity,' that old calumny applied to blacks who stood up for themselves." Of ...
The Washington Post Joins Our Side!
Today the Washington Post urges that college officials simply select the "best group and let the chips of racial composition fall where they may." To be sure, the "college officials" it has in mind are basketball coaches, and the "best ...
Disappointing Justice O'Connor
There's an article in Inside Higher Ed today that reports on a panel of "leading scholars" at the American Educational Research Association, all of whom concluded that there's no way in the world that the performance of black ...
Want to Hear a REALLY Honest Speech about Race in America?
My fellow Americans, let me begin with an apology. I have been promising a speech on the topic of race relations, because I kept reading newspaper columns about how we never hear any discussion of racial issues, and my advisers ...
Stop the Presses! New Diversity Study!
There's a story today in Inside Higher Ed about a new study of, yawn, campus diversity: I'm sure the diversiphiles will find much to like, but it really provides the most ammunition to those of us who believe ...
More on "Bean Counting"
Regarding John Miller's post Friday on "Definition of 'Bean Counting'": This is the public sector equivalent of the argument that private sector companies must have a workforce that reflects the racial and ethnic makeup of their customers. In either ...
Rum, Sodomy, the Lash, and Racial Discrimination
An Associated Press story explains how the Naval Academy is cheerfully encouraging members of Congress to engage in racial discrimination. Maybe it's just me, but I'd prefer that our naval officers be chosen on the basis of, say, ...
Civil Rights Commission Briefing Today on English-Language Workplace Rules
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission heard testimony today from several organizations regarding the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's lawsuits against various employers that have English-language workplace rules. In one notorious case, for example, the EEOC sued the ...
Affirmative Action -- Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
Okay, rubes, listen up: There's a review today on Salon of a "Raunchy gay fantasia from Tel Aviv," part of the "the explosion of new movies from Israel [that] has included a distinctly gay mini-wave." No doubt you Red ...
The Slippery Slope toward Nondiscrimination
The Portland Business Journal reported last Friday that the Oregon Department of Transportation "is facing criticism over an effort to give more work to specific groups of minority contractors." ODOT recently spelled out that a particular project would include requirements ...
Eric Holder Will Be a First
That's right, the first U.S. Attorney General with a mustache in nearly a hundred years. And I say, it's about time.
The Illusion of "The Illusion of Race-Blind Admissions"
There's an op-ed today at Inside Higher Ed that argues (a) we can't remove all evidence of a student's race from his or her application, so (b) we should just allow admission committees to engage in racial ...
The SAT II and UC Admissions
There's been some discussion on Phi Beta Cons over the past year or so of the proposal that the University of California change its admission requirements to ensure more politically correct results — by, for example, eliminating the requirement that ...
More on the Nebraska and Colorado Civil Rights Initiatives
Prominent among the "Upsides, Down the Ballot" listed by the editors today are the Nebraska and Colorado Civil Rights Initiatives, where voters in those states tomorrow can ban preferences based on race, ethnicity, and sex in public education, employment, and ...
Erasing Racial Ratios
Over the last few weeks, the Center for Equal Opportunity has released studies documenting the extent to which race and ethnicity are weighed in law school admissions at three universities: the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and the University ...
More on Racial Preferences at the University of Nebraska College of Law
Dean Steven Willborn of the University of Nebraska College of Law has responded to a recent study published by the Center for Equal Opportunity, which documented the heavy weight given race and ethnicity in the school's admissions. The bulk ...
Excellent Stuart Taylor Column
The always perceptive Taylor effectively skewers "the racial-grievance crowd" for ignoring the widespread white support for Obama and, instead, continuing its "obsessive search for ever-more-elusive evidence of widespread white racism."
Re: Homeownership Gap
I can't resist recycling this NRO column of mine from June 2002. By the way, I'm not enough of an economist to know how much of our current problems are traceable to politically correct lending, and I freely admit ...
Unbelievable News
Are all of you sitting down? I just picked up this week's Chronicle of Higher Education, and there, big as life, is this front-page headline: "Donors from Academe Favor Obama by a Wide Margin." The article reveals that "Professors, ...
