Joseph Dooley
Life of Julia (Gillard)
The Australian federal election is less than 3 months away, and incumbent prime minister Julia Gillard is taking a page out of Barack Obama’s playbook. She’s conjuring a false narrative that men are the oppressors and women are the oppressed. Her Labor Party already has a majority of women voters, especially single women voters (subbing … Continue reading
Big data
“Knowledge is power.” –Latin aphorism “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” –Lord Acton From the NSA to the IRS to the DHS, big government is collecting a treasure trove of data on us. If history is any indicator, most of that data will not be used to punish political dissidents—at least, not ostensibly. Let me explain. The … Continue reading
Market Value of a Lie
Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News has zero credibility. How could he, after writing this? In 2011, spouting dangerous revisionism, [Michele Bachman] claimed the Founding Fathers, many of whom were slave owners, fought to eradicate slavery: “…the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in the United … Continue reading
Stand in the courthouse door: a hypothetical
Wikipedia summarizes segregationist George Wallace’s infamous stand at the University of Alabama, forbidding black students to enroll: On June 11, [1963] Malone and Hood arrived to register. Wallace, attempting to uphold his promise as well as for political show, blocked the entrance to Foster Auditorium with the media watching. Then, flanked by federal marshals, Deputy … Continue reading
Expendable men
“Looking around the violent parts of the world, it is young men with nothing to lose and fantasies of glory, led by older men who understand them and their needs, who wage the civil wars that tear countries apart.” –George Friedman Next time you read a story about a crime or an accidental death or … Continue reading
Identitarian
I came across this Margaret Thatcher (RIP) quote and thought how quaint it seems in the pick-your-gender era: Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Forget quaint. This could be construed as hateful under the emerging orthodoxy, which doesn’t permit natural or accidental constraints on … Continue reading
Prude and prejudice
“In the ’50s, women didn’t think they were in a war with conservatives; they knew they were in a war only with overeager young men. Those young men usually lost…” –Michael Bresciani What is an “unwanted sexual advance”? Prior to the Herman Cain fiasco 2 years ago, I thought I knew. However, witnessing the media’s … Continue reading
Will the Washington Post apologize?
“Being on the Left means never having to say you’re sorry.” –Dennis Prager Remember when Susan Rice’s name was being floated for the position of Secretary of State last November? Republicans questioned her fitness for the office, due to the lack of judgment she showed in peddling the Obama administration’s false narrative to the American … Continue reading
Aerial roots
Sometimes the best you can do is let others speak for you. Yuval Levin, via National Review: We are all dependent on others. The question is whether we are dependent on people we know, and they on us—in ways that foster family and community, build habits of restraint and dignity, and instill in us responsibility … Continue reading
Enlightenment at CNN
The deadliest arrow in the secularist quiver is a religious man or Bible scholar who muddies the Bible’s moral teachings. He is like the capitalists Lenin praised for selling him the rope from which they will hang. One such man is religion professor Timothy Beal, author of The Rise and Fall of the Bible. In … Continue reading
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