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Time.com Essay: Affirmative Action & White Women

In advance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Fisher v. University of Texas, I’ve written an essay for Time Magazine’s website about how white women are the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action. Here’s an excerpt:

While people of color, individually and as groups, have been helped by affirmative action in the subsequent years, data [...]

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Fox News Column: Partisanship vs. Civic Duty

In my latest column for Fox News, I look at why progressives have been (understandably) reluctant to pile onto reckless Republican critiques of the Obama Administration. And yet even though Republicans are hell-bent on destroying the President at any cost, those of us who care about our nation and our liberties cannot abdicate our [...]

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Fox News Clip: Michelle Obama Heckled

My mixed reaction to the heckling of First Lady Michelle Obama. I believe in the right of all Americans, left right and center, to protest. But I also believe in civility, especially in the case of a First Family that has been treated with record incivility. Watch the segment, courtesy of Fox News:


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EVENT, June 3 in NYC: Moderating Mayoral Forum

On Monday, June 3 from 6:00 – 8:00pm in Manhattan I’ll be moderating a forum with the leading candidates to be the next mayor of New York City. The forum is hosted by the Council of Urban Professionals and will include Christine Quinn, Bill Thompson, John Liu, Adolfo Carrión, Anthony Weiner and Bill de Blasio. [...]

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Obama v. Bush AIPAC Speeches

By On March 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Now that it’s an election year, we shall once again witness a bunch of people who don’t usually care about religious freedom for anyone but conservative Christians suddenly declare their allegiance to the state of Israel and their brotherhood with Jews worldwide. Ah, politics…. Anyway, President Obama is being maligned as an anti-Israel extremist, despite the fact that he’s pushed some of the same peace proposals and used much of the same rhetoric as his Republican predecessor.

So I took a look at President Obama’s speech last week (March 4, 2012) to the hawkish, ultra-conservative American-Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC) and compared it to President George W. Bush’s speech to AIPAC in 2004. I then put both into the handy site Wordle. The results?

Here’s Obama:

Here’s Bush:

These show the top 20 words that each used in their respective speeches. Now, I do not equate being sympathetic with the conditions of the Palestinian people with being either anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. However, do note that “Palestinian” is in President Bush’s top 20 words… NOT in President Obama’s.

As with the deficit and government spending, yet again conservatives who paid no mind when Bush was president are suddenly howling at President Obama. Oy!

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