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racism
Dr. Laura pulls a Helen Thomas
Sounds like “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger pulled a Helen Thomas on her radio show yesterday. She used the “N word” at least 10 times on the air while talking to a black woman who had called for advice. She belittled the woman for being too sensitive about her white husband’s friends making racist remarks in her … Continue reading
The Sherrod debacle
The Shirley Sherrod case is a tragic example of how nasty our nation’s politics have become. A woman loses her job because some commentator wants to make a point about racism and does so with a piece of very selectively edited video. It was a hatchet chop, pure and simple. The truth has come out; … Continue reading
Summer news snooze
The Mosque at Ground Zero The “mosque at Ground Zero” isn’t. It isn’t a mosque and it isn’t at Ground Zero. Or at least that’s what I’ve heard. Whether it’s a mosque or a Muslim cultural center or whatever, a map in one report clearly showed the proposed structure is three blocks from Ground Zero. … Continue reading
Much ado about Arizona
Arizona is getting a lot of negative publicity these days, mostly because of their recently passed anti–illegal immigration law (SB 1070 and amendment). I’ve no problem with that law and see it as little different from typical seat-belt laws — you don’t get busted for not wearing your seat belt unless you are stopped first … Continue reading
We are not Borg
Yesterday I heard a really troubling update on that story about the California students who were sent home for wearing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. I first wrote about it in “Tail starting to wag the dog in U.S.“ For starters, the principal who sent the kids home has admitted that doing so was … Continue reading
Speaking the unspeakable
The media try and for the most part succeed in not mentioning it. The politicians in Washington can’t afford to say it, even if they think it. And most Americans, if asked, probably wouldn’t admit it publicly. So I’ll throw it out here and see if it flies: Some, maybe a lot, of the viciousness … Continue reading
PC silliness
Just a little addendum to my sunflower post a few days ago … Trying to identify the smaller thistle-like plant growing beneath the sunflowers, I looked up niger seed, a fine, black bird seed I’d always thought was from a thistle. As it turns out, the seed is not from a thistle. It’s not even … Continue reading
Obama himself ‘acted stupidly’
President Obama put his foot in it the other day when asked about the incident with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a black man, and the Cambridge police. Obama acknowledged first that he didn’t know all the facts of the case. And that’s where he should have stopped. But then he went on to … Continue reading
I’m not apologizing for something I didn’t do
Doing the politically correct thing for Juneteenth, the U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously approved a resolution apologizing for slavery. I’ve said in the past that I think talk is cheap, and in this case, it’s even cheaper. The U.S. abolished slavery in 1865. The apology was implicit in the action. The abolition was the public acknowledgment … Continue reading
Congressman Rush clinging to racism
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s appointment of Roland Burris to fill Barack Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat comes as no surprise. I had already assumed his refusal to relinquish his office meant he intended to exercise his power to appoint a new senator. Burris, former Illinois attorney general, reportedly is a decent, honest guy. But he … Continue reading
So it’s come to this already, has it?
The mainstream media are reporting the shooting of the chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party at state party headquarters several hours ago. Shot by a lone gunman, Dem Chairman Bill Gwatney has been hospitalized in critical condition. The gunman was chased more than 20 miles by police before finally being caught. He died later of a gunshot … Continue reading
Most women supported Hillary, so why didn’t I?
Post-primary statistics say 60% of women voters supported Hillary Clinton over her male opponent, Barack Obama. And no one seems to be disputing that feminism was very much at the heart of it. Stats also say a similar percentage of seniors (defined as 65 and older) backed Hillary. So this morning I found myself wondering … Continue reading
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