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July 17, 2023
Corporate America is slashing DEI amid backlash to diversity programs.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/corporate-america-slashing-dei-workers-amid-backlash-diversity/story?id=100477952
July 15, 2023
Study finds that 82% of transgender people want to kill themselves.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/28/health/transgender-suicide-risk/index.html
July 11, 2023
Byron Raymond White—a nondoctrinaire pragmatist—will be remembered primarily for his individualistic approach to law and secondarily for his early career as a professional athlete. Hailing from the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado, White was born on June 8, 1917 to Alpha Albert White and Maude Elizabeth Burger. While his beginnings were modest and his parents did not complete high school, White nevertheless excelled as a scholar and athlete. He graduated valedictorian of his high school and earned an athletic scholarship for football to the University of Colorado at Boulder.
At Colorado, White played collegiate football as a halfback. He earned All-American decorations and received the nickname “Whizzer,” which followed him for the rest of his life. White won a Rhodes Scholarship to study medicine at the University of Oxford upon graduating, but deferred for a year in order to play professional football. He was selected in Round 1 of the 1938 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Pittsburgh Steelers). He played only one season, but led the entire league in rushing yards as a rookie and earned the highest salary in the sport at the time. After leaving the NFL, White traveled to England to complete his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford’s Hertford College in 1939, but soon returned to the States when World War II began. Upon his return, White entered Yale Law School, obtaining the highest grades in his class the first year. In a move unthinkable by today’s standards, White took a leave of absence from law school to play the 1940-1941 football seasons with the Detroit Lions. His legal education remained unfinished when he entered the U.S. Navy in 1942. While there, White served as an intelligence officer, where he met future president John F. Kennedy and befriended future justice John Paul Stevens. After the war ended, White finally earned his law degree from Yale in 1946...
https://www.oyez.org/justices/byron_r_white
Supreme Court Justice Byron T. White, 1917-2002
Byron Raymond White—a nondoctrinaire pragmatist—will be remembered primarily for his individualistic approach to law and secondarily for his early career as a professional athlete. Hailing from the small town of Fort Collins, Colorado, White was born on June 8, 1917 to Alpha Albert White and Maude Elizabeth Burger. While his beginnings were modest and his parents did not complete high school, White nevertheless excelled as a scholar and athlete. He graduated valedictorian of his high school and earned an athletic scholarship for football to the University of Colorado at Boulder.
At Colorado, White played collegiate football as a halfback. He earned All-American decorations and received the nickname “Whizzer,” which followed him for the rest of his life. White won a Rhodes Scholarship to study medicine at the University of Oxford upon graduating, but deferred for a year in order to play professional football. He was selected in Round 1 of the 1938 NFL draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates (now the Pittsburgh Steelers). He played only one season, but led the entire league in rushing yards as a rookie and earned the highest salary in the sport at the time. After leaving the NFL, White traveled to England to complete his Rhodes scholarship at Oxford’s Hertford College in 1939, but soon returned to the States when World War II began. Upon his return, White entered Yale Law School, obtaining the highest grades in his class the first year. In a move unthinkable by today’s standards, White took a leave of absence from law school to play the 1940-1941 football seasons with the Detroit Lions. His legal education remained unfinished when he entered the U.S. Navy in 1942. While there, White served as an intelligence officer, where he met future president John F. Kennedy and befriended future justice John Paul Stevens. After the war ended, White finally earned his law degree from Yale in 1946...
https://www.oyez.org/justices/byron_r_white
June 27, 2023
SCOTUS just overturned a criminal conviction of a man stalking a woman.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-supreme-court-sides-man-143840756.html
June 17, 2023
Large protest developing at Dodger Stadium
May 16, 2023
Can the progressive viewpoint coexist with the teachings of Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman...
...regarding the so-called "Welfare State"?
May 7, 2023
Reparations for Black Slavery; A Proposal re: "40 Acres and a Mule"
With this country's renewed interest in slavery reparations, I think it is important to recognize what the original promise was.
In Georgia, General Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule for every former slave. This was also referenced in the Freemans Bureau. That promise was not simply a transfer of wealth. (40 acres + mule.). Rather it was the promise of self-determined labor. There was no promise of success or profits.
So if we are going to finally fulfill this promise 200+ years later, I think it would be a mistake to issue lumpsum payments because that is merely a transfer of wealth. I think the more analogous remedy would be free tuition at any state university or trade school.
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