Bookworm Beat 5/16/2018 — the vanishing Obama legacy edition
Last week saw Trump almost completely erase the Obama legacy — an event that, peculiarly enough, coincided perfectly with delightful benefits for America.
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Tag: Abortion
Ignorance and lack of logic underlie Progs’ Second Amendment position
A Proggie-run first aid class reveals the shocking level of ignorance, innumeracy, and illogical thinking behind their anti-Second Amendment stance. I’ve always liked the Boy Scouts’ motto: “Be Prepared.” Because I’ve been fortunate enough that I seldom have to put my first aid techniques into use, I always forget them,
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Our children are attractive targets because they don’t ordinarily die
Today’s middle-class parents have a unique cohort of obsessively loved children. No wonder they’re attractive targets to young men intent on inflicting pain. In America, we are experiencing something unique: For the first time in history, the clear majority of children die after their parents, not before. Before the modern
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The Florida school shooting highlights different Left/Right philosophies *UPDATED*
Watching the differing responses from Left and Right to the Florida school shooting perfectly captures fundamental differences in Left and Right thinking. After the school shooting news broke yesterday, I quickly pounded out a few thoughts based in large part on data from and reactions to past shootings. Now that
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Bookworm Beat 1/28/18 — the brilliant Trump Jay-Z beatdown edition
From Trump’s epic response to Jay-Z, to Dennis Prager’s surprise admission, to Daniel Greenfield’s Leftist exposé, and more — there’s lots of brilliance here. Trump’s genius approach to Jay-Z’s “superbug” attack. I am getting wise to the ways of Trump. That’s why I know that the war into which he’s
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If an Obama scandal is revealed but the media ignores it….
If the House releases the Nunes memo proving an Obama scandal, but the media refuses to cover it, will Americans believe that no scandal ever happened? Unlike many of my readers, who seem to live in more conservative communities and have like-minded friends, I’ve spent my entire life in Democrat
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Early 20th C. eugenics still predominates in Progressive abortion circles
A conversation with a young college student revealed that the Progressive abortion obsession has changed little since the early 20th Century. I’ve been brooding for a few days now about a conversation I had last week with a student attending Oberlin. During the course of our talk, the student earnestly
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The Bookworm Beat 9/15/17 — the illustrated edition and open thread
This Bookworm Beat doesn’t have a huge collection of illustrations but what it has are damn fine. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll laugh some more. I’ve been paying bills and taxes, and plowing through Hillary’s What Happened? — and I’m really not sure which task is most distasteful. All I
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God forbid anyone might be mistaken for being pro-Life
Only in modern academia is it necessary for people to apologize for their decision not to terminate a pregnancy, lest they be mistaken for being pro-Life. Four times a year, Macalester College, one of the most liberal of America’s Midwestern liberal arts colleges, puts out a magazine for its alumni.
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Fisking a risible argument that Leftists, not conservatives, are reality-based
After explaining how the Left invented a detachment from reality, Kurt Andersen makes the laughable argument that the Left, not the Right, is reality-based. A Leftist friend of mine told me that novelist Kurt Andersen’s article in The Atlantic, entitled How America Lost Its Mind : The nation’s current post-truth
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It never was about gay marriage; it was always about destroying religion
Feeling the wind at their backs, gay marriage advocates are increasingly open about their true agenda: destroying Judeo-Christian faiths in America. Me, in 2008: The second problem right now with the emphasis on changing [the civil definition of marriage to include same sex marriage] is the risk that there will
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[VIDEO] Escaping the groupthink the Left demands, especially from blacks
Unquestioning groupthink is a Leftist hallmark, especially for blacks. Antonia Okafor details how she escaped from that intellectual prison.
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Why are Modern Feminists Such Wimps? — a guest post from Lulu
Modern feminists protest loudly and without risk about “rape culture” and abortion, while ignoring the horrors that Islamic countries inflict on women. The suffragettes who literally risked life and limb to get women the right to vote were heroes who began the process of achieving equal rights for women at
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Bookworm Beat 3/30/17 — tight-knit communities, nuclear families, and individual worth
Looking at this grab-bag post, I can see the common thread: valuing tight-knit communities, nuclear families, and each individual’s worth. I know why Utah’s welfare is working. Megan McArdle wrote a much-talked-about article in which she looked at Utah, which has extremely good and affordable social services. The key to
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George Faught: When celebrating life is hate speech
Oklahoma state representative George Faught believes each human life is precious, an idea that sees the Left castigating him as “dumb” and “vile.” The Lefties on my Facebook page have been reduced to stuttering incoherence by a statement from Oklahoma State Representative George Faught about pregnancies resulting from rape or
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