ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON MAY NOT RUN AGAIN AS DELEGATE IN CONGRESS FROM DC.

 Newser had an article asserting the Eleanore Holmes Norton, elected Delegate from Washington, DC to Congress, may not seek re-election this year.  She has held the post for 18 terms, and there is discussion of dementia.  The Newser story and comments center on the question of should there be term limits, and mental and physical exam requirements.  My view - it is the duty of the citizen voter to make the decision of whether a candidate is physically or mentally incapacitated.  I admit, I think voters can make mistakes - not voting for the lively Trump and apparently choosing Giden instead.  Below is my comment:

There should NOT be upper age limits on electing Congress folks. It is the duty of the voter to distinguish between a lively Trump and a Biden.
Norton did much to reduce the effectiveness of our government long before she was elected to represent DC. I think she was on the EEOC when she began her assault on exams related to work. Both govt., the armed services, and businesses used aptitude exams to find which applicants might best fit in what openings. Norton opposed these because she did not like the results regarding race (and perhaps gender). She totally opposed IQ tests that were very helpful in spotlighting those who did very well despite education in rather poor schools. Again, Norton disliked the results. In effect, she asserted any exam where whites did better than blacks was racist. The result was that to be consitered non racist, a test had to be easy enough so that almost all passed.  Standards had to be lowered to achieve that result.  The result for American society, many competent applicants were not hired, so the EEOC coud demand they hire by race and gender, afterall, they all did well on the exams.  Better to hire dummies than have the civil rights division accuse your firm of racism. Norton paved the road to the disastrous DEI.

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Age is a problem, but one should be reasonable. I am 87 and wrote this without looking up any thing, tho Norton might have been on the Civil Rights Commission when she did her damage. Running heavy machinery, I would not try, many things, but most of my brain is working. Some folks over 100 are physically active. Let voters choose whom they want as the best candidate, whatever the age, race, gender, disabilities, etc

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DAVID BROOKS IN ATLANTIC MONTHLY QUESTIONS MERITOCRACY IN UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS, etc.

 I have only read a short summary of the Brooks article in Newser, but was shocked.  Here is my response as I posted it on Newser.  In some ways my response is a short summary of my forthcoming book.  Hugh Murray

What a crock! Merit was abandoned around 1965 when leaders of the EEOC pushed the unproven theory that all large groups are equally adept in all fields. From this absurd assumption, if all groups were not equally represented in all fields, that proved racial discrimination. This theory was the underlying justification for the trendy phrase, system racism. A few years later, Eleanore Holmes Norton decided anything that interfered with minority hiring should be abolished. So, no more info permitted don previous arrests, etc. when applying for jobs or univ. or whatever. And exams where minorities did poorly were condemned as discriminatory, and she fought to ban them, EVEN WHEN THEY WERE THE BEST PREDICTORS OF HOW APPLICANTS MIGHT DO IN UNIV OR CERTAIN JOBS. By Reagan's time, tests were still given, but graded on racial curbs, to boost scores of minorities and demote those of white men. For decades anti-white male propaganda has spewed from the media, ever more govt. agencies, and universities. DEI is the most recent branding of this anti-white racism. DEI is how a Black woman became Pres. of Harvard who had written not a great deal, and some of which was plagiarized. To the liberals, merit is the enemy. This is why we spenc so much on each pupil in public schools, and they often graduate and have trouble reading, doing math, and some now cannot write their own names.

The author of the donnyBrooks in the Atlantic will see his case sink, even by the torpedoes of many who have already responded to it on the Newser site.