…and provide for our protection.  The left in the sixties told us to question authority.  What they meant, though, was to question any authority they themselves don’t control.   Who knew? Gateway Pundit: Tommy Yancy, 32, father of two, was savagely beaten to death by five law enforcement officers during a routine traffic stop near the city of Imperial last Sunday, on Mother’s Day. Yancy, a veteran who suffered from PTSD,

From the files of “it’s who they are. It’s what they do,” here’s another academic’s run-in with what I’ve come to call the most anti-intellectual of all public spaces, the contemporary academy.  And this indictment includes, among other more intellectual spaces, public restrooms, which have not as yet to my knowledge set up “free speech zones” or allowed for the organized harassment of Jews and conservatives.   From Public Discourse,

How soon before Kevin Williamson finds himself Derbyshired? Not for anything he writes here, mind you. But for the fundamental intellectualism that is intrinsic to his pieces, which one day are going to piss off certain editors at certain erstwhile conservative publications? But that’s just me speculatin’ about a hypothesis. Williamson: Slavery in Nigeria, the occupation of Ukraine, whatever: It ain’t about you, Sunshine. The “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign,

Shhhh.  You’ll hurt their esteem! Here’s another question that should have been asked of these George Mason students: who is George Mason, and why should anyone care? $50 bucks says at least 3 in 10 students called him a dead white male slave owner who helped disenfranchise blacks and women and killed the Native Americans. And all it would have cost them is about $150K plus books!

In fact, they tend to label much of first-wave or equity feminism as “anti-feminist.” Which, a convenient way to set yourself up as the spokespeople for contemporary feminism, that. Christina Sommers (and I’d add Cathy Young) has been at the forefront of equity feminism — as distinguished from gender feminism (or what I’ve called establishment or academic feminism) — for years now. An adept of the first wave feminist movement,

Jesus. We can only hope: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) defended her committee’s oversight of the CIA on Sunday, but at the same time, she called the House select committee on Benghazi a “lynch mob.” “I think it’s ridiculous,” Feinstein told CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley. “I think it’s a hunting mission for a lynch mob, actually. I think that’s what’s going on.” Feinstein says she believes all

Weasel Zippers — and Geoff B here — were on this two weeks ago.  It’s now making its way into the mainstream press (see above), albeit only on the right-wing side.   I guess the targeting of private businesses by type, creating problems for them with financing institutions, isn’t something that the major mainstream liberal press finds newsworthy. Because some old guy somewhere probably said something racist. And OUTRAGE! The

And just so we’re on the same page here, remember:  gun sellers are aiding in the securing of a foundational individual right. Washington Times: Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress and choke off their lines of credit, freeze their assets and prohibit online sales. Since 2011, regulators have increased scrutiny on banks’ customers. The Federal

Wow, like maybe the sexes aren’t fungible after all? Every time I find myself watching my girls make choices that are stereotypically “girly,” I flash back to a scene just a few years before they were born. I was in graduate school, involved in a lively discussion about the rhetoric of architecture. The details of the conversation are unimportant, but it ended with me appealing to my fellow progressive eggheads,