Erasing the past by draining the libraries
I have no words. No words at all. Hat tip: The Anchoress
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What your representatives think of you *UPDATED*
We do not live in a genuine democracy, which would see people vote on every single issue. Instead, we have a representative democracy — we get to vote on which individuals we’d like to see represent us in government. People who want to hold those jobs (that is, the candidates)
Continue readingWhat in the world does this have to do with teachers?
One of my main bases for hostility to teacher’s unions is that increasingly have nothing to do with their original goal, which was ensuring a living wage and decent working conditions for teachers. (Not that they were always that effective at serving their original union mandate. My father was a
Continue readingIdentity politics devolves into a joke
Here’s a bad, almost cruel, joke, but nevertheless a pointed and important one: Two men met on the street. One looked very angry. “What’s the problem?” asked the first man of his friend. “I’m r-r-really a-a-ngry,” he stuttered. “I app-ap-applied for a j-j-job as an an-an-announcer at the-the-the r-r-r-radio s-s-station
Continue readingMore on why Islam is a religion different from all other religions
A few days ago, I wrote a post examining why I believe Islam is not a religion like other religions, so that pluralist societies should view it with a distrust they do not extend to other religions. Daniel Pipes also tackles that issue. I’ll give you the first and last
Continue readingTaxing realities
From the Wall Street Journal: Democrats already plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, but that won’t raise enough money. So they’re proposing an income tax surcharge on “the wealthy,” but that won’t raise enough either. Democrats have no choice but to soak the middle class because only they have
Continue readingGiving the Medal of Freedom to a dictator-coddling antisemite *UPDATED*
You’ve already read that the Big O (an increasingly empty hole if there ever was one) is now set to give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson, the Irish woman who has cheerfully led the UN into ever deeper antisemitic, anti-American depravity. Jennifer Rubin sums up beautifully the
Continue readingObama as the butt of the Joke(r) *UPDATED*
At first, only people in L.A. saw it. Now we’ve all seen it: Predictably, liberals are already crying “racism.” As for me, maybe I’m just out of touch with pop culture, but the Joker character never ranked up there in my mind with Uncle Tom or Sambo or any other
Continue readingPublic service announcement
On the same day I heard a friend tell about her father’s stroke, which was initially misdiagnosed and therefore not treated, I got the following in an email. It’s a no brainer to pass it on to you: STROKE IDENTIFICATION It only takes a minute to read this… A neurologist
Continue readingObjection, your honor! Non-responsive
If you are a young lawyer, struggling to learn what a non-responsive answer really looks like, you can’t do better than this question-and-answer session between Jake Tapper and Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs. If Gibbs were any slicker, he’d just ooze right out of the room: TAPPER: Robert, in terms
Continue readingSeeing inside someone’s soul — and finding a blogburst *UPDATED*
On July 31, right after Beergate, the White House posted official photos of the event. Thomas Lifson, of American Thinker, saw one and was immediately struck by it. Here’s the photo: You see what I see: the cop who was flung into unwanted prominence because an esteemed professor and the
Continue readingMichelle Malkin on The View
Michelle Malkin went into the lions’ den — and took a bite out of the lions. If you’d like to see it happen, go here.
Continue readingI’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV
I found this very effective, especially because it’s the same slogan that popped into my mind when I heard Obama waffling about different colored pills and tonsils: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcIKZoNGd8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Hat tip: Weekly Standard Blog
Continue readingRoe v Wade a warning about Supreme Court involvement in gay marriage
Whether you are for or against gay marriage, Robert George issues a sound warning about the dangers that flow from letting the Supreme Court get its hands on the issue: It would be disastrous for the justices to do so [rule against California’s Prop. 8 and, by extension, make gay
Continue readingObama lies (again), this time about healthcare, but the truth is emerging
No words necessary from me. It’s all here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
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