If you’re not reading Stuart Schneiderman’s excellent blog, Had Enough Therapy?, you should be. Today he doesn’t even have to attack “childism” — the preposterous notion that children are unfairly oppressed — because the New York Times does it for him. Until taught to do so, kids can’t dress themselves, control their emotions, or distinguish… Read More What if They Found a New Oppressed Group and Everyone Laughed?
Apparently “Santorum” is Catholic for “Huckabee.” Personally, I don’t expect much to change in South Carolina. Last time ’round, South Carolina was supposed to be the last bastion against John McCain. South Carolina makes a good last bastion. More to the point, Gingrich has once more demonstrated his tactical incompetence. Who the hell told him… Read More The Bearable Tedium of Mitt Romney
Like communism, it worked better in theory than in practice, and like communism, only the sad Old Guard wants it anymore. Bloomberg (h/t Instapundit): Closing gaps in the background-check system would likely have only a modest effect on crime rates. But for gun control advocates struggling to stay relevant, the push for such changes represents… Read More Gun Control is Dead
52. REM — Automatic for the People In January 1999, I was on assignment for my first job at Nabisco Headquarters in New Jersey. I was driving a 1986 Lincoln Mk VII that I’d purchased for a song the previous August. I used to drive up from my Philadelphia apartment early Monday Morning and drive… Read More Rating My CD’s: Automatic for the People
Camp of the Saints has the goods. We should keep in mind that Christianity has always been a challenge to those views and values that human society normalizes. Abortion and contraception existed in the 1st century AD as well, albeit less effectively. As human societies exist to simplify human relationships, sometimes murder becomes a convenience.… Read More Mark Steyn: Rick Santorum is Creepy; Dr. Gosnell is Not Creepy
The N00b I alluded to earlier has gotten really classy. Really classy.
Newt Gingrich stands out amid the current GOP field in one particular way: he has a talent for arguing the premises of the question, and rejecting those too long accepted. His rise from the pit to brief front-runnership was aided by little else. Which is why I found this exchange so irritating: Gingrich needs to… Read More How Newt Shot Himself In the Foot on the Chickenhawk Question…
Even if the band name is too precious by half, this sounds really good.
Our intrepid reporter takes another journey through the concentric circles of feminism. The old boy must be feeling his oats. No feminist can ever concede that any critic could have a valid argument. Thus the starting point of the debate is that there can be no debate: The anti-feminist critic is simply presumed wrong, and… Read More Stacy McCain on Freedom and Equality
In 1999, the Vatican issued guidelines for exorcisms. Among them was the requirement that a person claiming demonic possession should first be screened by doctors to rule out illness. In 2012, that fact is used as the premise for a bad movie to trash the Church as “hypocritical,” “bureaucratic,” and uncaring. Because a religious organization… Read More The Big, Bad Catholic Church Strikes Again.
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