At least kapos had guns to their heads... … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2013
‘DNA debunks longstanding theory that Europe’s first advanced culture was from Africa’?
I love to say I told you so: ‘Hero’ now wanted for murder
Located: Only male comic book reader in history with zero cooties
Old? Bald? Bad teeth? That stuff barely registers. I can even forgive the comics... Still makes me laugh: Still classy: Still talented. (One of the few beautiful songs about male friendship ever -- that's the "Robin Banks" who is name-checked, above): Yep, Paul Simonon … [Read more...]
Everything wrong with America in one story: ‘City Sues Talk Host For ‘Robin Hooding”
Sad: Free Talk Live host Ian Bernard, a.k.a. Ian Freeman, is part of a group of six citizens being sued by the city of Keene, NH for their practice of doing what has become known as “Robin Hooding” in their hometown. … [Read more...]
‘Toronto rabbis called out for shameful betrayal’ — more on Pamela Geller ‘controversy’
Sonny Bono’s message to Obama and the IRS from beyond the grave
Et tu, Cato?
A common Canadian conservative complaint is that we don't have a network of powerful think tanks like they do in America. Like, er, Heritage. And now [Read more...]
What’s so wrong about being ‘anti-Islam’?
I ask this of liberal "conservatives" a lot. Are we not "anti-communist"? And weren't there "good" communists, like Whittaker Chambers? Hell, Oskar Schindler was a "good Nazi." Precisely what is the good/bad ratio that any ideology must achieve in our eyes before we condemn it … [Read more...]
Dana Gould’s Chris Matthews imitation (audio)
‘Politics has evolved from a sometimes stern defence of core values, to the championing of sentimental and gimmicky causes…’
"... by politicians who often have no other way of showing that they are still in touch with the voters. "This has often correctly been seen … [Read more...]
John Derbyshire: ‘Ideological Castration’
Derb: I assumed that Harvard professors eminent enough to be sitting on a dissertation committee would be tenured. To be on the safe side I checked this point with Bob Weissberg, who has spent most … [Read more...]