Race and identity politics have deteriorated into little more than buffonery, but it was only a half-century ago that acts of great personal courage and moral conviction were necessary to bring an end to a deeply unjust system of racial discrimination. Read La Shawn Barber’s post on the late Rosa Park, the woman who [...]

You know the spiel: Blah blah George W. Bush blah blah fundamentalist blah blah evangelicals blah blah theocracy blah blah. It’s all so silly. America isn’t a theocracy, this is a theocracy. How lucky we are to have Saudi Arabia as our close ally in our fight against Islamist aggression.

Michelle Kosinski, reporter for NBC, is caught massaging perceptions in a live bit for the Today show on NBC. Hilarious, must see, real-time takedown of overly ambitious reporter.

Leftie blogger Mattew Yglesias credits National Review with being more of a conservative magazine and less of a partisan talking-point rag, as it is sometimes described by detractors left and right.
But so what, wonders Yglesisas? Does the magazine’s opinions actually count? Do any conservative thoughts count in the G.O.P.?
National Review has consistently shown a lot [...]

There will be no American-bashing, bolshie-loving International Freedom Center at Ground Zero. Common sense and patriotism somehow prevailed.
Big thanks to all the people, in particular friends and relatives of those murdered in the 9/11 Muslism terrorist attacks, who worked against and eventually, it seems, defeated this grotesque proposed faux-morial.

American universities today are pretty much what you’d expect them to have been if the Soviets had won the Cold War (except more expensive). Yet, the Soviets lost the war and the Soviet Union lost not only its vassal states but, in fact, itself, as it has been replaced by the geographically downsized Russia.
So what [...]

Jodie Foster’s turn as FBI-agent Clarice Starling in “The Silence of the Lambs” was a terrific, terrific performance. Since then, however, her career has been a series of movies that have been entirely unimpressive (though she does deserve a lot of credit for nixing the “Hannibal” gore fest). Judging from what Debbie Schlussel writes, Foster’s [...]

Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro thinks the FBI should spend resources investigating producers of adult pornography suspected of obscenity (obscenity being a crime). That is probably, but not definitely, the minority view in America, but not particularly outrageous. This, however, is a brain goof of epic proportions:
This has become the dominant view in our society: [...]

Jason Smith has a post that shows the difference between good and bad leadership.
(I wonder what Senator Mary “One more word and I’ll punch you” Landrieu will say about that? “Yes, you see, those buses weren’t flooded, but the ones in New Orleans were. You see?”)

Fresh off the FEMA fiasco in Louisiana and Mississippi, President George W. Bush is trying to appoint some feather-weight crony to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), thereby demonstrating that the White House a) doesn’t care about the charges of crony-appointments and b) doesn’t care one wit about border control and immigration-law enforcement.
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