is in Washington lobbying for a race-based government back home, which comes up in the Senate this week.

John Fund writes on the shameful Akaka bill in the Journal today.

The cover of the new issue of NRODT, btw:

And from the NRO archives:

The Editors

Alston Ramsay on bad history.

Ramesh Ponnuru, from last summer

Rich Lowry says it’s Jefferson Davis’s kinda bill.

Justice Scalia has warned against this: “To pursue the concept of racial entitlement — even for the most admirable and benign of purposes — is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of the government, we are just one race here. We are American.”

A Heritage Foundation guide to more here