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Archives for March 2008
Why Charlotte Allen is one of my favourite writers
"I'm not the only woman who's dumbfounded (as it were) by our sex, or rather, as we prefer to put it, by other members of our sex besides us.
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"I … [Read more...]
Levant: “Richard Warman’s threats against Toronto’s public libraries”
"According to this document from the Toronto Public Library, a book Warman complained about has been taken off of … [Read more...]
Spindly young progressive white hipsters are dirtbags
"Once, a scruffy, large man approached me, holding a folded-up piece of paper. 'Do you have any Buck?' He paused and looked at the piece of paper. 'Any books by Buckorsick?' I suspected that he meant Bukowski, but I … [Read more...]
A reader recalls “non-PC humor of yore”
"One night Flip Wilson, on the Tonight Show, told Johnny Carson a story of something that had happened to him while hitchhiking through the Texas outback. Miles from nowhere, he was given a lift by a guy in a pickup truck who said he was a ranch foreman. "He said he was carrying the … [Read more...]
Blogging while female: 5 conservative women bloggers speak
"Do you think that if you were a man you'd have less critical comments or that they would be less vulgar and sexualized? In other words, the criticism level is the same, but it's nastier … [Read more...]
Another hoax memoir exposed
"How is it that a publishing house spends three years working with an author on a story that defies credulity, and doesn't once check up on her veracity? How is it that a journalist for … [Read more...]
Peter Hitchens: “sympathy for Mr. Hitler?”
"'You are a Spanish sailor about to embark in the Spanish Armada,' said the worksheet. 'Draw an anti-English poster to show all the reasons why you are invading the country.'
"It also … [Read more...]
Clerical collateral damage: priestly sexual abuse five years later
"The Rev. Neil Nichols, who was a young, newly ordained priest for the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) in Elmhurst, Pa., when the sexual-abuse crisis first … [Read more...]
VDH: the real front is domestic
"The European attitude toward America seems to be 'you must intervene in the Balkans to lead us in the fight against the twilight, but we won't follow you into Afghanistan to battle against abject … [Read more...]
New help line supports Muslim teens
"During a successful trial run in January, we found most of the calls we received had to do with cultural issues rather than religious (ones)," Poonah said. "There's a lot of clash amongst Muslim youth, especially between their … [Read more...]
“Why the Council of Europe thought that intelligent design was a threat to human rights”
In Europe we face the problem that some Muslims borrow ID argumentation for their educational literature, then argue:
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