Are some people so insecure in their identity and so desperate to be offended that they have breathed new life into H. L. Mencken’s definition of Puritanism, Jonah Goldberg puts forth to readers at NRO. By now, you most likely have been over-enlightened on the massive culturally inappropriate gall from a white Utah school student. […]
Out of Work? No Problem. Trim Hedges for Uncle Sam
In case you haven’t read, Bernie Sanders is proposing jobs for anyone out of work. That’s right, if you are a displaced factory worker, for example, Bernie wants you to make $15 an hour cleaning up park trails for your municipal government, writes Scott Shackford in Reason. What, you say, that sounds like something an […]
How Barbara Bush Brought Down the House at Wellesley College
What in the world, demanded 150 “outraged” Wellesley students, could Barbara Bush have to say in a commencement speech at the prestigious woman’s college? The year was 1990. Barbara Bush, about to turn 65, had ridden to prominence on the coattails of her husband rather than on her own merit, the enlightened students intimated. As […]
Could Jair Bolsonaro Bring the Second Amendment to Brazil?
Brazilians have had enough of armed criminals. Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is promising Brazilians the chance to defend themselves. He’s been called the Brazilian Trump, but Bolsonaro appears to be much more of an ideologue than America’s president. Bloomberg reports: In the world’s most murderous country, gun control is starting to lose its appeal. Desperate Brazilians […]
Everybody Knew, Nobody Did Anything
“This kid exhibited every single known red flag, from killing animals to having a cache of weapons to disruptive behavior to saying he wanted to be a school shooter. If this isn’t a person who should have gotten someone’s attention, I don’t know who is. This was a multi-system failure, “ stressed Howard Finkelstein the […]
Laura Ingraham Blasts Back at LeBron James
In what is now becoming an ongoing feud between the conservative TV host and the NBA basketball player, Laura Ingraham blasts back at LeBron James. Originally posted on Yoursurvivalguy.com.
Norman Mailer’s Small-Scale Communities
David Masciotra explains the ideas novelist Norma Mailer thought would save New York City. Writing in The American Conservative, Masciotra details Mailer’s focus on how the city had changed from his boyhood to his adulthood. Mailer thought small-scale community was the best way to organize the politics and operations of the boroughs. Masciotra writes (abridged): […]
“Thank God My Granddaddy Got on that Boat”
With his customary cheekiness, Muhammad Ali responded to the reporter inquiring about his thoughts on Africa after his Rumble in the Jungle boxing match. It was 1974. Ali had just returned to the U.S. from Zaire, where he had beaten the previously undefeated world heavyweight-champ George Foreman. It was not for nothing that Ali thanked […]
A Forgotten Version of Conservatism
At The American Conservative, Addison Del Mastro discusses Vance Packard, a journalist and author who Del Mastro says that though considered liberal in his time, fits well with the ideals of today’s conservatives. Del Mastro writes: Vance Packard is not a name that comes to mind when you think of mid-century conservatives. Certainly, you won’t […]
Bill Clinton’s Shamelessness
If President Clinton had done the decent thing, he would have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky scandal and taken his shame on his own back. Instead, he defiantly brazened it out and made the country complicit in his classic harassment, assault, abuse of power, and perjury. How did Democrats handle their president having an affair […]
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