The Other McCain

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

A Christian Virgin in Hollywood?

Sixteen-year-old Courtney Alexis Stodden, pictured above, is said to be an aspiring singer, but no one had ever heard of her until she married 51-year-old actor Doug Hutchison: “We’re aware that our vast age difference is extremely controversial,” the couple told E! News in a statement released by their spokesperson. “But we’re very much in […]

Successful Propaganda

Gallup reports that, for the first time ever, a majority of poll respondents favor same-sex marriage. Note the large and rapid change in opinion: A mere 15 years ago, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by more than a 2-to-1 margin, 68% to 27%, whereas now the number is 53%-45% in support of same-sex marriage. “The fantastical […]

You Saw This Coming, Right?

The inexorable logic of “equality”: Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies — if homosexual marriage is […]

Ye Merry Olde Upskirt Traffic

Back in November, when I first had the silly idea of grabbing the “Kate Middleton upskirt photo” Google-bomb (I blame John Hawkins and his Linkiest aggregator site for the inspiration), I little imagined how traffic would surge on the royal wedding day.

Women Are Mean to Me

Little Miss Attila accuses me of advocating “sex-segregated Puritan libertinism.” What I was actually doing, of course, was having fun at the expense of spoilsport Caitlin Flanagan. But let’s face it: I have too much fun. Amanda Marcotte also decided to take a poke at me, for which I’m grateful, since she thereby called my attention […]

Royalists for Social Justice?

After yesterday’s post about the royal wedding, I decided to develop the theme into a column for The American Spectator: Conservatives, predisposed to defend all things traditional and hierarchical, might naturally be expected to admire the British monarchy. But the remarkable fact is that most of the Americans obsessed by the royal wedding (and the […]

Israel, Islam and Endogamy

Is heredity destiny? At least one rabbi says so: ‘Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring’ Rabbi Dov Lior, a senior authority on Jewish law in the Religious Zionism movement, asserted recently that a Jewish woman should never get pregnant using sperm donated by a non-Jewish man –- even if it is the last option available. […]

Brilliant!

Last year, the National Organization for Marriage hired a 24-year-old kid who, as a high school senior in 2004, had gone door-to-door campaigning for John Edwards in the Iowa Democrat caucuses. NOM didn’t just hire liberal Democrat activist Louis J. Marinelli to do office work, stuffing envelopes or something. No, they recruited him as the online […]

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