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Magical Thinking Watch: Endless Female Victimhood

You might have thought that as research accumulates on the biological aspect of human conduct, radical feminists would have lightened up a bit on their charge of widespread institutionalized sexism, especially since they have dominated the institutions that they finger … Continue reading

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Eric Holder does not play the race card

Federal district court judges are ignoring Congressional sentencing rules regarding crack defendants, but the Justice Department, to its credit, is opposing this judicial rewriting of the law, reports the New York Times’s Adam Liptak.  In 2010, Congress narrowed the disparities … Continue reading

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Shepard Fairey: I see, I want, I take

Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art just opened what it bills as the nation’s first museum show dedicated to graffiti, Art in the Streets.  In an article and a review, I explore the shameless hypocrisy on the part of MOCA’s director … Continue reading

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Fiscal priorities, never mind

Congressional Republicans may have been willing to sell social conservatives down the river, but not so the Republican party of Tennessee. Creationism Gains Ground in Tennessee: Tennessee House Bill 368, the creationist friendly legislation that we have previously covered on … Continue reading

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What Happened to Those Fiscal Priorities? (2)

Via the New York Times (emphasis added): The state budget plan that moved toward enactment on Wednesday calls for 10 percent cuts in aid to public colleges and universities, but it would add about $18 million a year in tuition … Continue reading

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Honors for Sale

A traditionally British form of fundraising appears to have been given a fresh twist. The Mail on Sunday reports: One of Britain’s most high-profile Catholic priests has admitted arranging papal knighthoods for wealthy businessmen for money. Father Michael Seed, who … Continue reading

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The Archbishop and the Governor

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is greatly relieved that the pesky matter of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s unCatholic (at least for now) lifestyle is finally behind us.  The divorced Catholic governor has been very publicly living with his girlfriend … Continue reading

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Magical Thinking Watch: Free Government Jobs

The New York Times rues Ohio’s pending legislative effort to cut back on public-sector union clout when government jobs are the only decent ones left in an area of southern Ohio: Decades of industrial decline have eroded private-sector jobs here, … Continue reading

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Twenty Weeks

A hideous story from Nebraska (via NTV): It’s the story you may have seen, but the side you’ve never heard. A grieving Grand Island couple spoke out to NTV News, after newspapers across the country report they wanted an abortion … Continue reading

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Where’s the radical, America-hating Obama when you need him?

The right-wing’s portrayal of Obama as a terrorist-sympathising, anti-Western alien intent on destroying the country was patently absurd from the start—which isn’t to say that that portrayal can’t grow absurder still.  Obama’s justified caution in using force unilaterally against Gaddafi … Continue reading

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