Tag: Racism

Fact Check: Did Chick-fil-A’s CEO Make a Disparaging Racist Statement?

Holmes Lybrand · February 19, 2018 9:57 pm

President Trump entered office with the most ostentatious promises, but, ironically, his tenure could end up remembered more like Silent Calvin Coolidge than Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Making presidents less great again

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced much controversy after he referred to the "Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement" at a conference last week. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

If you take offense at ‘Anglo-American,’ you probably aren’t very smart

Dan Hannan · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

An official at the Air Force Academy apologized for "microaggressions" after Master Sgt. Zachary Parish wrote Wednesday in a school-wide email on haircut standards: "He was never seen with a gaudy chain around his neck, his pants below his waistline, or with a backwards baseball hat on during public appearances." (U.S. Air Force photo by Mike Kaplan / Wikimedia Commons)

Air Force Academy apologizes for ‘microaggressions’ after making Michael Jordan reference in email

Katie Leach · February 17, 2018 8:10 pm

James Damore, a former Google engineer fired in 2017 after writing a memo about the biological differences between men and women, challenged his firing and argued his memo was protected free speech. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

NLRB rejects complaint by Google worker fired for diversity memo

Sean Higgins · February 16, 2018 10:49 pm

More than 50 Democrats, led by top Senate Banking Committee Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio, (pictured above) wrote Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting director Mick Mulvaney Friday to warn that reorganizing the bureau's Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity and removing its enforcement role "will frustrate the CFPB's efforts to ensure all 'consumers are protected from unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts and practices and from discrimination.'" (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Democrats press Mick Mulvaney on CFPB fair lending enforcement

Joseph Lawler · February 16, 2018 6:39 pm

Local law enforcement has not been able to find any connection between shooter Nikolas Cruz and the Tallahassee-based paramilitary group the Republic of Florida Militia. (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

No ties found between Parkland shooter, white nationalist group

Katelyn Caralle · February 16, 2018 12:41 pm

Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James has made his disapproval for President Trump well known. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

LeBron James: Trump doesn’t ‘give a f—-‘ about Americans

Diana Stancy Correll · February 15, 2018 10:01 pm

In this photo from Thursday, law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Nikolas Cruz was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday, the day after he opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon at the school. The Anti-Defamation League also said Republic of Florida leader Jordan Jereb told them that Cruz, 19, was associated with his white supremacist group. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Florida school shooting suspect had ties to white supremacist group

Caitlin Yilek · February 15, 2018 6:14 pm

The attorney general was simply referring to the English common law which serves as the literal foundation of our system of government. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Beltway Confidential

Jeff Sessions is not racist, and the outcry over ‘Anglo-American’ principles is idiocy

Philip Wegmann · February 13, 2018 6:19 pm

George Washington University president Thomas LeBlanc has announced a mandatory diversity training after a racist social media post rocked the campus. (Wikimedia Commons / Ralf Roletschek)

Red Alert Politics

GWU adopts mandatory diversity training after racist social media post

Jackson Richman · February 9, 2018 12:24 am

New Mexico's two Democratic senators, Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, criticized the Albuquerque Journal for running what they said was an offensive cartoon. (screenshot)

Lawmakers condemn Albuquerque Journal for controversial editorial cartoon

Mandy Mayfield · February 8, 2018 10:54 pm