The utter failure of affirmative action racial preferences is creating a national conversation on ending the state-sponsored discrimination that has been public policy for decades.  The only question is how vicious the defenders of the failed policy will be in denouncing those who dare to think forbidden thoughts. Michel Barone makes the case in the Washington Examiner for ending affirmative action racial preferences: When a policy has been vigorously followed by venerable institutions for more than a generation without getting any closer to producing the desired results, perhaps there is some problem with the goal. That thought was prompted by a New York Times story headlined "Even with Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 years ago." It presented enrollment data from 100 selective colleges and universities – the eight Ivy League schools, nine University of California campuses, 20...(Read Full Post)