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The Supreme Court Has No Legal Reason to End Affirmative Action. But Its Political Reason Is Compelling.

Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 6:12 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Based on legal reasoning, precedents, and the justices’ sworn representations, the Supreme Court has no legal reason to end Affirmative Action in college admissions. But it had no legal reason to end a woman’s constitutional abortion rights. Yet the Court did so anyway. Mend, do not end, Affirmative Action Those arguing to end Affirmative Action insist… Read more.

Adidas Cancels Kanye

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 8:36 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

This morning, Adidas cut ties with Kanye West over his antisemitic rantings. It is the latest of many corporations to answer the pleas of Jewish leaders to do so. ‘I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because… Read more.

Jackass Kanye to Buy Parler to Parlay His Ignorance and Hate

Monday, October 17, 2022 at 2:19 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Kanye is a Jackass Thirteen years ago, former President Obama called Kanye West a Jackass. In a commentary last week, I delineated the many ways Kanye proceeded to prove Obama right.  Now Kanye’s new BFF Candace Owens is using him to prove the age-old adage that a fool and his money are soon parted. Kanye West is going into business with… Read more.

Kanye West, the ‘Jackass’-cum-Cuckold-cum-Antisemite, Becomes Social-Media Outcast

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 6:31 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Kanye West (aka Ye) spent much of last summer bullying Pete Davidson, his ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, on social media. This, because he could no more accept losing Kim to Pete than Donald Trump could accept losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. But Kanye had the last laugh, which I decried in “Kanye,… Read more.

Why Would Brett Favre Conspire With White Politicians in Mississippi to Steal Millions in Welfare Benefits from Poor Black Folks?

Friday, September 16, 2022 at 6:17 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

How is this possible we all wondered… After all, this is America, the richest country in the world. What’s more, that notorious water crisis in Flint, Michigan, saw crooked politicians end up in jail. So we thought that ensured something like this would never happen again. Read more.

New York City Is Being Led by a Black Mayor, Commissioner, and DA for the First Time. Is That Why Crime Is Soaring?

Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 10:12 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

No. For starters, crime is not soaring. It’s at historic lows. In fact, the incidence of everything from murder to rape and petty theft was five times higher in the 1980s and early 1990s than it is today. Perception vs. reality But thanks to social media, so many crimes get viral coverage, almost every crime… Read more.

But 8 Cops Did Not Have to Shoot Jayland Walker 60 Times…

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 6:18 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Those of us of a certain age remember well the 41 shots cops fired at unarmed Amadou Diallo on the stoop of his building in 1999. They mistook him for a serial rapist; but then tried to cover up their mistake by accusing him variously as a suspected mugger and a drug dealer. None of… Read more.

NY Times Exposes Fox News Tucker Carlson as a Racist. Duh

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 6:47 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

The liberal intelligentsia are heaping Pulitzer praise on The New York Times for a series that exposes Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a racist. But count me out. Because this is rather like getting all atwitter over an investigative series that exposes Donald Trump as a liar. Duh. Here is how the eponymous “Intelligencer”… Read more.

Senate Confirms Jackson First Black Woman on Supreme Court

Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 7:51 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

“A picture is worth a thousand words” Never before in the history of American politics has that adage been more apropos than everything this picture says about this time in America’s fraught march toward a more perfect union. But I’d be remiss not to comment on the fact that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina,… Read more.

Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearing: And Still I Rise…

Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 7:36 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

By congressional practice, the confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson gave senators an opportunity to examine her fitness to sit on the Supreme Court. But Republicans on the Judiciary Committee seized it to peddle conspiracies and pander to the MAGA kooks who now compose the base of their party. Jackson wrote over 570 opinions during… Read more.