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 2015
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
May 2, 2015
Pity Joan Walsh of Salon, her racism does not allow blacks personal agency [Darleen Click]
I haven’t commented on the Baltimore, Freddie Gray, incident because I don’t know any more of the incident than has been reported and I know almost nothing about the city and its police department. I do know that with the filing of formal charges yesterday, the officers involved — whose “race” was never mentioned in any coverage — were revealed as three whites and three blacks. Which kind of puts
May 1, 2015
Are you an American ally who has been betrayed? Thank a Democrat! [Darleen Click]
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. What is either forgotten, or deliberately lied about is that Nixon actually won the war with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords … only to have Democrats hand South Vietnam over to the communists.