Second Terror Bombing in Russia
More than 30 people killed in two days: A deadly suicide bombing at a crowded railroad station in southern Russia on Sunday, followed by a blast in a trolley bus on Monday in the same city, raised the specter of a new wave of terrorism six weeks before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. . . […]
Success Is Its Own Defense
If something works, it works. To intellectuals, however, theory takes precedence over practice and ideological abstractions like “equality” are more important than actual success and happiness. So in the wake of their failure to destroy “Duck Dynasty” because of patriarch Phil Robertson’s alleged homophobia, now the Left has its collective panties in a bunch because, in […]
‘Pajama Boy’ as Rorshach Inkblot
"Pajama Boy is yet another emblem of an increasingly non-white electorate" http://t.co/L5O2bIWOZo Uh, okay pic.twitter.com/TsFUPjtsjA — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) December 19, 2013 The latest weird sequel to the ObamaCare ad controversy is the claim that conservatives mocking “Pajama Boy” are anti-Semites. Such a claim involves a lot intellectual gymnastics which might be better described as […]
Facts the ‘Experts’ Never Mention
Philip Klein calls our attention to an overlooked statistic: Massachusetts, whose health care reform program was used as a template for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, had the highest per capita health spending in the U.S. in 2009. . . . [T]he state spent $9,278 per person on health care in 2009, which […]
Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
As if Instapundit’s weird enthusiasm for “robosexuality” weren’t disturbing enough, now there’s this prediction from two MIT geeks: Technological progress is going to leave behind some people, perhaps even a lot of people, as it races ahead. . . . [T]here’s never been a better time to be a worker with special skills or the […]
Russia: 15 Killed in Suicide Bombing
A female bomber at a train station: More than a dozen people were killed Sunday when a blast ripped through a railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd in what authorities say was an attack carried out by a suicide female bomber. If confirmed, the presumed attack will prove to have been the […]
Are You Ready for BBW Barbie?
They should call her “Belinda,” because all girls named “Belinda” are fat. There — that’s the only joke I have for this story: A controversy is brewing over a request to remake Barbie in way contrary to the iconic image so many girls knew growing up. Plus-Size-Modeling.com is suggesting Mattel create a plus-size Barbie. While […]
Another Fake Hate Crime? Arrest Discredits Tennessee Anti-Gay Case
Paris, Tennessee, is a town of 10,000 people about two hours west of Nashville, but it made national headlines last month: Joe Williams, Tennessee Health Food Store Owner, Beaten In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Williams said three men beat him unconscious and wrote a “three-letter homophobic slur” on his forehead in the Nov. 20 attack: The […]
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