One of a kind -- thanks for everything: “I just hate crying scenes in movies,” Elwy Yost once confessed to Jim Bawden, former Star TV … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2011
Union teachers and Jewish mayors hardest hit!
Where else but the NYT? But the latest state math and English tests show that the proficiency gap between minority and white students has returned to about the same level as when the mayor … [Read more...]
‘What component of gay, lesbian, transgendered and bisexual history have we avoided in the Civil War?’
MS: Well, (laughing), every time, if you say to a Southerner, if you mention…you remember that scurrilous cartoon showing Jefferson Davis being captured in women’s clothing?[Read more...]
Apartheid: was it all bad?
(As I've been asking for a while now...) [Ilana Mercer] is questioning the sustainability of a Western society that slips into nonwhite (and non-Asian) hands, and she offers her former South … [Read more...]
Canada’s Supreme Court says Charter ok’s racial segregation — as long as it’s just Indians doing it
Brian Lilley reports: On Thursday, the learned justices populating our court issued a unanimous ruling that said it is perfectly fair for a Metis group in Alberta to kick a woman … [Read more...]
‘Sitting at the back of the bus is deemed cool’
The best thing about defenders of the mosqueteria? They just keep talking and talking and... BONUS: here's a Toronto public school employee, … [Read more...]
Journalists: your moral and intellectual superiors!!
Cover of Marianne Faithful’s new album doesn’t seem to be a joke
Al-Jazeera gives a shout out to Blazing Cat Fur
An anonymous blogger at a blog called Blazing Cat Fur first noted it online, observing: "School administration take part preparing the Cafeteria and making it into mosque … [Read more...]
Greedy old people are living too long and ruining the world
This is simply a fact. All your life you've been tut-tutting (correctly) "politicians never keep their promises." Well, why did you believe that one? Oh, right: because … [Read more...]
The ‘poor’ are the rich Jesus warned you about: 32% own more than two TVs
Thomas Sowell has been pushing this message for years. Thanks to the loyal 5FF reader who sent this in: … [Read more...]
Shocka! Journalist who called Mark Steyn ‘racist’ has history of ‘mental health problems’
That's right -- it's our pal Jonathan Hari. Remember him? Independent columnist Johann Hari describes Mark Steyn as a racist in this interview with British writer Martin Amis. His … [Read more...]