Listen: My prediction: she won’t get into significant trouble at CNN for that howler. Nor, unfortunately, will she learn to stop citing “white privilege” about every white person she encounters—or thinks she’s encountering.
Continue reading →You may have already heard about the punishment meted out yesterday by Republicans to Representative Steve King of Iowa: House GOP leaders moved Monday to remove Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) from all of his committee assignments following a firestorm over … Continue reading →
Sometimes when I need some relaxing down time, I surf YouTube. A while back in my YouTube explorations, I came across what are known as “reaction videos.” They’re a strange genre in which people often rack up biggish view counts … Continue reading →
Commenter “Concept Junkie” makes this interesting point about identity politics and today’s Democratic Party: I think the Democrats have put themselves in a box in that they’d look like hypocrites nominating a white male. This limits their list of qualified … Continue reading →
How many people who think Trump is a tyrant because he does too much by executive decree felt the same way about Obama when he used the same tool? Does the Venn diagram of those two groups intersect at all? … Continue reading →
Liberal law professor Lara Bazelon has defended the new guidelines for dealing with charges of sexual offenses under Title IX at universities. The headline of her NY Times opinion piece reads “I’m a Democrat and a Feminist. And I Support … Continue reading →
The death and funeral of George H. W. Bush caused NY Times columnist Ross Douthat to write a piece called “Why We Miss the WASPs.” It contains the usual digs at Trump, of course, but it also expresses some un-PC … Continue reading →
In Europe there’s a trend to criticize or even in some cases do away with the field of gender studies. Naturally, this makes the gender studies professors very very nervous: The attacks take many different forms, including blacklists and harassment … Continue reading →
…Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, as expected. Her victory brings the GOP Senate total to 53. That’s good, because of the tendency of certain other Republican senators to bolt and to vote with the opposition. But this particular race was a bit … Continue reading →
I wasn’t particularly surprised at the results of the recent election. They were predicted, although not every exact detail. Probably none of you were really surprised, either. But on another level I continue to be surprised at how many people … Continue reading →
Well, it depends how you define “white”: In 2015, more than 17 percent of marriages in America were across “racial” lines. It is the reality of ethnic intermarriage that will add critical weight to the conservative argument for cultural assimilation, … Continue reading →
And quite a statement it is: …Kanye West has designed T-shirts urging blacks to leave the Democratic party in a “Blexit,”… More here: West has done the work for his conservative pal, Candace Owens, and her new “movement” which she … Continue reading →