THE HILL: Trump decries ‘political correctness’ in post-Orlando address.
The PC use of scare quotes in the headline is a particularly nice touch.
Related: Hillary Evolves, Now Willing to Cite ‘Radical Islam’ as Problem.
As recently as December of 2015, CNN was covering for Hillary with headlines such as “Clinton explains why she won’t say ‘radical Islam.’”
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BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE. College Then and Now: Letter to a Bright Young Woman.
A look at transformations first subtle, then fundamental.
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GREAT MOMENTS IN MSM MISDIRECTION:
It’s comforting to know that America’s newsrooms and television studios are flooded with experts who know ISIS better than ISIS itself:
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HER CAMPAIGN’S OVERNIGHT POLLS MUST HAVE COME IN: “Hillary Clinton changed her tune Monday and referred to the Orlando massacre as a result of ‘radical Islamism,’ a sharp break from President Obama, who has declined to use the term.”
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
—Michael Graham, the Washington Examiner, yesterday.
I thanked him for his candor, for admitting that he favors executing gays, wife-beating, stoning adulteresses, and chopping the hands off of thieves. I could tell, though, that my colleagues from the paper were shocked by what they had heard. American journalists simply aren’t used to hearing Islamic leaders in this country talk like that. And Islamic leaders in this country, I’d wager, are not used to being questioned sharply about their views. It’s also the case that Mr. Elmougy fits no Westerner’s idea of what a radical Muslim looks like. He is smart, well-dressed, professional, and to all appearances, Westernized. You simply don’t expect to be sitting in a fancy steakhouse and to hear a man who looks like the manager of a luxury hotel—which is what he was at the time—advocating medieval tortures. The cognitive dissonance can be overwhelming.
— “Islam, Homosexuality, & Capital Punishment — What do imams and other US Muslim leaders really believe?”, Rod Dreher, of the American Conservative, flashing back to his days with the Dallas Morning News in the post-9/11 period.
Related: Robert Spencer: “FBI ‘never guessed’ gay club would be target of jihad attack.”
MEANWHILE, IN CHICAGO: 3 dead, 17 wounded in shootings citywide.
THE ORLANDO ATTACK IS THE PRICE OF NOT DESTROYING ISIS.
Not to mention giving rise to all of the conditions that created it.
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OBAMA: Orlando shooting was a case of ‘homegrown extremism,’ gunman inspired by online propaganda.
Obama said Monday that it appeared the shooting was a case of “homegrown extremism,” saying that so far investigators have found no connections between the gunman and the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, or any other extremist groups.
“It appears the shooter was inspired by various extremist information that was disseminated over the Internet,” Obama said during remarks in the Oval Office.
An Islamic jihadi inspired by a self-described Caliphate in the Middle East is an example of “homegrown extremism,” because somehow, some way it’s always our fault.
MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS ON ORLANDO: An Untraditional War: We can’t stop ISIL-inspired massacres if we deny we’re fighting Islam’s jihadist strain.
QUESTION ASKED: Is the West about to repeat its mistakes in Libya?
That may depend entirely on whether the Clinton who made the first mistakes wins the White House.
TRUMP ON OBAMA: “We’re led by a man that either is, is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind:”
“And the something else in mind, you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot — they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the ways he acts and can’t even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable.”
Well yes, there is something else going on: David Hazony of The Tower goes inside “The Mind of the President.”
You won’t like what’s inside there, but as I said this morning, it’s must reading.
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AND (OF COURSE) HE BEAT HIS WIFE: When sexual dysfunction and cultural failure meet American freedom… murder is the result, Michael Walsh writes.
WAR ON BOYS: Poverty Hits Boys Hardest.
Most of our society’s discourse on gender inequality in our society is focused on the very top: The fact that men outnumber women in elite boardrooms, law firms, and college faculty lounges. But at the middle and bottom of society, the gender inequality vectors look very different, with boys on the losing end. From the abstract of a new NBER paper:
Relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high-school completions. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families.
The authors offer two explanations for why social disadvantage seems to harm boys more than their sisters. First, it may be that “parental investments in boys versus girls differ systematically according to family disadvantage.” For example, children born into low-income families are more likely to be raised without fathers, and the absence of a male role model might be especially harmful to boys’ development.
The second explanation is that “low quality schools are particularly disadvantageous for boys.” It may be that while girls are academically independent and self-directed, boys’ well-being depends more on having strong outside support structures.The results of the study remind us that some of our 20th century styles of thinking about gender and privilege are in need of an update.
Yes. Like most “progressive” thought, thinking about gender is stuck in the world of two generations ago. Maybe three.
“I’M A GAY ACTIVIST, AND AFTER ORLANDO, I HAVE SWITCHED MY VOTE TO TRUMP.”
Read the whole thing.
Earlier: Gay Latino Trump Supporter Assaulted in San Jose Speaks Out.
WILLIAM SALETAN: Trump’s Response to Orlando Is Exactly What ISIS Wants.
Actually, what ISIS seems to want is a lot of dead, gay Westerners.
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