WASHINGTON POST: Meet the honor brigade, an organized campaign to silence debate on Islam.
And see this related piece from Robert Blitt.
Archive for 2015
January 17, 2015
January 16, 2015
PAUL MIRENGOFF: The racial politics of seating a white sex offender in the Virginia state legislature.
The 17-year old Morrissey “corrupted” is African-American. This leads some African-American delegates to insist that Morrissey cannot be permitted to sit in the legislature. White “master” praying on black subordinate, and all that.
But wait! Morrissey’s constituents are predominantly African-American. Thus, some contend it would be “paternalistic” for mostly white legislators to deny these folks the representative of their choice. Disenfranchisement of blacks, and all that.
Cornel West, call your office.
We really are living in the Crazy Years.
THIS SHOULD BE FUN: Bullets And Bourbon.
KRAUTHAMMER ON OBAMA: “Charlie Who?”
ATYPICALLY FEISTY OF THEM: RNC calls DNC out on Democratic pedophiles.
IS FRANCE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF A CHRISTIAN REVIVAL? “Yes, churches in the French countryside are desperately empty. There are no young people there. But then, there are no young people in the French countryside, period. France is a modern country with an advanced economy, and that means its countryside has emptied, and that means that churches built in an era when the country’s sociological makeup was quite different go empty. In the cities — which is where people are, and where cultural trends gain escape velocity — the story is quite different. . . . It was only recently that I was struck by the fact that, imperceptibly, the majority of my college and grad school friends who were Christmas-and-Easter-Catholics when we met now report going to Church every Sunday and praying regularly. On social media, they used to post about parties; now they’re equally likely to post prayers for persecuted Middle East Christians or calls to help the homeless over the holidays.”
Well, my University of Tennessee colleague Rosalind Hackett has been predicting for some time that militant Christianity, not militant Islam, would be the religious force of the 21st Century.
FOLLOWUP: Still liking the SpyderCo Endura pocketknife that SayUncle recommended.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Lowering the Bar: Law Schools Are Increasingly Admitting Students Who Are Unlikely to Pass the Bar Exam. Not at the University of Tennessee, happily.
21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “He constantly talked about crushing the patriarchy, which appealed to the neophyte feminist in me. An innocent search of his Yahoo! screen name had let me know he was eight inches. He would never finish, and it took all of my efforts to even get him hard. For us, sex was him staring blankly at the wall as he planked on top of me.”
WHY FROZEN IS ACTUALLY ABOUT GUN CONTROL: The King and Queen have to learn the hard way that banning magic won’t work…
THE CITIZENS’ GUIDE to Regime Change. “All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere. . . . If misery alone brought down failed oppressive regimes, North Korea would be a free country today.”
LAUGH ALL YOU WANT, but it could have saved Bill Clinton’s presidency.
I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Huge Explosions At Donetsk Airport, Key Battleground In Ukraine: Hours earlier, Russian forces claimed to have control of the Ukrainian airport.
THE BLOATED FACE OF THE WELFARE STATE: Mother and daughter weigh a total of 43 stone and get £34k a year handouts, but refuse to diet: Janice and Amber Manzur both live off handouts and are so obese they have to use mobility scooters, but they say: ‘We’d rather be fat on benefits than thin and working.’
AT AMAZON, savings and deals in Lawn, Patio & Garden.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW. A Brain-Computer Interface That Works Wirelessly.
PROGRESS: Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police. “Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without evidence that a crime occurred. Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs.”
This is absolutely the right thing to do, and long overdue. However, I kind of wonder if the reason why it’s happening now has more to do with the Obama Administration’s current war with state and local police, something that the Post article touches on obliquely. Kind of like the flipside to the NYPD’s starving the city of revenue by refusing to issue tickets. . . .
Much background here.
ZOOM: Space-ready materials, race-tuned dynamics—meet the most credible Corvette yet. I still don’t like the rear end.
REALITY ASSERTS ITSELF, BUT PROBABLY A BIT LATE: Europe’s Leading Rabbi: Jews Must Begin Carrying Guns. “The European Jewish Association (EJA), which represents Jewish communities across Europe, says that gun license laws must be altered following a string of deadly attacks on Jews in France and other European countries, where anti-Semitism has been growing at an alarming rate.”
LONG-TERM TEST: Subaru WRX.
RON BROWNSTEIN: The Coming College Decline. I’m not convinced that having fewer Americans with college degrees is necessarily calamitous, except for colleges, and Brownstein’s evidence to the contrary is thin.
Perhaps Brownstein should do a little more reading before his next piece. Meanwhile, consider the possibility that big new pushes to offset “college decline” are less about the economy or opportunity, and more like bailouts for an industry that provides the Democrats with the bulk of their donations and volunteers.