One has to admit, Roger Ebert, Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funnicello make rather an odd threesome (but then, so did John Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley). I don’t have much to say about any of them. Ebert was the guy who told us whether movies were worth the money and hassle to see in… Read More Rest in Peace, Oh Lady of Iron.
A few days ago I tossed off a rather unremarkable post called “Self-Hating Honkies and the War on Easter“. Not much to it, really. In the post, I linked Stacy McCain, who gave me a shout-out on Twitter, as befits a gentleman and scholar. Well, if ‘Islamophobia’ is racist, why isn’t anti-Easter-Bunnyism racist, too? andrewjpatrick.com/2013/03/27/sel…… Read More My Interactions with @REALBROTHER0003 and the Banality of Twitter
Apparently referring to Easter by name is an offense to those who are not Christian. I should like to find a logic to this that is not racist at root. But I can’t: If even the mention of Easter is offensive, then non-christians must be kept in a protective bubble from any knowledge that anything… Read More Self-Hating Honkies and the War on Easter
A few things to read that other people wrote: Stephen Green points out how Krugman tries to make capitalism pay for the sins of statists. How Richard Nixon forced the North Vietnamese to sign a peace, and why Bob Beckel is mad. RS McCain ponders the ineffable WTF-ness of South Carolina politics. Jeff Goldstein respectfully… Read More Rocking the Links
This Awesome (picture for link): Go on, tell me again how sensible and obvious these rules and regulations are. Tell me how Leviathan has a special plan for my life! Oh, and don’t forget to let me know how different today is from the frontier days of the 19th century. You will be dead right… Read More How Awesome is Gun Control?
It’s an interesting question, but the short answer is: No. Because Detroit doesn’t want to be rescued. Which is to say, Detroit’s political class doesn’t want anything to change. The people might hope for an economic dictator to cull the mess in city hall, but everyone else has a vested or an ideological interest in… Read More Should Mitt Romney Rescue Detroit?
From Ace: How odd. Deuced odd, if I may say so myself. How may such mysteries be explained. It’s above Brazile’s pay grade, that’s for sure…
The Wall Street Journal finds the essence of progressive thought very conveniently spelled out. The anonymous reporter, however, goes far beyond bias, and even beyond bad faith–that is, beyond abusing his credibility as an “objective” reporter to further his cause. To judge by his emails to the reader, he has achieved a perfect Orwellian inversion.… Read More “My Bias is Objective, Because I’m Right”
Big Government has a series on the history of Third Parties and the possibilities of a Third Party run in 2016. They’re all worth the read, but there’s no page for all of them: I had to do an internal search to find them from the beginning (though of course all of them are linked… Read More Third Parties – A Breitbart Retrospective
He can’t be racist! He gives Money to black people! “I find it ironic that my foundation’s last grant was $50,000 to the Arthur Ashe Learning Center,” Baldwin tweeted. Which is to say, his foundation gave money to a charity named after a black person! So there! TMZ says they can’t hear the racial slur… Read More Alec Baldwin Denies Everything, NYPD Investigates
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