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,

We’ve discussed this here before:  the NRA looks for candidates who maintain senior status, which means that the organization is heavily pro-incumbent, provided the candidates they endorse have a stable record on protecting gun ownership. Which raises the question, why is the NRA supporting those whose records on gun rights are not terribly impressive, when many of the groups members are strong constitutional advocates, and as such, are far more

Some of the National Review writers are clearly more willing to look reality in the face than others.  Like Kevin Williamson, for example: I will confess to a little despair over the relatively mild reception that has greeted the evidence, now conclusive and irrefutable, that the Internal Revenue Service, under the direction of senior leaders affiliated with the Democratic party, was used as a political weapon from at least 2010