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May 2008

Reactions to Father Pfleger

There have been a lot of reactions to the video of Michael Plfeger mocking Hillary Clinton as a racist. Some...

Down the Memory Hole

Sometimes, I remember things I'm probably supposed to have forgotten. For example, what happened to the charges against Tom Delay...

Journalist as Activist: George Monbiot

In which I can't help noticing the lexigraphical similarity between "Monbiot" and "Moonbat"... If you're like most Americans, you've probably...

Subway Excludes Homeschoolers

Update: See the comments for important contrary information. Given the choice between making money selling sandwiches, and airing left-wing prejudices,...

Obama's Uncle, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald

I've been following the flap about Obama's claim that his uncle spent six months in an attic after liberating Auschwitz....

Jimmy Carter's Memorial Day Tribute... To Iran

On this Memorial Day, James Earl Carter repeats the same advice which worked out so well for North Korea: [W]hat...

Women Self-Select out of IT Careers

What was absolutely obvious to our grandparents is shocking news to the "enlightened" urbanites over at the Boston Globe: In...

I Know You Are, But What Am I?

One of the stranger characteristics I've observed in the left is the need to project or find all of one's...

Barack Obama

I'm not much on disliking people: I think it's important to be fair in criticizing, and use the same rules...

Expelled: Dawkins Doth Protest Too Much

I do believe that some of the criticism leveled against Expelled is legitimate -- or might be, if we overlooked...

McCain, the Conservative

Interesting attempt by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic to position McCain as a die-hard conservative. What of his apparent hatred...

Not Many Poor Kids in College

Via Outside the Beltway: In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s...

Obama: "I Attended a Racist Church for Twenty Years, Chose the Pastor as My Mentor and Father Figure, Was Utterly Unaware of His Extreme Views Until Just This Week, and Hope to Be in Charge of US Foreign Policy"

Really, there's nothing more to say than that....

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