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Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Warren’
LinkSwarm for May 16, 2012
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012A PhotoShop Contest to Reclaim Elizabeth Warren’s Tragically Lost Indian Heritage
Monday, May 14th, 2012For all the jokes about Fauxcahontas and the accusations of Affirmative Action fraud, I think we all know who the greatest victim of the blowup over Elizabeth Warren’s Indian ancestry: Elizabeth Warren herself.
Like so many native Americans, she’s been cut off from her people by the cruel actions of the white man. How can any of us of Native American ancestry (I’ve got some Crow and Blackfoot bumping around in my DNA) truly know our heritage, since the white man destroyed all our respective oral traditions in their relentless westward expansion? Is it any surprise that, so shorn of her roots, Elizabeth Warren is unable to pinpoint her Affirmative Action-qualifying Great-Great-Great-Grandmother?
It’s up to us, the great masses of the Internet, to heal Elizabeth’s Warren’s pain by recapturing her tragically lost Indian heritage.
I want those PhotoShop gurus among you (you know who you are) to depict Elizabeth Warren in the Native American traditions that the white man has so cruelly stripped from her past. Submit your artistic masterpiece to me here, either linked from the comments or via email. In two weeks time on Monday, May 28, I will choose the best submission and award a tasteful prize befitting the solemnity of the project.
LinkSwarm for May 4, 2012
Friday, May 4th, 2012Just because I endorsed Ted Cruz doesn’t mean I’ve given up doing Texas Senate Race Updates, it’s just that I have other fish to fry this week.
Warren is playing an important role in our political discourse: she is the ghost of liberalism future. Warren’s alleged use of affirmative action, if true, would have to be the most egregious abuse of the system at the expense of minorities we’ve seen yet. Elizabeth Warren is, as a white woman, statistically speaking very much a member of this country’s majority. The only category in which she is a true minority is wealth: Elizabeth Warren is very, very rich… If Warren, a rich, white, Harvard professor, is a victim, everyone is.
Why does this matter? Because it reveals that the left thinks affirmative action is a joke, another cudgel with which to attack political opponents at the expense of minorities who might, thanks to liberalism’s insistence on keeping students in failed school districts, actually put the policy to some good use. And because if Elizabeth Warren is unable to advance coherent liberal policy arguments, then there may be none to advance.
“This Year Is Different”
Thursday, March 1st, 2012In the 2010 special election to replace fill the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown, with massive support from the newly organized Tea Party, managed to eek out a win in a Republican wave year by just under 5 points.
But this year is different. This year the Obama Reelection machine is in full gear, Democrats won’t be caught napping again, and instead of the hapless Martha Coakley, Brown is facing liberal darling and Occupy Mama Bear Elizabeth Warren, who has already raised almost $9 million.
This year Scott Brown is leading Warren by ten points.
(Hat tip: Instapundit.)