… on the eve of Mariner 9 going into orbit around Mars.
June 9, 2012
Non-news of the Day: Don Rickles is still Don Rickles [Darleen Click]
HuffPo clutches pearls and breathlessly shrieks Don Rickles Tells Obama Racial Joke At AFI’s Shirley MacLaine Tribute Like many comedians of his generation, Rickles’ act has long included racial humor that would be considered unacceptable to today’s audiences. But as race relations evolved, it became rarer and rarer for comedians like Rickles to include such jokes in their act. Rickles has been doing his “no one is safe from being
June 8, 2012
PERISH the thought we’d ever advocate firing or not hiring men with stay-at-home wives … [Darleen Click]
… but [nudge nudge wink wink] you know they do stand in the way of the Gender Revolution In this article, we examine a heretofore neglected pocket of resistance to the gender revolution in the workplace: married male employees who have stay-at-home wives. We develop and empirically test the theoretical argument suggesting that such organizational members, compared to male employees in modern marriages, are more likely to exhibit attitudes, beliefs,
June 8, 2012
Obama on the economy: “The private sector is doing fine … ” [Darleen Click] UPDATED x2
… it’s the public sector jobs we have to save! Question: What about the Republicans saying that you’re blaming the Europeans for the failures of your own policies? President Obama: The truth of the matter is that, as I said, we created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months, over 800,000 just this year alone. The private sector is doing fine. Where we’re seeing weaknesses in our economy have
June 8, 2012
Posts about convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin gaining attention [Darleen Click]
via The Right Scoop Congressman Marchant Washington, Jun 7 – Congressman Kenny Marchant (TX-24) today issued a statement in strong support of free speech and conservative bloggers who are being targeted in dangerous “SWAT-tings” and asked Attorney General Holder to investigate these matters to see if federal laws have been violated by the perpetrators. ABC reports. Michelle Malkin asks “Where do your elected representatives stand on this threat to our
June 7, 2012
Wonder how the dinner conversation in the White House goes tonight … [Darleen Click]
… what with Barry’s lesbian-oral-sex joke about Michelle going viral … Of course, the CNN bimbette here is absolutely desperate to spin this as Barack being “blindsided” by the reaction to his “scripted” comment. Yes, really.
June 7, 2012
What’s so New about the New Party?
Well, evidence of Barack Obama’s membership in the Chicago chapter, for starters. Honestly: how much longer must we pretend that only the fringe conspiracy lunatics of the “far right” have ever believed Obama to be a Marxist socialist — a stance adopted by Republican pragmatists to avoid the ridicule of other Marxist socialists looking to hide just who and what they are? Stanley Kurtz: On the evening of January 11,
June 7, 2012
“Dershowitz: Zimmerman Prosecutor Threatening to Sue Harvard for My Criticism”
I ask you all to remember again that this woman is a Republican, and that in fact this entire prosecution has been driven by Republican officials looking to burnish their racial bona fides to avoid the predictable charges of racism that slip profitably from the mouths of “civil rights” leaders like, eg., Al Sharpton, or race-baiting politicians like our current President. That is, I ask you all to remember that
June 7, 2012
“Senator Asks DOJ to Investigate SWAT-ting Attacks on Conservative Bloggers”
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light! ABC News: A number of conservative bloggers allege they have been targeted through the use of harassment tactics such as SWAT-ting (fooling 911 operators into sending emergency teams to their homes), in retaliation for posts they have written, and now Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., has stepped into the matter. He has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder urging him to