[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] No remarks about the neighborhood corner drug hustlers. It looks like a pretty professional operation — mom-led rather than kid-led. At least the authorities only told them to stop trying to hire other kids, rather than actively seeking to punish them for setting up a successful business.
Cristal Johnson and her son Cam set up the stand to save money to go to Disney
The duo was looking for kids aged between 6 and 10 to help Cam with the stand
Each child would be paid $20 after a two-hour shift helping to sell lemonade
[TheFirearmBlog] A federal judge has vacated the ATF Final Rule that changed the definition of what constitutes a firearm under federal law in the United States. I am going to leave the full legal analysis to someone more qualified such as our own Daniel Y., but the big takeaway here is that the U.S. Congress passes laws that agencies are entrusted to enforce, not to redefine as they deem appropriate. Please see the press release from the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) at the end of this article.
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[The Federalist] It's often incredibly surreal to remember that concepts and arguments from the left are at all taken seriously in this country. Reading Justice Ketanji "Black Girl Magic" Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinion in the college race-based admissions case is truly one of those times.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against institutions of higher education using race as a factor in the admissions process, which prestigious ones like Harvard have been doing for years in order to artificially boost black and Hispanic enrollment, at the expense of white and Asian applicants.
In essence, the court determined that it violates the 14th Amendment for colleges and universities to prefer some races over others, a concept traditionally known as racism. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion, "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
And then there’s Jackson, who professed to believe in the opposite. "Our country has never been colorblind," she said in her dissent. She said that in reality, because race-based admissions "help to address" past discrimination against blacks, they are actually "to the benefit of us all."
Hear that, Asian applicants? Losing a spot at Harvard to someone of lower academic achievement is actually to your benefit! You should be saying thank you.
Jackson then chronicled every way in which blacks are at a disadvantage — including in fictional ways — asserting that the only way to remedy the matter was to then compensate black Americans with preferential treatment. "The only way out of this morass—for all of us—is to stare at racial disparity unblinkingly," she wrote, "and then do what evidence and experts tell us is required to level the playing field and march forward together, collectively striving to achieve true equality for all Americans."
It’s unclear whether Jackson knows that she’s a sitting justice charged with determining whether policies are constitutionally sound and not an academic theorizing on what a perfect world might look like.
"If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away," she continued. "It will take longer for racism to leave us. And, ultimately, ignoring race just makes it matter more."
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Just maybe; I mean maybe. The Supreme Court just called an end to the experiment based on the terrible results and outcomes from the reverse discrimination. The Constitution always provided clear direction why AA was illegal.
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^ in the final arguments of the FDR administration before SCOTUS, they stipulated it was a tax not a pension system. During the Johnson administration and Donk controlled Congress they effectively did away with dual bookkeeping and merged it into the main tax stream.
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We have had about 60+/- years,since Affirmative Action was started in the 1960's. That's at least 3 generations. In some states Affirmative Action started in the 50's, so even longer.
So why is it still needed?
Shouldn't we be hiring the BEST to fill jobs instead hiring based on Race/Color for votes?
Where is the incentive for a person to be their best if they get a free ride or Pass?
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The fact that they eliminated affirmative action in private universities but kept it at service academies is sort of upside down.
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This was the best week the Constitution has had since 1789.
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Gavin Newsome issued a statement condemning the Supreme Court's decision. California did away with affirmative action years ago. Dipshit.
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Pretty much everyone who has come out saying "I'm an affirmative action success story" since the ruling is a testimony to how much AA needed to end.
Also they are testimonials to utter lack of self-awareness.
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Ep. 8 Rick from Boston is telling us he wants to be known as female Admiral Rachel Levine. Accept his lie or pay the consequences, bigot. pic.twitter.com/otDl5EITYs
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I believe that he is truly enjoying the freedom of not being an employee submissive to oversight. With each of these episodes, I sense a pleasure, in him, of a 10 year old launching an Estes Alpha rocket packed with cherry bombs into our culture. It is glorious destruction.
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Like everybody else. Twitter is a mess right now.
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