Fareed Zakaria was born into an elite Indian Muslim family and made his way into the global elite via Harvard and Yale. He’s edited Foreign Affairs, Newsweek and Newsweek International; now he’s a host on CNN. As you can imagine, this expertise and background have given him unique insight into the inexplicable horror of the Boston Marathon bombing by two young MuslimContinue reading “People are going to have to think less about themselves and think more about me, Fareed Zakaria…”
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Resourceful Satirical Magazine Finds Americans Not Stereotyping, Ridicules Them For Their Ignorance
Via Steve Sailer, here’s The Onion engaging in accidental self-parody: Majority of Americans Not Informed Enough To Stereotype Chechens The peoples’ calm tolerance goes into the media’s Narrate-o-Matic and voila, out it comes as popular “ignorance.” The average American just can’t win–must be why the elites think he’s such a loser. Of course the realContinue reading “Resourceful Satirical Magazine Finds Americans Not Stereotyping, Ridicules Them For Their Ignorance”
Sympathy for the Devil
So Mr. Santorum has invoked Satan. The pro-Romney Drudge Report is is assaulting this newly identified breach with standard all-cap hysterics and ominous cliff-hanger dramatics (“DEVELOPING…”). We’re all atingle. Send the children to their rooms. Related, Obama is going pre-emptively negative on Romney in Michigan (Santorum’s got to look like Christmas to the White House,Continue reading “Sympathy for the Devil”
Equality, now
The Republican Party’s continuing survival now depends as much on the Democratic Party’s inherent contradictions as anything else. The latter has become less a labor party than a coalition of identity groups united in resentment toward a myth of majority privilege that grows more fabulous and farcical by the day, and–being identity groups–viewing one anotherContinue reading “Equality, now”
Barry Bugs Out
Tom Englehardt nails the true nature of President Obama’s address to cadets at West Point: Certainly, the choice of venue, and so the decision to address a military audience first and other Americans second, not only emphasized the escalatory military path chosen in Afghanistan, but represented a kind of symbolic surrender of civilian authority. RushContinue reading “Barry Bugs Out”
Lone Wolf Tickets
A question. Has anyone yet attempted to leverage yesterday’s tragedy at Fort Hood into a defense of the Patriot Act’s “lone wolf” provision? Maybe the question is not if, but when. I’m thinking of starting a pool.Of course it may not be necessary. Yesterday* the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to extend three provisions: roving wiretaps;Continue reading “Lone Wolf Tickets”
Narrative Blowback
Has the media’s recoiling fascination with the Angry White Mobs of health care reform’s roadshow crippled that effort and stalled the Obama administration? Marshaling evidence to that effect, liberal codger E.J.Dionne, for one, draws the only relevant conclusion: there is no such thing as a “liberal media bias.” In giving the “tea-baggers” all that sneeringContinue reading “Narrative Blowback”
The Business End of Empathy
McClatchy is reporting that liberal advocacy groups are going after the lead plaintiff in the Ricci case, who is expected to be called to testify at this week’s confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee Sonya Sotomayor: On Friday, citing in an e-mail “Frank Ricci’s troubled and litigious work history,” the liberal advocacy group People forContinue reading “The Business End of Empathy”
Voices, Violence and Vocations
Impelled by religious zeal, a man commits an act of terrorist murder, targeting an individual he deems responsible for the slaughter of innocents. The charge follows: through the use of extreme language activist organizations, news outlets–the very opinions and beliefs they espouse–provoked the violence. By implication (or direct inference) these beliefs are discredited not byContinue reading “Voices, Violence and Vocations”
Shill.He.Is
The single most distressing result of Barack Obama’s election is not the looting of your grandchildren’s economic prospects to pay for the new administration’s Great Lurch Forward into insolvency. It isn’t the accompanying loss of liberty. Nor is it the mass decampment of “anti-war” leftists now silent or openly supporting the escalation of the warContinue reading “Shill.He.Is”
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