Ed Schultz closes his eyes to history. While chiding Glenn Beck for his cherishing the U.S. Constitution, MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz repeated one of the most oft-repeated lies about the Founding Fathers: they considered blacks less than fully human. In an episode of “Psycho Talk,” Schultz blasted Beck for saying “Progressives” believe individuals are the problem, and “in Samuel … [Read more...]
Now I’m Only Going to Say This Once: The Three-Fifths Compromise
October 26, 2009 By Ben Johnson
Filed Under: Academia, Affirmative Action/Race, Conspiracy theories, Constitution, History, Left-wing Hatred, NewsRealblog Tagged With: abolitionism, abolitionists, Amsterdam, Ben Johnson, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, Founding Fathers, Fugitive Slave Clause, Gen. Charles Pickney, Glenn Beck, Gouverneur Morris, Institutional Racism, James Madison, Louis Farrakhan, Media bias, MSNBC, National Football League (NFL), News, NewsRealblog, Pennsylvania, Pierce Butler, Politics, Psycho Talk, Racism, Samuel Adams, slavery, South Carolina, The Ed Show, Three-Fifths Compromise
Sotomayor’s Racialist Judicial Activism
June 26, 2009 By Ben Johnson
This article originally appeared as the weekend lead for Friday, June 26, 2009. Five months later, it was chosen for inclusion in Opposing Viewpoints, America's Prisons, vol. 2. The inclusion is a special honor for me. Not only is the Opposing Viewpoints series in nearly every high school library in the country, but it provides an invaluable service: fairly representing conflicting views on an … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Affirmative Action/Race, Bill Clinton, Constitution, FrontPage Magazine, History, Obama administration, Obama appointees Tagged With: Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, BlackLetter Law Journal, California, capital punishment, Civil Rights, Constitution, cultural bias, death penalty, Department of Justice, disparate impact, disproportionate impact, felon disenfranchisement, Founding Fathers, Fourteenth Amendment, FrontPage Magazine, Harry Blackmun, Harvard, Hayden v. Pataki, Institutional Racism, Jason Schall, Jeffrey Reimen, John Roberts, Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, judicial activism, LatinoJustice, Legal Left, Maine, meritocracy, Minnesota, minority racism, negative liberties, NYPD, Obama appointees, Ohio, Opposing Viewpoints, Oregon, Pericles, Princeton, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Reagan administration, Rep. Ephraim R. Eckley, reparations, reverse discrimination, Ricci v. Stefano, Richardson v. Ramirez, Sonia Sotomayor, stare decisis, Supreme Court, testing bias, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, Vermont, Voting Rights Act, Warren Burger, wealth redistribution, William Rehnquist, Yale Law School
The Capitol Police Slap Back
April 5, 2006 By Ben Johnson
THE FAR-LEFT HAS BEEN GIVING THE CAPITOL POLICE A BEATING, literally and figuratively. This week, the good guys finally stood up for themselves – and the law. The “confrontation” between Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-GA, and a Capitol policeman grew out of the police force’s kid gloves treatment of another left-wing protester. Although the media focused on her inappropriate attire, … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Affirmative Action/Race, Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy theories, Democrats, Feminism, FrontPage Magazine, Radical Left Tagged With: "The Situation Room", 2006 State of the Union, 9/11 Truthers, Al Gore, Alwaleed bin Talal, Barry Goldwater, Ben Johnson, Bill Clinton, Capitol police, Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, Danny Glover, Dennis Hastert, Dick Cheney, FrontPage Magazine, FrontPageMag.com, Harry Belafonte., Institutional Racism, Isaac Hayes, James Myart, Lawrence Summers, Louis Farrakhan, Nancy Pelosi, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Organization for Women (NOW), News, Politics, racial profiling, Racism, Romano Prodi, Ronnie Earle, Sergeant-at-Arms, Steny Hoyer, The Final Call (NOI newspaper), Tom DeLay, William H. Pickle, Wolf Blitzer
