Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE:

THE JUDICIAL BRANCH’S SELF-MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES:

NOW, THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:

I’m not at all confident that it’s true, but I hope it is.

EVERYBODY WHO WAS ANYBODY IN WEST AFRICA WAS COMPLICIT IN THE SLAVE TRADE FOR CENTURIES:

Flashback: My Nigerian Grandfather Sold Slaves. “Nwaubani Ogogo lived in a time when the fittest survived and the bravest excelled. The concept of ‘all men are created equal’ was completely alien to traditional religion and law in his society. It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles. Assessing the people of Africa’s past by today’s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains, denying us the right to fully celebrate anyone who was not influenced by Western ideology.”

There’s a mythology that white slave traders ran around the bush kidnapping Africans, but that’s bunk, of course — they’d pretty much all have died. They bought African slaves from Africans. My brother talked to people in Ghana about that some years ago, and they reflected little guilt: Back then if you lost a war, you either died or were enslaved. That’s just how it worked.

One of the reasons Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon couldn’t get published when she wrote it was that the black literary community didn’t like that it portrayed the extent of African complicity in slavery. But history is history, despite efforts to rewrite it.

HER SOPHOMORIC GRANDSTANDING ISN’T IMPRESSING ANYONE, LEFT OR RIGHT: Justice Alito Just Took Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Cleaners. “Now, with this judgment, there was a harsh rebuke of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent, where Justice Alito, in an academic tone, essentially called her a reckless clown who doesn’t understand the law. We’ve seen a similar attitude on the liberal side as well, with Justices Kagan or Sotomayor disagreeing with the majority but avoiding Jackson’s dissents since they usually don’t make much sense. It led to a barrel of laughs on social media.”

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THE ENEMY WITHIN: New Jersey Dem Congressional Candidate Testified on Behalf of Terror Mastermind ‘Blind Sheikh’: Adam Hamawy, running to represent the state’s 12th district, told prosecutors he had a yearslong relationship with the cleric whose followers carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Is anyone surprised, at this point?

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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE:

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THE RAMPANT POLITICIZATION OF THE JUDICIARY IS RAMPING UP:

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

ADD THIS TO THE LIST OF LEFTIST VIOLENCE:

THIS:

AS THE BRITS SAY (OR USED TO), TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL:

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OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SO MUCH LEFTY VIOLENCE: