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Salon writer needs to know: is it time for Blacks to engage in violent revolution against Whitey?

Oh. And this particular author, Brittney Cooper, teaches college students. No, I’m not kidding: I teach college students, and in the hopefulness and optimism of their youth, they are often quick to point out that racial politics are so “different in their generation.” But what I see is black students their age being murdered unceremoniously in locales throughout the country, by white or non-black men, who receive insufficient justice for

““Entrenched anti-Semitic views’ very rare among whites and Asian Americans, common among blacks and Latinos”

— All of which means that the studies aren’t looking at the right kind of whites, namely, those who hide their anti-Semitism in the more political sounding (and socially-“responsible” posturing) of “anti-Zionism,” which manifests itself in leftist academic attempts to push boycotts on Israeli companies, or pressures investors to divest holdings in Israeli interests, etc. But as the megaphones of those types are outsized compared to their actual numerical numbers,

“Stagflation, Anyone?”

Or, “Carter Country:  The Return.”  IBD: Food and energy prices are rising, wages are flat and the top concern among Americans is unemployment. What was that word coined in the ’70s to describe a stagnant economy suffering inflationary pressures? Since the Obama “recovery” started 4-1/2 years ago, inflation appears to have been relatively tame, with core prices climbing just 7% from June 2009 to December 2013. But as CBS News

NBC profiles American Olympic Gold Medalist who leads an “alternative lifestyle” [Darleen Click]

This is what now qualifies as “alternative.” Headline: David Wise’s alternative lifestyle leads to Olympic gold KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — “Hey, Nayeli,” he said peering into the camera. “Daddy loves you!” Those were the words of David Wise, the freestyle skiing halfpipe gold medalist Tuesday night after he won his event’s first-ever Olympic medal. David Wise is at the top of his sport. He’s always smiling among his friends and

“CBO: Wage hike to cost 500K jobs”

But so what?  According to sources like the NYTimes, this loss of employment represents a mixed bag, because it will supposedly pull 1 million people out of poverty — which, not to make light of that, is not too difficult to do when you keep changing the definition of relative poverty so that it constantly jibes with your policy preferences. The truth is, many of those who are now in

Good Lord: the death of the work ethic is upon us

Which shouldn’t be too big a surprise, as it is most famously being displayed by our current President.  [DOG WHISTLE ALERT!]  To that end, here’s what White House Economic Adviser Gene Sperling had to say about the glories of raising the minimum wage (courtesy CNS News): Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016 will help “people who just want to work hard,” but it also will help those who

“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