Is beauty worth commenting on? (Hat tip sdferr in a test of my thoughts on putting comments into posts.) Update! From our friend, Lee: “When I was a youngster, my dad took an interest in botany. All well and good, except he wasn’t over his previous ( and perennial as it turns out) passion for photography, with predictable results. I gotta tell ya, after looking at eighteen thousand pictures of
November 22, 2014
November 22, 2014
This is what a Feminist looks like — The university system as The Village of the Damned [Darleen Click]
Brendan O’Neill on the death of Free Speech in the UK. Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they
November 22, 2014
You’ve been forced to pick your ObamaCare plan, now good luck in keeping even that [Darleen Click]
Because PR is much more important than your silly liberty … Here’s a Friday Obamacare news-dump for you: In a 300-page regulatory proposal released late this afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is considering changing Obamacare’s auto-renewal rules so that, within the health law’s exchanges, instead of being automatically renewed into your current health plan, you’d be moved into the lowest cost plan from the
November 22, 2014
Obama’s amnesty is like Lincoln’s freeing of the slaves … or something … [Darleen Click]
The spin ramps up … Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation provides the foundational precedent for President Obama’s executive order on immigrants in the country illegally. […] Particulars in Obama’s proclamation may well be changed by Americans over time. But like Lincoln’s, its provisional and limited character will have a democracy-forcing effect — spurring officials and citizens to more actively engage in a constitutional dialogue. Rather than refusing to follow the Constitution