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Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald
Divine ADD
Haitian-Americans in a Catholic parish in Queens, NY, have been ecstatically praying since an earthquake wiped out an estimated quarter-million of their island countrymen 10 months ago, following which Hurricane Tomas unleashed cholera in the survivors’ tent camps: Certain women … Continue reading
Body scan contortions
It is amusing to hear right-wing media hosts rail about TSA’s body scans as an extension of the Obama socialist agenda and as an environmental health hazard. It was of course the Bush Administration and its supporters in neo-con think … Continue reading
What every schools chief should know
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is under attack for nominating the chairwoman of Hearst Magazines to be the next New York City Schools Chancellor. The New York education establishment and its political patrons are outraged that someone with no … Continue reading
The Tea Party’s first test
I’ve been skeptical of the Tea Partyers’ commitment to entitlement reform and meaningful debt reduction. Sarah Palin, after all, pioneered death panel demagoguery in response to the mere possibility of rationalized Medicare spending. The notion that eliminating earmarks—a Tea Party … Continue reading
Dinesh D’Souza’s poison
Forbes magazine has now “fact-checked” Dinesh D’Souza’s infamous September 27 cover story, “How Obama Thinks,” and has uncovered one “slight” misrepresentation, it says, of an Obama speech on the BP oil spill. Such a “fact-checking” feint is irrelevant to this … Continue reading
Posted in culture, politics
Tagged conservative paranoia, dinesh d'souza, flight from reason
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Republican Kitsch
I heard some of the news conference introducing House Republican’s “A Pledge to America” today. While some of the individual proposals—such as ending government control of Fannie Mae and repealing the health care law (good luck)–actually have some concrete meaning, … Continue reading
Jerry Brown grabs at straws
Jerry Brown can on occasion be refreshingly iconoclastic, such as when he acknowledges the essential role that law and order plays in urban health, or when he welcomes, rather than demonizes, developers. But it sounds like he is feeling desperate … Continue reading
When liberals pray
Opponents of Arizona’s new immigration law have been praying for its reversal in court. The Wall Street Journal today has a photo of parishioners sitting outdoors on folding chairs at a prayer session for the demise of the law, which … Continue reading
Glenn Beck’s faith
I thought I had mistakenly tuned in to one of Southern California’s Christian radio stations last week when I heard a talk show host first issue the usual right-wing boilerplate about Obama allying with the U.S.’s enemies, and then follow-up … Continue reading
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Tagged daily massacre of the innocents, Glenn Beck, Paul the octopus
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