STEM Diversity Nonsense
I just posted this over at Inside Higher Ed, in response to an op-ed there today spewing the usual politically correct "diversity" blather: I'm all for casting a wide net, so that everyone knows about the opportunities in the ...
New Center for Equal Opportunity Studies Released Today
The studies document the heavy weight the University of Arizona and Arizona State give to race and ethnicity. Here's the press release, which links to the studies themselves.For you statistical aficionados, the "odds ratio" — the odds by which ...
Et Tu, Tutu?
I usually avoid commenting on the disaster that racial preferences have been in other countries, since it's so obvious and since Thomas Sowell has written so definitively on this topic. But I can't resist noting this news item ...
CHE's "Diversity in Academe"
I've read The Chronicle of Higher Education's annual, 64-page "Diversity in Academe" so you don't have to, and believe me, you don't want to unless you have to. Highlights: (1) article on diversity efforts at the University ...
Re: Office for Civil Rights Guidance
Inside Higher Ed has an article on it today. It quotes me (quite fairly), and here's the full statement I sent them: OCR's guidance, while belated, is a helpful and legally sound description of what the Supreme Court ...
The New York Times and the Felon Disenfranchisement "Big Lie"
In an article Saturday on the efforts being made to register convicted felons for voting, the New York Times asserts in passing that felon disenfranchisement laws are "often a holdover from exclusionary Jim Crow-era laws like poll taxes and ballot ...
Ph.D. Completion Gaps
Articles in Insider Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education today discuss new data being published. IHE concludes: "Generally, foreign, male, and white students are more likely to earn their doctorates after 10 years than are their counterparts who are ...
Re: USA Today on Legacy Preferences
The opposing view to the newspaper's was
Re: The Felon Vote
I like Mark's idea of a naturalization-style process for the restoration of (some) felons' voting rights, as noted earlier on The Corner.
NYT on 'Obama's Delicate Path on Class and Race Preferences'
The gist of this article is that Obama has made intriguing moves toward endorsing wealth-based, rather than race-based, preferences — but that he, and especially, his political fellow travelers, are reluctant to give up on the latter when there is still ...
That House Resolution Apologizing for Slavery
Here's a link to its actual text: Predictably tendentious, and pointless (unless the idea is to keep white people on the hook – oh, wait, of course: That IS the point). The House is apologizing on all our behalf, BTW.
McCain Does the Right Thing on Racial Preferences
Senator John McCain said today that he supports the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative, which would ban preferences based on race, ethnicity, and sex in the state's public contracting, education (including university admissions), and employment programs. Essentially identical initiatives will ...
The FCC and Quotas
The Federal Communications Commission is attempting to extract a commitment to racial quotas as its price for approving the XM-Sirius radio merger, explained here by the Mountain States Legal Foundation in its excellent press release (and in its equally excellent ...
The NYT's Race Poll and Affirmative Action
There's a good post (as usual) by John Rosenberg on his Discriminations blog.
Re: Racist Pot Calls Kettle A Bigot
Jonah, here's a simple solution for your correspondent: The next time he does his training, he should simply say, "You know, someone once said, 'And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest ...
More on Obama and English
This youtube clip was discussed here yesterday — but I'm told that today it's become the most-watched, most-commented-on item, so I thought I'd repost it, with some thoughts. What's disturbing about it is this: No, Obama does ...
Carol, Please Clarify ...
… What you mean by this sentence: "Given this, perhaps things are as they should be for now." Surely you don't mean you support the status quo(ta), that Asians get discriminated against in education, and get discriminated in favor ...
The Jesse Helms "Racial Quota" Ad
Predictably, liberal obituaries will mention prominently the famous–the Left says infamous–TV ad that Jesse Helms used to defeat Harvey Gantt in 1990. Here's an example already, which also allows you to view the ad. Sorry, but the ad ...
Viewbook Diversity vs. Real Diversity
That's the title of an article in Inside Higher Ed today about a new sociological study finding that black students appear in college brochures in greater numbers than they actually appear in student bodies. The article begins with a ...
