Glimmer of sanity Officials sent home 66 Palm Desert High School students Wednesday, telling them to miss up to seven days of classes because they haven’t been immunized for measles. The students won’t return to school until Feb. 9 unless they confirm they’ve received immunization or show proof of resistance as determined by a Titer test, according to the Desert Sands Unified School District. The district’s decision came just two
January 2015
January 29, 2015
Trigger alert: “I’ve already seen the bulge …” [Darleen Click]
Oh.The.Humanity! There’s a mantra quickly repeating in my head: “Please have a badge. Please have a badge. Please have a badge.” It’s a steady heartbeat as I begin a conversation with a shop clerk and reposition myself so I can peer over her shoulder. I’ve already seen the bulge in his jacket, and it’s clear from the size and shape that he has a holstered gun. Now my eyes are
January 27, 2015
NOT The Onion: “We must dismantle the tyranny of the white male syllabus.” [Darleen Click]
I’m going to post the whole thing because … because … I’m in awe (and not in a good way) … Remember now, this is the nation’s number one ranked public university: We are calling for an occupation of syllabi in the social sciences and humanities. This call to action was instigated by our experience last semester as students in an upper-division course on classical social theory. Grades were based
January 27, 2015
HuffPo’s Sofia Eribo uses Holocaust Remembrance Day to engage in some anti-Semitism [Darleen Click]
Nothing says Judenhass like appropriating a singular historical monstrosity and using to grind your own grievances EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog previously contained quotation marks around the six million figure on Holocaust deaths. The author did not mean cast doubt over the figure, it was meant as a quotation. We apologise for any offence this caused. For the US and EU member states, January 27 is a time to reflect on
January 27, 2015
“Bowe Bergdahl to be charged with desertion”
But hey, before you criticize Obama for what appears to be a really poor trade from of an overmatched GM, you have to first decide who’s side he’s really playing for. Because that changes the whole dynamic. Context is key.
January 27, 2015
“Sharyl Attkisson to Testify on ‘Free Press Issues’ at Attorney General Nomination Hearing”
Daily Signal: Former CBS reporter and Daily Signal senior independent contributor Sharyl Attkisson will testify at this week’s confirmation hearings for Loretta Lynch, who was nominated by President Obama to replace Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General. Attkisson, who was invited to speak on a panel of witnesses by the Senate Judiciary Committee led by Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, will address issues concerning freedom of the press. She tells The Daily
January 27, 2015
Well, if nothing else, the latest White House security breach teaches a valuable civics lesson:
Never, ever drink and drone.
January 27, 2015
I hate to admit it, but I can’t outdo Allahpundit on this one:
Romneyism in one line: “Romney is determined to re-brand himself as authentic” http://t.co/sJgSvz7ZRL — Allahpundit (@allahpundit) January 27, 2015 My deference duly paid, let me just add an addendum, in the form of an instructive: if you even conceive of authenticity as a kind of costume worn for specific audiences on specific occasions, your very misunderstanding of what authenticity actually is dictates that you have absolutely no chance of ever
January 26, 2015
“Abortion Killed 19 Times as Many Blacks as Murder”
Well, first you have to think of aborted fetuses as babies, but at the very least I think we can all agree that what was killed were the biological conditions and materials that, left to their own devices would, in most cases, result in the completion of a human baby. Which, I grant, is a minor nitpick. Beyond that, I don’t have much to write on the subject — mostly
January 26, 2015
Obama doesn’t believe in “nation building”
…unless it involves fundamental transformation, in the case of the US; the installation of the Muslim Brotherhood and the spread of a caliphate, in the case of Egypt and Yemen; and now, the deposing of Bibi Netanyahu in Israel in favor of some left-wing appeasenik who might actually take Obama’s feckless, bullshit approach to “peace” in the Middle East — which seems to involve empowering Iran and fighting all serious