Mark Steyn looks back at "Let's Roll": Then they rushed the hijackers. Mrs Jefferson kept the line open. A few minutes later, the plane crashed, not at Camp David or the White House or the … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2017
NYT covers The Rebel Live event in Toronto: “…here was a listless, modestly sized crowd…”
If the New York Times held an event that drew 9000 people (because that would be the US equivalent of The Rebel's 900 attendees) would that … [Read more...]
In a Lonely Place (1950): “Film noir as an opera of male fury”
Carrie Rickey writes: While hiring Grahame did the opposite of shoring up the collapsing Ray union, their marriage was mined for considerable effect in Ray’s … [Read more...]
Gavin McInnes: #Canada150 From A to Zed
Gavin McInnes writes: Trudeau will be gone in 2020 and that’s when the Great White North can get back to being great again. Until then, we’re going to focus on getting hammered. … [Read more...]
Wanna know what I’M gonna “buy myself”? Hint: Not a frickin’ “hat”…
Mark Steyn: “A few days ago, a sniper with Canada’s special forces broke the world record for longest confirmed kill…”
Mark Steyn writes: ...picking off a Soldier of Allah at 3,450 meters - which is over two miles. That's phenomenal and unprecedented, and the JTF2 guy who did it deserves all the honours the … [Read more...]
“Kim [Kardashian] has remade the idea of nude in her own image”
I wish I’d written this... Kim Kardashian’s career can be mapped by a series of nudes: the leaked tape that turned her into a national sex symbol; the bathroom selfie that brought … [Read more...]
“What Might be Missing in the Muslim World?”
Dr. Denis MacEoin writes: In April this year, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh 'Ali Gomaa, told an interviewer what he meant as a flat statement of fact: that there are no female heart … [Read more...]
“Dr Hanlon suggests conservative students turn to Thomas Sowell rather than, say, Ann Coulter or Milo Yiannopoulos…”
Yeah, fuck off... ...with the implication that this preference for measured critique would somehow resolve the problems of campus thuggery and wider attempts to short-circuit any … [Read more...]
Dark Corners: “Mad Foxes” (1981)
David Cole: “Trott’s closing paragraph piqued my interest in a way that no previous HuffPost ‘damn you racist whitey’ piece has ever been able to do…”
David Cole writes: Yes, after years of gay activists bitching and moaning about Christians pushing “gay conversion therapy,” a gay brutha, with the full support of Arianna Huffington & Co., is … [Read more...]
“Murphy is interested in ‘Baby Jane’ only as a trashy signifier…”
I couldn’t watch more than a minute of Feud — Jessica Lange was terminally miscast, and the dialogue was 90% rigid exposition. But this guy makes an … [Read more...]