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Full-court press

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

The New York Times asks whether Obama’s White House is too male-dominated.  It took the Times weeks to acknowledge the Acorn and Vann Jones stories, but a little delusional grousing about all-male (as opposed to?) basketball games immediately catapults the … Continue reading →

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Economic hot potato

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

Barack Obama should stop blaming his Republican predecessor for the problems facing his presidency, writes Peggy Noonan: The president said last week, at a San Francisco fund-raiser, that he’s busy with a “mop,” “cleaning up somebody else’s mess,” and he … Continue reading →

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The limits of Afrocentrism

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

The university’s decadent rituals of racial sin and expiation continue apace;  affirmative action hires and the ever-burgeoning student life bureaucracy make such self-engrossed wallowing intractable.  An “associate professor of philosophy” at Duquesne University, author of Black Bodies, Whites Gazes: The … Continue reading →

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Hitchens At Work

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Bradlaugh

Hitch at the top of his form.   (Click on  Play Clip.)

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In hand-sanitizers we trust

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Heather Mac Donald

A letter in the Wall Street Journal today makes a good point: In response to Lauren Winner’s Houses of Worship article “Swine Flu Spells the End of the Common Cup” (Oct. 9): If we as Christian believers hold to the … Continue reading →

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Self Censorship

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Bradlaugh

The stone refusal of U.S. news reporters to mention race even when it is obviously the big factor driving a story, baffles and amazes me. This morning’s New York Post carries a full-page story (p.15) by one of the paper’s … Continue reading →

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The Romney Paradox

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison responds to my earlier post on the ‘Party of Huckabee’ here. As always with Larison, the whole thing is well worth a read, but even if I may not agree with everything he has to … Continue reading →

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Literary Criticism

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

The King James Bible is (with more than a little help from William Tyndale), one of the great achievements of English literature, but enthusiastic as I am about its merits, I don’t think I’d go this far: Marc Grizzard, the … Continue reading →

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‘Sharia’ Watch

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

I’m almost always opposed to the death penalty (mainly because I tend to be skeptical of government’s ability to do anything right), so I’m probably biased, but, if this report from the London Times is accurate, it is, to say … Continue reading →

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The Party of Huckabee?

Posted on October 16, 2009 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Rasmussen: Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Republican voters nationwide say former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is their pick to represent the GOP in the 2012 Presidential campaign. Full details can be found here. Palin’s pain has been Huckabee’s gain, it … Continue reading →

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