Unca Darrell

JUNE 28 / The Houston Chronicle supports racial discrimination

ABIGAIL FISHER, white, was denied admission to the University of Texas. She had a better record than many black and Hispanic students who were admitted under the university's system of racial preferences. She was, in short, discriminated against on account of race. She complained and her case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which remanded the case this week.

Remand is legalese for avoiding a decision, for kicking the can down the road, for waiting for the next Obama court appointee to come along and further legitimize racial discrimination. And diversity and affirmative action are the polite names given to . . .

JUNE 27 / The (incipient) Texas scandals no one except . . .

. . . the Wall Street Journal is covering.

AUSTIN, Texas -- On the 13th floor of a sleek downtown office building here, the trading desks are manned overnight. The chief investment officer favors cowboy boots made of elephant skin. And when a bet pays off, even the secretaries can be entitled to bonuses.

The office's occupant isn't a highflying hedge fund but the Teacher Retirement System of . . . 

JUNE 26 / Chronicle editorialists wear out the keyboard . . .

. . . demanding more government spending and regulation, but the third person of the newspaper's holy trinity -- more taxes -- gets far less ink. Who, after all, wants to admit that flinging ever more taxpayer dollars into the wind necessarily requires . . .

JUNE 25 / Melloan on Ferguson on declinism

DOOMSAYERS are never popular, but sometimes they're right. . . .

That maxim applies to the writings of . . .

JUNE 24 / Happy trails to . . .

. . . Texas Watchdog, the online source for the kind of Texas-based investigative journalism that newspapers used to, and still should, do.

Top dog Trent Seibert . . .

JUNE 23 / ObamaCare vs. arithmetic, human nature, and young people

[ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Sam] Alito pointed out that young, healthy adults today spend an average of $854 a year on health care. ObamaCare would require them to buy insurance policies expected to cost roughly . . . 

JUNE 22 / WSJ on Bernanke

IT'S BEN BERNANKE'S economy, and everyone else . . .

JUNE 21 / Pascal Bruckner on ecologism and apocalypse

CONSIDER the meaning in contemporary jargon of the famous carbon footprint . . . . What is it , after all, if not the gaseous equivalent of . . .

JUNE 20 / Norton on Benghazi

THERE ARE many causes for concern or outrage regarding the attack [on Benghazi] and its aftermath. But the heart of the scandal is this:

JUNE 19 / Ferguson on regulation

IN "DEMOCRACY in America," published in 1833, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the way Americans preferred voluntary association to government regulation. "The inhabitant of the United States," he wrote, "has only a defiant and restive regard . . .