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February 18, 2014

“University textbook claims Reagan was sexist, conservatives view people as incapable of ‘charity,’ ‘lazy'”

So long as we allow the left to write our history — and by “write” I mean “create, shape, contextualize, and, in many cases, fictionalize” — our history will be an amalgamation of leftist lies meant to propagandize. The long march through the institutions is not some abstract theoretical plan by hard leftists to shape in our citizens from an early age onward a particular cognitive frame and in so

Identity politics and sport

Or, “Draft a potential bust or risk the wrath of a sanctimonious, superficial, 2-minute Bob Costas diatribe.” Jim Geraghty explains, using the case of Michael Sam, an openly gay defensive lineman / rush linebacker who is eligible for this year’s NFL Draft: Those of us who are sports fans are going to have a fascinating couple weeks ahead, as the national political and cultural media insists upon interpreting the events

I get emails

— Often — and for reasons I can’t fathom — from out of state Democrat Congresspeople. For instance, this one arrived this morning from North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District Representative Jason Thigpen, who wants me to help him help America by insisting that Congress have a say on what employers are required to pay workers, given the horrific gap between the rich and poor. Writes (whomever wrote this for) Thigpen:

“Against heterosexuality” [Darleen Click]

A thoughtful and thought provoking piece by Michael W. Hannon, who agrees with “poststructuralist queer theorists in their vigorous critiques of the naive orientation essentialists”. First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct. These classifications masquerade as natural categories, applicable to all people in all times and places according to the typical objects of

John Kerry: forget all the snow and ice. Think of it as a metaphor for fire and drought.

Honestly.  The projection involved in asserting that it’s conservatives who are anti-science is astounding in its audacity.  But then, it’s supposed to be that way, because the true audacity at the source of it all is the refiguration of science as something driven by politicized consensus and a simple repetition of inconvenient untruths. For instance, John Kerry spent time in Jakarta, fresh from calling the threat of global warming a