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FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short

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Obama’s Millionaire ‘Green’ Ambassador to Finland Mocks Critics in Holiday Card

Bruce Oreck is a lawyer who got rich from his family’s famous vacuum cleaner business. He is an environmentalist who gave about a quarter-million to Democrats in the past two decades and who “bundled” about a half-million in contributions to Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Oreck was rewarded with the ambassadorship to Finland: In 2003, Ambassador […]

Baseball Plans to Ban … Baseball?

The collision at home plate between a runner trying to score and a catcher trying to make the tag — dude, that’s baseball. So the news that Major League Baseball is planning to ban home plate collisions has sparked outrage from fans. Pete Da Tech Guy provides a sample of the reaction and asks: “Hey, […]

Family Values as a Math Problem

While reading Professor William Jacobson’s take on the Utah polygamy decision, I noticed that in the comments, someone had linked a Census Bureau report that included this odd sentence: The proportion of one-person households increased by 10 percentage points between 1970 and 2012, from 17 percent to 27 percent. Uh, no: The proper way to […]

Textbook by Bill Ayers ‘Required Reading’ for Freshmen at Marquette University

This got written up by Nice Deb two weeks ago at Breitbart, but I missed it until I saw it at College Insurrection: Students at Marquette University reacted with surprise and dismay when they were informed that a textbook used in a freshman education course was written by William Ayers, former domestic terrorist and founding […]

Why Are Huffington Post’s ‘Gay Voices’ Columnists Fixated on Underage Sex?

A week ago, a Huffington Post columnist argued that it was homophobic to criticize gay men who use Internet sex sites to meet teenage partners. You might shrug that off as an anomaly, if you didn’t realize that in May, Huffington Post was enthusiastically aboard the “Free Kate” bandwagon to legalize sex with 14-year-olds in […]

‘Emerging Awareness’ Update: Remember the Texas Polygamy Teen Sex Cult?

You have perhaps forgotten the 2008 “underage sex cult” case in which Texas authorities seized 416 children at the Laredo compound of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Facts I noted at the time were that (a) Texas led the nation in teen pregnacy, and (b) in 2005 Texas raised […]

Homegrown Jihadi Caught in Bomb Plot; GOP-Hating Kid Is School Shooter

Remember in April 2009 how Obama’s Department of Homeland Security warned about the danger of “right-wing extremists”? If patriotic citizens are so dangerous, why is it that people who want to commit terrorism are typically devotees of the Religion of Peace™? For months, authorities allege, a 58-year-old avionics technician named Terry Lee Loewen — driven […]

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