In ” No Way to Treat a President ” Eugene Robinson has taken to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to denounce the incivility of President Obama’s congressional opposition, especially Representative Joseph Wilson’s now infamous “you lie,” outburst the other . . . . Continue Reading »
My children, Andrew and Grace, are now ages 7 and 4. According to my wife, they have been prime candidates for a trip to Disney World for some time now. I have held back because I tend not to be enthusiastic about vacations for reasons other than visiting family (because that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Horrible news : Local officials and state police are confirming that a pro-life advocate was shot and killed outside a high school in this Michigan town. The person, who is described as well-known but whose identity has not been released, was shot multiple times while protesting abortion outside . . . . Continue Reading »
Talk about lying about the bill: President Obama and the Democrats have repeatedly assured the country that Obamacare would not cover abortion and that, in any event, the Hyde Amendment would prevent federal funding. Almost surely wrong on the first point and absolutely wrong . . . . Continue Reading »
A pro life activist who routinely held up photos of aborted fetuses as a form of protest has been repeatedly shot and murdered. From the story:OWOSSO, Michigan — State police at the Corunna post have confirmed a well-known anti-abortion activist was shot multiple times and killed this morning . . . . Continue Reading »
So it appears that the Mustache of Understanding has gotten in a bit of hot water over his latest op-ed . Having grown up in Hong Kong (pre and post-handover) and knowing plenty of people who fled Friedman’s “reasonably enlightened group of people” quite recently, I’m not . . . . Continue Reading »
Welcome back to where the stuff never stops. Let’s see what we have for you nice folks tonight. Now, I’ve heard of scalping tickets . . . These faceless angels creep me out: the identity-less-ness of them is as jarring and wrongheaded as, say, an angel image with your own face, which . . . . Continue Reading »
Browsing Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan’s new book Contemporary American Judaism, I note a great deal of ritual acknowledgement of “Jewish diversity” and not a word about Jewish fertility. That is a deadly flaw, for the sort of Judaism the author espouses will disappear if only because it . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Breitbart launched his new site today, BigGovernment , with an undercover invesigation of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Officials with the controversial community organizing group were videotaped telling two journalists—who were passing themselves off as . . . . Continue Reading »
What does health care have to do with foreign policy? Not much, one might think. But there was a paragraph in President Obama’s speech last night that drew a connection between the two in a way that was at best troubling and at worst demagogic. It appeared in the context of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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