The Inspiration: A story: Great-uncle Virgil never married after Ruby left. The other town girls tried to woo him, showing up at the house he had built for his erstwhile bride with covered dishes and no underwear. He turned them away, keeping a picture of Ruby in the foyer. Packing up the house after the funeral, I lifted Ruby from the wall, meaning to put her in the trunk I
May 7, 2015
Associated Press doubles down on tacit support for #Garland Islamist terrorists [Darleen Click]
I have no words … Pamela Geller says she has no regrets about Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in 2 deaths: http://t.co/3QabvaBs4w — The Associated Press (@AP) May 8, 2015
May 7, 2015
“Free Speech vs. Hate Speech” [Darleen Click]
The headline above is from the NYTimes … and succinctly reveals the ostensible American who has decided Liberty is just too over-rated. There is no question that images ridiculing religion, however offensive they may be to believers, qualify as protected free speech in the United States and most Western democracies. There is also no question that however offensive the images, they do not justify murder, and that it is incumbent
May 6, 2015
CA AG Kamala Harris’s aide arrested for running fake police force [Darleen Click]
Bizarre, indeed. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Roosevelt Johnson thought it was odd when three people — two of them dressed in police uniforms he didn’t recognize — strolled into the Santa Clarita station in February. One man introduced himself as chief of the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and told Johnson this was a courtesy call to let him know the agency was setting up shop in the area. They
May 6, 2015
Well, thank you, Mrs. Obama, for all those healing words on race … [Darleen Click]
What would we ever do without you taking every opportunity to browbeat Americans of pallor on their inherent racism? First lady Michelle Obama used a speech Monday that was supposed to be celebrating the opening of a new museum to instead dig deeper the racial divide that’s been growing ever wider during her husband’s presidency. “Museums and concert halls,” she said, just don’t welcome non-white visitors – especially children –
May 5, 2015
All your children are belong to us: The State as legal guardian from 0-18 [Darleen Click]
A Progressive’s wet dream A legal fight in Scotland’s highest civil court starts today to block an SNP plan to assign every child a state guardian over claims it rides roughshod over parents’ rights to raise their children how they see fit. Judge Lord Pentland is to examine the lawfulness of the measure, contained in the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act, which assigns a “named” person such as a
May 4, 2015
Punch back twice as hard [Darleen Click]
Re: Garland, Texas My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. — Evan Sayet (@EvanSayet) May 4, 2015 Re: UCLA BDS Party loses Lets Act! (LA), the far-left student political party at UCLA, was dramatically swept from power, in election results released Friday, May 1, 2015. LA, a coalition of mostly identity-based groups (e.g. Afrikan Student Union, MEChA, Queer Alliance, etc.)
May 3, 2015
“I intend to vote with my vagina.” [Darleen Click]
Well, honey, I do hope you intend to vote absentee, otherwise please be polite enough to pass a few wet-wipes to next person to go into the voting booth behind you. There has never been a president who knows what it’s like to menstruate, be pregnant, or give birth. There has never been a president who knows what it’s like to be the target of subtle and categorically unsubtle sexism.
May 2, 2015
“Where the Baltimore Police Went Wrong” [Darleen Click]
An interview with David Simon. Bill Keller: What do people outside the city need to understand about what’s going on there—the death of Freddie Gray and the response to it? David Simon: I guess there’s an awful lot to understand and I’m not sure I understand all of it. The part that seems systemic and connected is that the drug war—which Baltimore waged as aggressively as any American city—was transforming