Mattel — the makers of Barbie — has obtained a court order to prevent the screening of a film showing

Two items from the April issue of Jane Magazine (which arrived quite mysteriously in our mailbox, given no one ’round these parts subscribes to it. But hell, grist for the blog mill, right?). First: According to the facility’s manager, residents of the De Gamles Hus nursing home in Copenhagen are gathering in the communal television room on Saturday nights to watch — not “Murder, She Wrote” or “The Golden Girls”

Don’t get me wrong: Though I’m an adopted son, I’m still profoundly pro-choice when it comes to reproductive rights (though I’d never call myself “pro-abortion” — a label I consider eminently unfair and often viciously misleading). Still, do we really need a

Don’t get me wrong: Though I’m an adopted son, I’m still profoundly pro-choice when it comes to reproductive rights (though I’d never call myself “pro-abortion” — a label I consider eminently unfair and often viciously misleading). Still, do we really need a

Smoke prohibitionists in Winnipeg — in an effort to protect children from “second-hand smoke” — got their wish when a Canadian smoking ban went into effect January 1 for establishments where minors are present. But as Charles Paul Freund points out in the latest Reason [print edition] “the consequences of the new law were not exactly what the lawmakers envisioned.” In fact, a “number of Winnipeg establishments […] opted to

Writing in the WSJ’s “Opinion Journal” on Friday, John J. Miller questions the thinking behind

Writing in the WSJ’s “Opinion Journal” on Friday, John J. Miller questions the thinking behind

“…Ebbody loves ho’ cakes! …Ho’s gots t’eat, too!” If you’re wondering what’s up with the posting today, wonder no more. protein wisdom — wearied (but not beaten, no sir!) by both atrocious student prose and from having to

“…Ebbody loves ho’ cakes! …Ho’s gots t’eat, too!” If you’re wondering what’s up with the posting today, wonder no more. protein wisdom — wearied (but not beaten, no sir!) by both atrocious student prose and from having to

Here’s an excerpt from the transcript of Tee Rall’s appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor”: O’REILLY: … all five of your panels here dealing with individual women are mocking them, and the Daniel Pearl thing, you say, OK, you took that one example, but that’s an egregious example. I mean, as far as I know, Mrs. Pearl, pregnant eight months, isn’t a venal person. Why would you do that? RALL: Well,