WELCOME TO AMERICA IN THE AGE OF OBAMA, ASIANS! For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions.

Lee’s next slide shows three columns of numbers from a Princeton University study that tried to measure how race and ethnicity affect admissions by using SAT scores as a benchmark. It uses the term “bonus” to describe how many extra SAT points an applicant’s race is worth. She points to the first column.

African Americans received a “bonus” of 230 points, Lee says.
She points to the second column.

“Hispanics received a bonus of 185 points.”

The last column draws gasps.

Asian Americans, Lee says, are penalized by 50 points — in other words, they had to do that much better to win admission.

“Do Asians need higher test scores? Is it harder for Asians to get into college? The answer is yes,” Lee says.

“Zenme keyi,” one mother hisses in Chinese. How can this be possible?

I know, lady, it sucks. You thought you were in America. But, see, they told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney, America would become a racist dystopia. And they were right!

THERE ARE DIFFERENCES: Boys with sticks.

THE LAW IS ALWAYS IN OUR HANDS:  And sometimes people enforce it.  Hero Bystanders Dish Out a Painful Dose of Karma to Alleged Woman Beater.  Note this was a frequent flyer of our judicial system.

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE: Morning Star, Dave Freer, $2.99.

ALL IS NOT AS IT SEEMS: These evil British colonizers of Africa and the institution of slavery.

MAYBE: Hillary is toast.  (Podcast.)

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE: Here Be Dragons, Sarah A. Hoyt, $2.99

ONLY THE POLITICS COUNT, COMRADE:Meet the… *snort* …”competition.

SPEAKING OF THINGS THAT DON’T GO AWAY: The story changes, but the prescription is always more government.

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE: The Cunning Blood, Jeff Duntemann, 2.99

JUST LIKE ROCK AND ROLL, IT’S HERE TO STAY: Media: The Hillary Clinton Email Scandal Just Won’t Go Away.

LABOR: The dignity of work & the restoration of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE: Pixie Noir, by Cedar Sanderson, $1.99

IT’S LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO MAKE COLLEGE A HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR MALE STUDENTS. Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX.

Contrary to OCR’s weird, unjust, and illogical interpretation of Title IX, no court has ever found an institution in violation of Title IX, or any federal law against sexual harassment, for failure to remove an accused person from proximity to the complainant when the accused was not actually guilty of severe sexual harassment. Indeed, courts often rule for institutions sued for harassment even when the accused individual was guilty, and the institution either never removed the accused from proximity to the complainant (even after disciplining him), or only removed him after he was found guilty, and declined to do so while an investigation was pending.

OCR has discouraged colleges from allowing cross-examination by the accused, even though the Supreme Court described cross-examination as the “greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth” in Lilly v. Virginia (1999), and even though a judge required a college to allow cross-examination in Donohue v. Baker (1997).

It has also sought to gut the presumption of innocence. The Yale Law Journal noted in 1987 that “courts, universities, and student defendants all seem to agree that the appropriate standard of proof in student disciplinary cases is one of ‘clear and convincing’ evidence.” But in an April 4, 2011 letter to the nation’s colleges, the Office for Civil Rights declared this standard illegal in sexual harassment and assault cases.

Smacking of double jeopardy, it has also forced colleges like Southern Methodist University to review past dismissals of complaints (even when those dismissals were not challenged by any complainant), and resolve them to OCR’s liking — potentially resulting in discipline of a student previously found not guilty a year or two earlier.

And it has sought to redefine constitutionally-protected speech as verbal “sexual harassment,” such as by telling colleges like Harvard and MSU to regulate off-campus conduct (apparently including speech on the “internet“), and by pressuring Tufts to regulate academic speech not even “directed at” the complainant (generally protected under the 2010 Rodriguez decision).

You’d almost think that the Education Department’s “Office Of Civil Rights” was run by a bunch of man-hating harpies.

PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY WORK: Charter school law funded by Bill Gates in Washington state ruled unconstitutional.

IT’S STILL UGLY: The bigger picture behind the European refugee crisis.

BUT FRANCE HAS A PONY: ‘No Other Advanced Country’.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Cookbooks, Food & Wine.

GALLERY: Photos of NYC made by a German photographer Thomas Hoepker in 1983. I think one of these pictures captures Cosmo Kramer during his earlier Punk phase.

UH OH: Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton’s Email. “A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.”

SPENGLER: THE PRICE OF EUROPE’S FECKLESSNESS: “In Luis Bunuel’s eponymous 1961 film, the young postulant Viridiana leaves her convent to claim her uncle’s rural estate, and creates a refuge for local beggars. They ransack her house in a bachannalia staged to lampoon the Last Supper, and a couple of them rape her. The classic film should be mandatory viewing for European officials caught up in refugee euphoria. This is going to end very, very badly.”

UH OH: EXCLUSIVE: In Damage Control Mode, Cory Booker Invites Jews to Emergency Summit; Senator scrambles to save face—and future contributions—in the wake of support for Iran deal.

My advice to the Jews: Make an example of him.

REVEALED: How George W. Bush Saved Georgia From Russia.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Roundup: Alcohol’s Effects On Physique And Performance.

LIFE IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: Haunting photos of a dead Ohio mall in ruins. “It’s a scary time for the retail industry.”

Perhaps things haven’t come all that far from the early days of hope and change, when this iconic photo captured the national mood.