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Why isn't this in my quote books? Holland is an extremely neat and well-ordered mud-puddle, situated at the confluence of the English, F...

Show her a country whose entire population will likely permanently collapse into grinding poverty if its favorable trade status is ended! Me...

I just found out I beat a Rhodes Scholar in debate! Allow me to explain. My first ever round of varsity LD in high school (sophomore year), ...

The founder of the Black Panther Party wrote this essay "the women's liberation and gay liberation movements" on August 15, 19...

In response to comments to this post , I decided to take a quick gander through the internets to find the percentage of students of color at...

Lou Dobbs is floating a Presidential bid. Via The Plank , which notes, reassuringly, that this is almost definitely just a ratings plug for...

Reacting to Andrew Sullivan's lament that Mitt Romney's campaign may be doomed by Christian Right opposition to the idea of voting ...

It's my girlfriend's birthday today! Everybody wish Jill a happy birthday! However, while I love and adore her, Jill is much bigger ...

United States Public Affairs Officer Frederick C. Jochem, Burma, 1947: A Burmese friend was astonished the other day when I told him that a ...

Earlier today, I linked to Professor Katherine Barnes' article debunking the claim that affirmative action causes minorities to be ...

I want to stress that there is nothing funny about the crippling drought that is currently affecting the state of Georgia. It's truly hu...

It's been awhile, but thanks to Concurring Opinion's "law review table of contents" project, finding neat articles is eas...

New Balloon Juice co-blogger Michael offers up his immigration plan . Put simply, it replaces the "family unification" objective w...

Good news and bad news for Democrats in the heart of Dixie. The bad news: Freshman Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has comfortable leads ove...

While I suppose I can admit that there might be a fuzzy line when a permissible interrogation tactic becomes torture, here's a good rule...

Tim Burke really deserves more links from me than he gets. He consistently writes smart, in-depth pieces on interesting topics. And yet, I c...

Over at BlackProf, Angela Onwuachi-Willig asks whether the opponents of affirmative action really -- as they so often claim -- just want to...

Don't mean to stack up on y'all, but this is too good to pass up . From Dr. Boyce Watkins, a Black professor: For example, in academ...

Daniel R. Ortiz, "Nice Legal Studies" : Many traditional liberals believe that keeping the public sphere free of religion is the o...

Another area where my teachers led me astray : having sex early makes teens less likely to engage in delinquency. Oh, if only I had been e...