Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Ben Shapiro has published a post that perfectly articulates everything I want to say about the Mozilla thought-crime purge. I therefore hope that Ben will forgive me for quoting him at some length. After detailing the way in which Brendan Eich’s outing and subsequent destruction began with OKCupid, and then
Continue readingWikipedia has a working definition of the 1950s blacklist that Leftists to this day use as a banner around which to rally: The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the mid-20th-century practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals because
Continue readingFor an almost 80 year run that ended only in 1972, Playland at the Beach was San Francisco’s Coney Island. Beginning in 1928, and subject to a few minor changes over the decades, Playland settled into the form known to City residents through its final days: it had roller coasters,
Continue readingI find irritating gay marriage supporters’ reliance on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to justify their contention that religious individuals cannot opt out of actively participating in gay marriage ceremonies. They contend that the Act mandates that (1) a Christian baker, who welcomes gays seeking all other baked goods,
Continue readingI’ve mentioned gay marriage once already today as the latest non-issue to roil the left even as the world around us crumbles (a la the 1930s), the American military is reduced (a la the 1930s), and tyrannies are rattling their sabres (a la the 1930s). Overnight, the same liberal who
Continue readingMatt Lewis nails the core issue when it comes to the LGBT crowd’s demands that shopkeepers engage in acts contrary to their religious conscience: But let’s be honest about something else. This is really a surrogate battle. A much bigger one is coming. [snip] The reason conservative Christians are fighting
Continue readingNPR reports that mixed marriages don’t work. It’s not talking about mixed race or mixed religion, it’s about mixed politics. Democrats and Republicans make for bad bedfellows. What NPR doesn’t discuss is marriages in which one partner has a mid-marriage political conversion. Believe me when I saw that doing so
Continue readingThe Left has been kerfuffling lately when it comes to the age by which women should marry. (If “to kerfuffle” isn’t a verb, it should be.) The kerfuffle (now I’m using it as a noun) started when Susan Patton, who was one of the first women admitted to Princeton, wrote
Continue readingJames Taranto highlights a couple of women, Lisa Arnold and Christina Campbell, who complain that it’s unfair that married women, when widowed, get to receive social security benefits that tie into their husband’s social security “earnings.” Here, per Taranto, is the heart of Arnold’s and Campbell’s argument: “More than 1,000
Continue readingHere’s today’s Facebook find: This poster, of course, comes from a liberal. What the liberal doesn’t realize is that Mitt was riffing right off the liberals’ own beloved New York Times when he said that the best way to deal with gun violence is to promote marriage. Just this July,
Continue readingToday’s young people don’t date. They hang out. A relationship is lasting if the couple is still together after a week or two. Hook-ups (i.e., casual sex) are normative. Is this a good thing or a bad thing for long-term relationships? Do people know each other better than they did
Continue readingI happen to think Dennis Prager is right — and I say this as someone who does not have a personal stake in the adultery issue. I’ve known people who committed adultery because they were obnoxious jerks, and people who committed adultery because it was the only way to survive
Continue readingAs part of a larger rumination about religion, Barney Quick looked at the Christian notion of a woman’s submission within her marriage, since the media is going after Michele Bachmann on that point: The recent dust-up over Michelle Bachmann’s statements on record that she feels Biblically commanded to be submissive
Continue readingA long, long time ago, NPR did a series of stories aimed at “documenting” the state of marriage in America. One of those stories stood out strongly in my mind, because the woman the reporter interviewed articulated a view of marriage that I’d never considered before. She said that, in
Continue readingSteve Crowder who is not, so far as I know, married, used the GLSEN scandal as the starting point for some really sweet thoughts about marriage: When I really think about it, it seems as though the only kind of sex at which Hollywood will ever choose to poke fun…
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