The Power of Prejudice
Rule One of “How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog” is shameless blogwhoring. Think of it as an existential philosophy: In the New Media environment, that which is not promoted does not exist. “I blogwhore, therefore I am.” So, after I was the first to report Rick Santorum’s endorsement of Curtis Bostic in […]
‘We Record What Is to All Known’
The Fall of Man (or, Adam and Eve), Hendrick Goltzius, 1616 (detail) “The true origin of marriage, venerable brothers, is well known to all. Though revilers of the Christian faith refuse to acknowledge the never-interrupted doctrine of the Church on this subject, and have long striven to destroy the testimony of all nations and of […]
South Carolina ‘Cash Money’ Loyalty
OK, we all remember Will Folks, right? The guy who claimed he had an affair with Nikki Haley? The guy is a lowdown polecat, which is another way of saying he’s a South Carolina GOP consultant — or, at least, he used to be one, although his anti-Haley smear may have made him too radioactive even […]
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DHS To Buy 360,000 More Rounds of Hollow Point Ammunition NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Government has right to ‘infringe on your freedom’ They told me if I voted for Mitt Romney, etc.
Syria: It’s Complicated. Also, It Sucks.
The Lightworker’s Mideast visit was surely an ill omen, and now it appears that the opposition to Syria’s Iranian-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad is in disarray — which may not necessarily be bad news, given the now-obvious post-“Arab Spring” complications: Syria’s opposition coalition was on the verge of collapse Sunday after its president resigned and rebel […]
#TrustCurtis @Bostic4Congress Campaign Has Eight Days to Stop Sanford in S.C.
The South Carolina runoff is a week from Tuesday and time is of the essence: If South Carolina Republicans nominate disgraced former Gov. Mark Sanford in the First District special election, it would be “an off-year election gift” to “the late-night comedians and political press,” Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics wrote Friday. And given […]
Mr. Nobel Peace Prize Works His Magic: Israel Now at War With Syria?
All it took was an Obama trip to the Mideast, and suddenly everything seems to be flying completely sideways: Reuters is reporting that Israel has fired upon and destroyed a machine gun position in the Golan Heights. It is unclear at this moment whether this is merely spillover from the Syrian civil war or whether […]
‘You Better Back It Up’: Security Guard Tasers Aggressive Woman on Video
What led to this dispute at an Atlanta mini-mall in January, I don’t know. This video went viral and already has more than 2 million views. By the time the security guard’s camera starts rolling, two obstreperous women are hurling the “n-word” and various obscene slurs at the guard, who repeatedly warns them to leave. Finally, after […]
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