Archive for the 'African-Americans' Category
Bookworm on Jul 19 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Elections, Government, Hamas, Israel, Jihad, Military, Palestinians, Race, Second Amendment
Tweet Although it’s been open for more than a year now, I went for the first time today to the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. My visit there was an interesting contrast to my first visit, some years ago, to the newly rebuilt De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. [...]
Bookworm on Jul 02 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Identity politics, Judges, Judicial activism, Women
Tweet Kim Priestap, who blogs at Up North Mommy, got an impassioned email from the Democratic Party, raving about Elena Kagan. Does it rave about her brains? No (although it mentions as an aside that she’s “among the best legal minds this country has to offer,” which is a depressing comment about legal minds in [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Government, Immigration, Islam, Silly Stuff, Women
Tweet To: American Citizens From: Your Government Date: Today It has come to our attention that citizens on your side of the aisle (“WN’s”, aka Wing Nuts) are doing a lot of talking. What in the world are you gabbing about? Talk Radio, talking amongst yourselves, chatting on the Internet. What is with you [...]
Bookworm on May 30 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet We’ve talked before about the horrible racism of liberals. They typecast everyone, and then convince each person so typecast that he (or she) is a victim of an all powerful white male cabal. Here is a perfect example, courtesy of Bill Maher. I’d like you to imagine the uproar — up to an including [...]
Bookworm on May 18 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Capitalism, Palestinians, Second Amendment
Tweet “Logic! Why don’t they teach logic at these schools?” — C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Neither Data nor Mr. Spock, two relentlessly logical creations, could ever be liberals or Democrats or Progressives, or whatever the Hell else they’re calling themselves nowadays. (For convenience, I’ll just lump them all together under [...]
Bookworm on Apr 25 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race, Tea Parties
Tweet “I sent the club a wire stating, ‘PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.’” — Groucho Marx, quoting a telegram he sent to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959), p. 321. The Democratic [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Liberal blogs, Race
Tweet A few days ago, in the wake of a concerted (and almost certainly fraudulent) attack against the Tea Party by claiming its members are racist, I wrote a post in which I said that, if I’m going to be called a racist, I get to define the term to accord with my understanding of [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Democrats, Media matters
Tweet One of the things I love about Andrew Breitbart is that he’s willing to challenge the bluffs and cons emanating from the Left. While the Republican establishment was apologizing for the alleged claim that Tea Partiers hurled the “n-word,” Breitbart figured out that the absence of footage was significant — especially since the Black [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet Horrified by the fact that the American people are not dancing in the streets now that Obama Care is the law of the land, the Left is doing what it does best: tarring and feathering anyone who stands in its way. The current libel is that people who oppose Obama Care are racist. These [...]
Bookworm on Mar 31 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Tweet Okay, folks, I’m going to admit to racism here, by which I mean that I’m advancing a position based on racial considerations. I just learned through The Corner that there is an online conservative journal on the scene called Freedom’s Journal Magazine. Aside from the fact that it has one of the coolest online [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2010 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I can think of a billion reasons to dislike Harry Reid. The fact that he called Obama a “negro” is not one of them. It simply shows his age. (Although I do agree with Lloyd Marcus that it’s fine to be offended by Reid’s assumptions about white Americans.) The problem, of course, is what [...]
Bookworm on Dec 26 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I just returned from seeing Disney’s latest release, The Princess and the Frog. Looked at purely from an entertainment standpoint, the movie is a delight. The hand drawn animation is imaginative and, at times, exquisitely beautiful. When the Bayou lights up at sunset with fireflies, every little girl in the audience emits a rapturous [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
Tweet When I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their ills. It was only [...]
Bookworm on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education
Tweet Jennifer Rubin has a very good post today about the reasons that the “smart” Obama may be struggling so mightily to be a good president. She offers three basic reasons that may explain Obama’s ineptitude, whether it touches economics, diplomacy, or national security: First, the punditocracy confused credentials with knowledge or smarts. [snip] Second, [...]
Bookworm on Oct 31 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet Jack Cashill tells a story I never knew (no doubt because I grew up on the MSM). Roots was a fraud, from beginning to end — but what an important fraud, because it managed to remove Muslims from the slave trade.
Bookworm on Oct 14 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Education, Race
Tweet You must read today’s article from Robin of Berkeley. End of story.
Bookworm on Sep 19 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans
Tweet I’ve had three emails about this audio of Mark Levin’s interview with Stephen A. Smith. Having listened to it, I understand why:
Bookworm on Aug 31 2009 | Filed under: Afghanistan, African-Americans
Tweet During the November 2008 election, Black Panthers appeared on video standing in front of polling places with billy clubs: Eric Holder, however, was unconcerned, and dropped the voter intimidation case against the Black Panthers. Having learned that they get a free pass for egregious behavior antithetical to democratic government gets a free pass, I [...]
Bookworm on Aug 28 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet It’s such a little thing, but it’s such a big reminder that Obama, hectorer in chief, really does feel that he is above all the things that he tells the little people to do: President Obama took a bike ride with his family today in Aquinnah, on Martha’s Vineyard. The First Family cruised along [...]
Bookworm on Aug 21 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet I guess for the next three and a half years, I’ll keep having to trot out this joke when I link to articles containing ridiculous claims of racism made to cover for incompetence and other personal failings. First, the joke (which you’ve heard before and I can guarantee you’ll hear again): Two men met [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet Being a police or other type of security officer is, by definition, a risky job. It’s entirely possible to find oneself in a low risk situation, such as the town in which I live. Crimes here tend to revolve around shoplifting, speeding, vandalism, etc. I know of several young officers (and fire fighters) who [...]
Bookworm on Jul 23 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet By now, you’ve all heard about the Henry Louis Gates incident: a neighbor reported a possible break-in; cops came; they discovered that it was Gates trying to get in after being locked out; and, when things got heated, the cops arrested Gates. Gates has cried racism; the cops claim a righteous arrest. Since it [...]
Bookworm on Feb 10 2009 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
Tweet I have been trying my darndest to ignore Judith Warner’s sleazy New York Times piece detailing the sexual fantasies liberal women are having about Obama. On the list of things I really don’t want to know, this ranks right up there with the nature of Bill Clinton’s underwear. These are presidents, for goodness sakes [...]
Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama, Economics, Europe
Tweet I’m still developing the same theme I’ve been hammering at for a week, because I think it’s important. The ideas in this post should be familiar to you, but I’m trying to express them with more factual data and lucidity: My mother, bless her heart, said something very important the other day. She said [...]
Bookworm on Sep 22 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Media matters
Tweet The current “scandal” is that a poll shows that one third of white Democrats harbor racist views towards blacks. I have two problems with this poll’s approach and two questions about whether its conclusions have any real meaning. My first problem is the poll’s underlying assumption, one that reveals entirely the pollsters’ bias: Why [...]
