Category Archives: The Culture

Uncommon sense

J.D., otherwise known as the Mouth of the Brazos (which is a river in Texas for those who don’t Google), has a good question which leads me to an uncomfortable conclusion.

The background: Fox News is, by all accounts, the No. 1 electronic news source, and they cover all of the Democrat scandals all the time. Thus J.D.’s question:

“If they are the most widely watched by the huge measures everyone claims, how are they then not the ‘main stream media?’ And with this many folks knowing what is ‘really’ happening, why the [%#&] isn’t something more effective being done?”

My uncomfortable conclusion: The majority have increasingly little influence in this supposedly free, democratic country.

If we’re missing something here, what is it?

I-35 to serfdom

Wormtongue, not content with destroying more jobs by restricting the use of coal, oil and natural gas in order to fight the Democrat myth of global warming, is concocting new regulations to force interstate highway drivers to pay federal tolls.

Dislike taking off your shoes and being pawed at airports? Now you can queue up at toll booths every dozen miles or so. Or let the feds install a tracking device on your car so they know who paid and who didn’t, where they went and when.

The fabled land of liberty is going, going gone. As Instapundit says, we’re on the road to serfdom. Indeed, the interstate highway to serfdom.

Public school politics

I was amazed when Mr. B.’s first grade Austin teacher back in 2006 launched into a week-long lesson on the dangers of global warming. He was already so frightened of cigarettes, thanks to the school system, that he wouldn’t get in the car until I hid my pack of Salems in the glove box.

So this report of a California (where else) public school requiring eighth graders to write essays questioning whether the Holocaust (the systematic, in fact industrialized, Nazi murder of six million Jews and millions of others) was an “actual event” is not a surprise.

Nor is the name of the school superintendent: Mohammed Z. Islam. Fortunately some adult complained and the essays are no longer required. We can thank Gen., later President, Eisenhower for what we know of the Holocaust. He saw the future clearly.

Pity the public schools everywhere couldn’t be cleansed of these political creatures who call themselves educators.

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Rule 5: Ashley Graham

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Chess pieces making their own moves

It’s pathetic the way Lefties and their pet news media hammer Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas whenever he dares speak his mind in public. Not to mention Condi Rice being booted from a campus “civil rights” event.

Pity they don’t have the wit or the decency to scrutinize gasbags Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the other race hustlers whose tired propaganda the media assaults us with daily.

Thomas’s and Rice’s fates are very similar, of course, to the way the academy silences any black of any nationality who has dared stray from the Leftist plantation. What are these people so afraid of?

Via Miriam’s Ideas (from whom I got the idea for the headline) and Planck’s Constant.

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Rule 5: London Andrews

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Bashing the white Duke Lacrosse players again

The Leftist race hustlers never give up. Shoot down their phony case and, lo and behold, they wait you out and then pop back up to try it from another angle. Or repeat the same one like their news media cronies did with Trayvon Martin, running his baby-faced picture over and over again instead of his gold-grill thug mug. Even after the discrepancy became common knowledge.

Comes now a book dedicated (in the words of ace WaPo crime blogger Radley Balko) to rehabilitating the disbarred and disgraced district attorney who prosecuted the white Duke Lacrosse players for their alleged gang rape of a black female stripper who couldn’t get her story straight. William Cohan’s “The Price of Silence” has gotten the usual hurrahs from the Democrat news media and their Web buds like the Puffington Host. 

While over at Amazon, the readers and potential readers have much longer memories and they’re taking no prisoners. Out of 52 reviews so far, 41 have given it one star, the lowest possible rank. However, I see that only six reviews are from verified purchasers (four liked it, two hated it), and two are Amazon “Vine Voices” meaning they got it free from Amazon (one hated it, the other liked it).

It’s probable that at least a few of the others got the book free from the publisher or the author, or even thumbed through it at a (gasp) book store, but it looks to me like most of the reviewers (most of them negative) are just piling on in the way Amazon political lurkers sometimes do, especially when they haven’t read the book in question. Amazon doesn’t require it in order to write a “review.”

At least one of the verified purchasers, who hated the book, is a blogger who does a fine job of explaining his position. All of which leads me to conclude how refreshing it is to see, once again, that the gatekeepers of old (cBS’s Dan Rather, anyone?) no longer control the gate. Especially when the issue is one more labored assault on white men by the race hustlers.

Via  Fragments From A Writing Desk.