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The “DC Madam” has committed suicide.
A new statue of Matin Luther King is causing a bit of a fuss.
Changing the rules in one local areas is driving illegals (and possibly others) to surrounding areas.
Publishing the laws of Oregon is apparently a breach of copyright. More.
Some of the academics involved in publicly hounding the Duke Universty Lacrosse players over the spurious rape charges came across as self-righteous academic wankers: a few of them have now published on the case and removed all doubt. And also: I particularly liked the implicit argument that only folk like them are really entitled to discuss issues of race, due to their expertise.
Being found guilty of “racial harassment” for reading a public library book: The people at the Affirmative Action Office were so myopically intent on finding a Klansman, they failed to see a natural ally standing before them.
The unchecked power of such campus bureaucrats needs to be restrained. And if a union like AFSCME won't protect its workers' constitutional rights, it should go out of business.
If they can stop me from reading one book, then they can stop any American from reading any book.
Rio Bravo as a celebration of democracy, community and a sense of human worth. Exploring why conservatives tend to be happier than liberals: But in as much as the American left is now a coalition of groups that define themselves as the victims of social and economic forces, and in as much as its leaders encourage people to feel helpless and aggrieved, he thinks they make America a glummer place.
The Left begins to reconsider Reagan: What happened in '72 was the aggressive, conscious, tough, skillful disenfranchising of organized labor and of the big city machines, by George McGovern. McGovern was thought of as a soft prairie farmer. He was one tough cookie, a man who took a nonexistent Democratic Party in South Dakota and produced a senator-that was himself-not many years later. What happened in '72-that formalized, aggressive takeover of the Democratic Party by one faction at the expense of another-is what we're seeing playing out right now. It is no accident, comrade, that in '76 Reagan makes a strong run and in '80 he makes it into the White House over the remains of the badly divided Democratic Party.
Being deeply disturbed and perturbed by the fratricidal Hillary v Obama war. A nice turning of the knife into Obama’s language shifting.
Condescending to voters is not a great way to get their support. How Hillary is channelling her inner Republican (or something). And doing better in the polls. With a black Senator fighting a woman Senator, all the fun of identity politics is all the rage.
The Republican Party has the lowest level of support in two decades of polling.
A new statue of Matin Luther King is causing a bit of a fuss.
Changing the rules in one local areas is driving illegals (and possibly others) to surrounding areas.
Publishing the laws of Oregon is apparently a breach of copyright. More.
Some of the academics involved in publicly hounding the Duke Universty Lacrosse players over the spurious rape charges came across as self-righteous academic wankers: a few of them have now published on the case and removed all doubt. And also: I particularly liked the implicit argument that only folk like them are really entitled to discuss issues of race, due to their expertise.
Being found guilty of “racial harassment” for reading a public library book: The people at the Affirmative Action Office were so myopically intent on finding a Klansman, they failed to see a natural ally standing before them.
The unchecked power of such campus bureaucrats needs to be restrained. And if a union like AFSCME won't protect its workers' constitutional rights, it should go out of business.
If they can stop me from reading one book, then they can stop any American from reading any book.
Rio Bravo as a celebration of democracy, community and a sense of human worth. Exploring why conservatives tend to be happier than liberals: But in as much as the American left is now a coalition of groups that define themselves as the victims of social and economic forces, and in as much as its leaders encourage people to feel helpless and aggrieved, he thinks they make America a glummer place.
The Left begins to reconsider Reagan: What happened in '72 was the aggressive, conscious, tough, skillful disenfranchising of organized labor and of the big city machines, by George McGovern. McGovern was thought of as a soft prairie farmer. He was one tough cookie, a man who took a nonexistent Democratic Party in South Dakota and produced a senator-that was himself-not many years later. What happened in '72-that formalized, aggressive takeover of the Democratic Party by one faction at the expense of another-is what we're seeing playing out right now. It is no accident, comrade, that in '76 Reagan makes a strong run and in '80 he makes it into the White House over the remains of the badly divided Democratic Party.
Being deeply disturbed and perturbed by the fratricidal Hillary v Obama war. A nice turning of the knife into Obama’s language shifting.
Condescending to voters is not a great way to get their support. How Hillary is channelling her inner Republican (or something). And doing better in the polls. With a black Senator fighting a woman Senator, all the fun of identity politics is all the rage.
The Republican Party has the lowest level of support in two decades of polling.