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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Arizona Fed Judge’s Critics ‘Expressed Their Displeasure in a Perverted Way’

The people aren’t happy with Judge Susan Bolton: Authorities say a federal judge in Phoenix has been getting some threats since her ruling on Arizona’s controversial immigration law. David Gonzales, the U.S. Marshal for Arizona, says U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has received thousands of phone calls and e-mails since her preliminary injunction Wednesday that […]

Free Movies You’ll Probably Skip

Without comment: Thursdays this summer at the Atlas Performing Arts Center [in Washington, D.C.] will be Gay 101 – a series of films one must see to be a card-carrying gay man. While most are not gay-themed, all are embraced by the gay and lesbian community. Classics such as All About Eve, and Whatever Happened […]

Shirley Sherrod’s Lawsuit Threat Against Andrew Breitbart Is Still Just a Threat

It’s the easiest thing in the world to say, “I’ll sue you for defamation!” Actually filing such a lawsuit is another and far more drastic step. A government official successfully pursuing a defamation suit against a private citizen is quite nearly impossible. Any responsible lawyer would provide three words of helpful advice to Shirley Sherrod: “Discovery’s a bitch.”

White Hipster Beaten by Black Teen: ‘Shouldn’t Be Listening to Rap Music’

Cultural criticism in Broward County, Florida: Declaring that white people “shouldn’t be listening to rap music,” a 14-year-old Florida boy allegedly assaulted a man Monday night in what police say was a racially-motivated attack. The teenager was arrested after he allegedly struck the 22-year-old victim, who is white, in the face. According to a Palm […]

‘When I Was Younger, So Much Younger Than Today . . .’

On this date in 1965, the second Beatles movie, Help! premiered in London: Of course, I found out about this on Twitter.  Something else I saw on Twitter was this article by my young friend Chris Moody: With the turn of a phrase, Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann seemed to sum up last weekend’s RightOnline conference, an […]

Time Magazine Confesses: Rush Is Right!

You don’t see this every day: President Obama has called the BP oil spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,” and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the “Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast,” while CBS, Fox and MSNBC slap “Disaster in the Gulf” chryons on all their […]

Matthew Yglesias: ‘Got Mine, Jack’

Harvard alumnus declares that getting into Harvard is no big deal, at least for poor white kids: People who are plausible admission candidates at Harvard and don’t quite make the cut end up at Columbia or Penn. People who don’t get into Berkeley go to UCLA. And they all end up fine. There’s just absolutely no need […]

Surprise: Federal Judge Upholds University’s ‘No Christians Allowed’ Policy

The limits of “diversity”: A federal judge has ruled in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its graduate program in school counseling over her belief that homosexuality is morally wrong. . . . U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh dismissed [Julea] Ward’s lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University. She was removed […]

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