Richard Dawkins has created a bit of a stir by tweeting: All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though. And when the usual uproar ensued, and someone … Continue reading →
I don’t mind slow news days like today has been (so far, anyway). In fact, I rather like them. I like not having to write about Obama’s latest outrage, or the press’s latest whitewash of Obama’s latest outrage, or the … Continue reading →
Highlighted at Instapundit: Girls commit dating violence as often as boys, studies show. “More girls ”“ 43 percent ”“ than boys ”“ 28 percent ”“ reported committing an act of physical dating violence, said researchers who are presenting their findings … Continue reading →
…is Beverly Bivens. I’d never heard her name, either. And although I remember the music of her group We Five very well, I hadn’t thought of it or them for years. A college friend of mine had had their LP, … Continue reading →
…because all the email spam I get about sluts advertises them as being “local.” Why? Aren’t sluts worth a little gas money and a bit of time?
Continue reading →Yemen vs. al Qaeda: Yemen has emerged as the focus of a feared attack that has led the U.S. to shut down temporarily 19 diplomatic posts in the Middle East and Africa. American and British workers from embassies in Yemen’s … Continue reading →
I found the following comment to my post on Tamerlane Tsarnaev and the BBC (cross-posted at Legal Insurrection) to be a good reminder of the difference between our own left/right divide vs. those of Europe: Some concepts don’t translate well … Continue reading →
…but they grind exceedingly fine. Just recently, post-Zimmerman, I wrote a post about former NY Duchess County DA Pagones and Tawana Brawley’s accusations against him. And although I’m glad to see that Brawley is finally paying, money really doesn’t quite … Continue reading →
This. Excerpt: Barack Obama is the first president of the democracy that John Adams warned us about. Democracy never lasts long,” Adams famously said. “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself…” …[T]he United States is not going to fall for … Continue reading →
The MSM seems to be treating this as a very big story. I can’t imagine why, although for them I suppose it’s a sort of inside baseball. But I’ll provide this thread for those of you who want to talk … Continue reading →
Why surprising? After all, he’s 67. But George W. Bush seemed to be in superb health and took very good care of himself. Did all the right things. And yet: a stent was placed in an artery following blockage discovered … Continue reading →
…are getting fearful. Speaking truth to power and all that. [ADDENDUM: Remember Remember CNN head Eason Jordan’s story of cover-up in order to get access to Saddam Hussein’s regime? The dilemma actually isn’t a simple one(employees could have been endangered … Continue reading →