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Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald
Connecticut Governor: Go pray!
Connecticut Governor Dannel Molloy this morning advised his state’s residents to prepare for Hurricane Sandy and then go “pray.” What exactly would those prayers look like? “Dear God: Even though you’ve sent this hurricane (because nothing happens on earth that … Continue reading
Richard Mourdock, the consistent Christian
“I just struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize: Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God … Continue reading
Keeping terror apocalypticism alive
Ueberhawk U.S. Representative Peter King, speaking about the Benghazi attack on WABC radio today, announced that the threat from Al Qaeda was “if anything, greater than before,” now that its central leadership has been dismantled. Why did I see that … Continue reading
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Akin: a man of peculiar principles
It is of course sheer political opportunism to seize on Todd Akin’s use of “legitimate” to qualify “rape” as representing his views. There is not a chance that he meant to signify that rape is ever legitimate, but was rather … Continue reading
Romney, welfare, and race
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank thinks that criticizing rollbacks in welfare reform shows a suspicious preoccupation with race—to put the most generous interpretation on his words–or, more bluntly, makes one a racist: Events of the past few days make that … Continue reading
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The significance of Aurora shootings? Maybe not much.
Another non-Muslim demonstrates how easy it is to inflict mayhem on American civilians. If we were teeming with home-grown (or immigrant) radicalised Islamists, as U.S. Representative Peter King and his orbiting neocon activists maintain, we should be seeing such attacks on … Continue reading
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Francois Hollande’s marketting coup
The presidential victory of socialist Francois Hollande in France is being presented everywhere as a vote for “growth” over stagnation: [Irish Foreign Minister] Eamon Gilmore last night said the election of Francois Hollande will “accelerate” a growth agenda in Europe. … Continue reading
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Race riots, past and future
The similarities between the build-up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the media demagoguery around the Trayvon Martin case are eerie and disturbing, as I write about here: Could it happen again? That is the taboo question on … Continue reading
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California’s insufficient bite of the Apple
The New York Times is shocked that Apple seeks to minimize its liability under California’s exorbitant tax rates by moving profits to lower taxing states and countries. The paper melodramatically suggests in a front page “expose” today that the economic … Continue reading
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The limits of rational thought
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has eloquently opposed two local living wage bills championed by New York’s left-wing City Council: “Government cannot bend the laws of the labor market,” he said, arguing that the bills would destroy jobs, and … Continue reading
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