The Editors Are Right
Excellent editorial today on the homepage, re: some silly employment-discrimination bills pending in Congress, supported by Hillary and Barack. Here's my similar take.
Silly Apology
On February 26, the Senate passed a "Resolution of Apology to Native Peoples of the United States." It is now pending in the House of Representatives. First it makes "findings," one of which is that "the policies of the Federal Government ...
If Society Gains, Society Should Pay
According to The New York Times, "The Bush administration is about to propose far-reaching new rules that would give people with disabilities greater access to tens of thousands of courtrooms, swimming pools, golf courses, stadiums, theaters, hotels and retail stores." ...
Harvey Mansfield on 'The Cost of Affirmative Action'
…to Harvard's faculty.
Creepy Bean-Counting
Here's a creepy story in today's Chronicle of Higher Education about racial and ethnic classifications in academia. It calls to mind an opinion written years ago by Justice Stevens (before he went over to the Dark Side), in ...
James Webb, Barack Obama, and Affirmative Action
Yesterday Senator James Webb (D-Virginia), who's being mentioned as a veep possibility for Obama, stuck up for the gun-totin', church-clingin' white folks in his neck of the woods, saying that Obama's lack of support there is not because ...
Be Happy
Following up on Tom Wolfe's parting advice in his wonderful interviews with Peter Robinson this week, here's something to be happy about: The upcoming McCain-Obama campaign is going to be a good thing for E pluribus unum. Most ...
Re: Saletan
Robert, maybe I'm being too charitable, but my interpretation of Saletan is just that he has belatedly but happily come to the conclusion that, rather than make racial generalizations (in medical prescriptions or college admissions), we should judge people ...
The As-Usual Ignored Questions
There's a long article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today about two studies showing that the allegedly "excessive weight" given SAT scores by the admission offices of elite colleges is "complicat[ing] their pursuit of diversity," meaning the ...
Silly New York Times Editorial
Alas, the New York Times editorial board did not have the benefit of Saturday's NR editorial on "Wright Game" and so it published that day its own editorial excoriating the North Carolina GOP ad attacking Rev. Wright, and by ...
More on Obama and Affirmative Action
I wanted to pass along a good point that I just got, rather obliquely, from the Washington Post of all places.The justification Obama gave during the debate last week for affirmative action is what we lawyers call the "societal ...
The Dems Debate Affirmative Action
Ever the optimist, I'm heartened that neither candidate was jumping up and down to defend racial preferences. Obama asserted, "I still believe in affirmative action," but it sounds pretty watered down: Race might get you a preference, but only ...
The Struggle Continues
Two items were in the news yesterday, both highlighting the continuing struggle against racial preferences in university admissions. First, the National Association of Scholars posted an interesting analysis by Terry Pell, who heads the Center for Individual Rights, on it ...
Re: Harvard Gym Matter
Sahil K. Mahtani — whom I lauded here — has an interesting piece at The New Republic regarding Harvard's decision to ban men from one of its gyms during certain hours. Seems that the policy was not a concession to Muslim ...
The Racial Conversation
In my NRO column today, I join Jonah and Bill Kristol in ridiculing the notion that America needs more discussion of race. In this regard, though, I want to mention something about Sunday's Washington Post editorial that, predictably, urges ...
Politics As Usual
It's hard to imagine how someone who listened to this speech, and who had followed at all the controversy of the last few days, could still view Obama as somehow transcending politics. It's a speech, and a controversy, ...
Speaking of sunshine . . .
Per Candace's post yesterday, any higher-ed sunshine act – whether federal or state – should include a requirement that schools disclose (A) whether they use racial and ethnic admission preferences and, if so, (B) how the school ensures that such preferences ...
Let's Sue Somebody
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings for Grace Becker, who has been nominated to head the Justice Department's civil-rights division. Senator Kennedy will preside, and you can be sure that he will use this platform ...


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1899 Locomobile at the start of the 2009 London to Brighton veteran car rally. This one is still largely original – including the original 1899 boiler. The car is being driven by Steven Theobald. This year's run was one of the wettest on record with high winds and torrential rain all the way to Brighton.