…he was right about this. Remember the Republican debates in early 2012, and George Stephanopoulos’ seemingly out-of-the-blue and off-the-wall question? Conservative commentator Dick Morris believes that the Democrat party is covertly trying to convince voters that Republicans want to “ban … Continue reading →
I was curious about the reaction of liberal blogs to the Hobby Lobby ruling, and clicked on HuffPo and immediately saw this, right at the top, filling the width of the entire page: THE OPERATIVES [in HUGE blue font, with … Continue reading →
…and you won’t have Melanie Griffith’s problem. Or, don’t get the divorce. I was at the beach the other day and I noticed that about half the people walking around seemed to be tattooed. Highly unattractive, IMHO. In other beach … Continue reading →
Let me make this clear at the outset: one case of child sexual abuse by a Catholic priest would be one too many. Priests and all other clergy are in a very special position of both trust and power that … Continue reading →
We all knew this sort of thing was bound to happen: The Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission has ordered a suburban Denver baker named Jack Phillips to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding that his religious objections do not supersede … Continue reading →
Another woman, who disappeared at the age of 15, has surfaced ten years later with a story of kidnapping. Some of the neighbors who knew her and her kidnapper as a couple don’t believe her story. They say that nothing … Continue reading →
Oregon’s gay marriage ban has been declared null and void: In a ruling that might never be tested in an appeal, a federal judge in Oregon at midday Monday ruled that the state’s ten-year-old ban on same-sex marriage is invalid … Continue reading →
I confess I’m more fascinated than I should be (and perhaps than you are) by the evolving story of the firing of Jill Abramson by the NY Times. It has a little bit of everything: the hypocrisy of a newspaper … Continue reading →
Want a break from politics? Let’s take a look at that 1965 song “Back in My Arms Again,” one of my favorites by the Supremes. Note how subtle and classy the sexuality of their performance is compared to today’s pop … Continue reading →
Why Monica, why now?: After 10 years of virtual silence (“So silent, in fact,” she writes, “that the buzz in some circles has been that the Clintons must have paid me off; why else would I have refrained from speaking … Continue reading →
The foibles of Donald Sterling and his mistress have somehow managed to remind me of these guys, another pair with a rather large age gap, and who represented what in those days (1974) passed for an ethnically diverse couple: For … Continue reading →
I haven’t the time or interest to wade through the entirety of this NY Times Magazine article on how Barack Obama’s views on gay marriage “evolved”; I merely briefly skimmed the first third of it. But Ann Althouse has done … Continue reading →