Influence of Jerry Lee Lewis Has Belated and Unexpected Effect in Nigeria
Ever since the Killer married his 13-year-old cousin Myra, we’ve been warned about the decadence caused by rock-and-roll, which has finally corrupted even the most distant societies: Nigeria’s Senate has ordered an investigation into reports that one of its members has married a 13-year-old Egyptian girl. Ahmad Sani Yerima, 49, is alleged to have married her at the […]
Dow Loses 213 Points on Debt Crisis in Greece, Portugal; Rachel Maddow Trying to Figure Out How to Blame Sarah Palin
Let the blame game begin! A downgrade of Greece’s credit rating to “junk” status sent stocks to their worst one-day loss in more than two months . . . The Dow snapped a six-day winning streak, plummeting 213.04 points, or 1.9%, to 10991.99, suffering its worst decline in both point and percentage terms since Feb. […]
National Security Advisor Archie Bunker
No need to get all outrageously outraged here, but Gen. James Jones ought to have thought twice before telling Jew jokes at a foreign-policy seminar: Professor William Jacobson observes: I have no problem with the joke. I think we have to be able to laugh at ourselves, including laughing at stereotypes; in humor we often […]
Memo to Steven L. Taylor: You Can’t Drive If You Can’t Read the Road Signs
Frankly, I was stunned to see my fellow JSU alumnus Dr. James Joyner endorse this bit of antinomian nonsense: [I]f you actually want people who are not fully proficient in English to have demonstrated their capacity to drive, then you probably want to give the test in a way that will make sure that they […]
Hey, Baby, Let’s Get Seismic
Great pickup lines in Tehran: A senior Iranian cleric has claimed that dolled-up women incite extramarital sex, causing more earthquakes in Iran, a country that straddles several fault lines, newspapers reported today. “Many women who dress inappropriately . . . cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which […]
Geirei Toshav
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Not that there was ever any doubt, but I’m now a Certified Righteous Gentile after attending a Passover seder Monday hosted by Barbara Espinosa’s friends Larry and Jobi Rosen. The haggadah wasn’t strictly traditional — part of the ritual telling of Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian slavery was performed to the tune of “Gilligan’s […]
Ann Coulter Hears a Houle
They shut down her speech Tuesday in the People’s Republic of Ottawa, but the Canadian Thought Police couldn’t prevent her from filing her latest column: This marks the first time I’ve ever gotten hate mail for something I might do in the future. Apparently Canadian law forbids “promoting hatred against any identifiable group,” which the provost, […]
Karl Rove, the Bush Dynasty, and the GOP Elite’s Push for ‘Immigration Reform’
Steve Sailer attempts to explain the otherwise inexplicable disaster: On the personal side, George and Barbara Bush employed a live-in Mexican maid, Paula Rendon, of whom W. has said, “I have come to love her like a second mother.” He went on to employ another Mexican immigrant, Maria Galvan, to raise his two daughters. Younger brother […]
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