I was the last one to sleep last night, and the first one up this morning. Lovely. I got up, checked my mail, got some breakfast, and then walked out the door at 8:30 am. Just as everyone else was waking up. Hardy did a great job preparing directions and materials […]
Another long, busy, successful day in Vermont. Thankfully it was a gorgeous day in the 50’s. We all got up at 6, showered, dressed, and were out the door at 7. We three (Dave Varney, Hardy Machia, & I), drove down to Rutland for the day. We had a 9 o’clock […]
Today began bright and early. I slept well, though briefly. After going to bed around 4:30, it was time to rise and shine at 8:30. Hardy, trooper that he is, got up even earlier. I started to write up my daily update, but couldn’t remember the login to this blog. […]
Yesterday was a long, long day. Woke up at 6 in hopes of getting out to pick up Dave by 8:30. Sadly I didn’t have much time this weekend to pack and prepare all the crap we needed for the trip, so I had to get it all done Monday morning. Then I updated the […]
Tomorrow, I and several other NYRA activists will travel to Vermont to begin what will be the most intensive, productive, and ambitious youth rights campaign of our short existence. This is a proud and important moment for the youth rights movement. For the next two weeks NYRA activists will be crisscrossing the state […]
As sometimes happens, one of my favorite online forums brought up the issue of IQ tests, and how they show black Americans (and even worse, black Africans) as a class score lower than whites:
But male/female differences are insignificant compared to the real hot potato: differences in the mean IQ of racial and ethnic groups. These […]
Another tragic school shooting. This time at an Indian reservation in Minnesota. My sympathy goes to the victims. Ten people killed, and a dozen wounded, the Washington Post reports:
Ten people were killed and more than a dozen were wounded yesterday by a gunman who opened fire at a high school and a […]
Muslims in Spain issued a fatwa against Osama bin Laden yesterday.
The ruling by the Islamic Commission of Spain, the main body representing the nation’s one million Muslims, came on the eve of the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, which were linked to the al-Qa’eda network.
10 bombs exploded on commuter trains in Madrid a […]
This is the response I wrote to a post by a new member to the NYRA Forums, and I figured it does a good job of introducing people to the cause who may have reservations or misunderstandings about it all, so I’m posting it here for everyone to enjoy:
Hey, thanks for joining the forums, and […]
Without realizing it as I wrote the earlier break down of Kennedy’s majority opinion for Roper v. Simmons, I seem to have made many of the same points Justice O’Connor made in her dissent.
She calls into question the assertion in the majority opinion that there is a substantive “consistency of direction” that […]