The Bill of Wrongs:
The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006.
By Dahlia Lithwick

Yeah, you guessed it: DA Mike Nifong’s Hunt for the Great White Defendants in the Duke Lacrosse Frame-Up is a no-show. You see, the long-running pattern of hate crime hoaxes victimizing white male college students is nothing compared to, say, #8 on Lithwick’s List, the Bush Administration “Slagging the Media.”

In recent news, the hoax continues to implode. Nifong dropped the rape charges but is pressing on with other felony charges. Meanwhile, the North Carolina State Bar is investigating Nifong for ethics violations. And now the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys has asked him to recuse himself from the case. [Crossposted at Isteve.com]

Youtube video of Mary Katherine Ham doing a tour of Durham, North Carolina, talking about what didn’t happen, on the sites where it didn’t happen:

She also has a column with five good things you have not been told about the Duke Lacrosse Team, starting with the fact that unlike many athletic teams at Duke, they have a one hundred percent graduation rate. [Some good things about Duke Lacrosse for a change By Mary Katharine Ham, December 29, 2006]

If you saw my items on the Baytown rapist, Two Words Missing From This Headline, and Update On Homosexual Rape Case: Black Rapist, White Victims plus this letter, you may be wondering what’s going on with the case, and the MSM coverage of the case. Nicholas Stix has done an incredible amount of work trying to get the the Associated Press to answer questions. (Ask Michelle Malkin how easy it is to pry answers loose from the AP) The results are on his website, and while he was kind enough to give me ” tip o’ the hat ,” I have to say he’s done a lot more work. Read the whole thing.

Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: Another Associated Press Scandal: Wire Service Covers Up Black-Male-on-White-Male Rape Spree
December 28, 2006

By Nicholas Stix
Published 2:32 a.m., December 29, 2006.
Last updated 4:53 a.m., December 29, 2006.

What Did the AP Know, and When Did It Know It?

Imagine you were a member of a group being targeted by a serial rapist, but the media refused to provide you with this urgent information, which in the age of AIDS and resistant forms of venereal disease, could protect you from having your life destroyed or even ended, because it didn’t like the way the truth looked? Or imagine you wanted to learn about the prevalence of rape but you couldn’t, because the media refused to provide the public with the real story? Or you’re simply a citizen who wants to be informed, as an end-in-itself?

There is nothing theoretical about the above questions. In and around Baytown, TX, since April an armed serial rapist � “a clean-shaven black man, 18-21 years old… [5'10"-6' tall] and with a shaved head” and carrying a backpack — has been targeting small, frail, white men, 18-21 years of age, who live in their parents’ houses. The last reported rape was committed on November 30. And yet, the Associated Press doesn’t want potential victims, students of rape, or inquisitive citizens to know the truth.[MORE]

The Chronicle of Higher Education blogged recently that the report, “California Policy Options to Accelerate Latino Success in Higher Education,” was released by Excelencia in Education, a Washington-based group that seeks to accelerate Hispanic students’ achievement in higher education.

The document notes that educational attainment among Hispanic Californians is low. In 2005, the report says, only 9 percent of Hispanic residents age 25 and older held at least a bachelor’s degree…

The report recommends, among other things, that California provide all new parents in hospital maternity wards with informational packets on how to prepare and save for college, offer financial incentives to students to stay enrolled in higher education, expand state tax incentives for employers to support their employees’ education, and increase state support of colleges that enroll large percentages of students from underrepresented groups.[Report Urges California to Raise Hispanic College-Going Rate, and Suggests How to Do So]

About this, I have several thoughts: