LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Michigan law that bans racial and gender preferences in government hiring and university admissions.

The ruling on Tuesday upholds the constitutionality of a measure approved by Michigan voters in 2006. It had been challenged by groups including the NAACP and the pro-affirmative action group By Any Means Necessary.

The latter group says it will appeal the ruling by U.S. District Judge David Lawson.

AP

Apparently, the NAACP’s idea of equality means everyone gets treated the same except for black Americans who get special preference.  American society has evolved well beyond the point of needing the government to dictate integration among the races and genders and institutionalizing discrimination on the majority to give the minority an upper hand is just as bad as the inverse equation.

There will always be prejudice and bigotry as long as human beings walk the earth.  Everybody to at least a small minimum holds some kind of prejudice be it towards different people, different ideas, different lifestyles, etc.  It’s human nature, but  the days of the majority oppressing the rest is long behind us.  The racial and gender barriers in this country came down a long time ago and nobody is kept from fulfilling their ambitions because they are black, or female, or of a minority religion.  In today’s America if you aren’t succeeding it’s through no other fault than your own.

“Memo to Fed: Stop Those Rate Cuts”

This is exactly how I feel on the matter, and these two gentlemen who are much more learned than I am can explain it in fuller terms than I. The Fed needs to quit inflating our currency and just let our markets tough it out, because if they continue to make rate cuts they will only push inflation even higher and result in stagflation.

I guess his speech writers are West Wing fans as well as Deval Patrick fans:

West Wing Season 2 Ep.2 (In the shadow of two Gunmen) 38 mins 50 sec

Bartlet: “what began on the commons in Concord, Massachusetts, as an alliance of farmers and workers, of cobbles man and tinsmiths, of statesmen and students,…”

Obama’s speech today (from Drudge)

Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.