George Zimmermann may or may not be guilty of murder. I suspect not, as the evidence indicates that Trayvon attacked him and was beating him senseless when Zimmerman fired. But that’s what you have trials for. Man Beaten By Mob, In Critical Condition What Parker says happened next could make the fallout from the brutal… Read More Justice for Trayvon
I am shocked. Shocked, I say. “They would not be able to discriminate against gay and lesbian or transgender individuals,” Dye said. “That type of protection parallels to what you find in race discrimination. If a church provides lodging or rents a facility they could not discriminate based on race. It’s along that kind of… Read More Forcing Churches to Have Gay Weddings
…and came from a long line of polygamists. Obama Sr. was already married when he left Kenya to study at the University of Hawaii, where he married again. His American wife-to-be, Stanley Ann Dunham, was not yet 18 and unaware of his marital situation when she became pregnant with his namesake son in 1961. Why,… Read More Barak Obama Sr. Was a Polygamist…
At Patterico, the usual desperate flailing to find cover for President Pup-Eater McFailpants is diagnosed: The slogan is a multiple entendre, but one of those entendres, intentionally or not, is evocative of a nasty racial stereotype about black men. See? It evokes. And your intentions don’t matter, because meaning is determined by the interpreter. See… Read More Obama isn’t Working, Because Mitt Romney is a Raaaaacist, or Something…
All of this will be old news to anyone who’s read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, but he once more takes up the cudgel to defend Gilded Age businessmen from the charge of “Social Darwinism.” (h/t Instapundit) In the first place, Herbert Spencer wasn’t much of a Social Darwinist: The truth of the matter, as aggrieved libertarians have… Read More Social Darwinism: The Movement That Wasn’t There
I won’t feign joy that we have the presumed-nominee that we have, but I won’t feign despair, either. Romney is no one’s ideal candidate, but neither is he the doomed mumbling sclerotic hayride of fail that John McCain was. And I think he has a good few advantages going into this election:
Maryland has been run by an oligarchy of high-minded swine since at least 1655, when a band of scurrilous Puritan rebels defeated the forces of Lord Baltimore at the Battle of the Severn. Today, Maryland is more or less a wholly owned subsidiary of the federal government. I mean that in the literal sense; the… Read More Forget it, Rick. It’s Maryland.
…on the subject of chastity and sexual morality. By which His Eminence means, it has cowered in a little ball and said “Don’t Hurt Me.” Humanae vitae “brought such a tsunami of dissent, departure, disapproval of the church, that I think most of us—and I’m using the first-person plural intentionally, including myself—kind of subconsciously said,… Read More Cardinal Dolan: The Church Has Failed to Lead
Vessel declared “seaworthy.” WASHINGTON – The head of the General Services Administration resigned from her post Monday, and two other officials were fired amid an investigation into excessive spending at a 2010 training conference that featured a clown, a comedian and mindreader, Federal News Radio reports. The public was gouged to the tune of $800,000.… Read More Rats Forced Off Titanic
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