The Times’s Blind Side
Somewhat to my surprise, it turns out that I saw seven of the 10 films nominated for the “Best Picture” Oscar. I loved two of the seven: “The Blind Side,” which I wrote about here the weekend it opened, and “The Hurt Locker,” which we recruited Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Stephen Hunter to write about [...]
3 U.S. Troops Killed In Southern Afghanistan
Three U.S. service members were killed Monday in fighting in southern Afghanistan, underscoring the unrelenting violence in the Taliban heartland as the Obama administration steps up efforts to rout the insurgents.
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More Liberal Violence
We are beginning to see way too many echoes of the 1930s, as national socialist and Marxian socialist thugs try to drive competing political views off the streets. The worst offenders so far have been the Service Employees’ International Union, which has repeatedly sent its members out into the streets to beat up anyone [...]
Dictatorships and double standards, part 2
Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación Y) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue:
Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban blogger who blogs about Castro’s island hellhole from inside Cuba, using her own name, has been beaten [...]
Liberal Reign of Terror Continues!
Well, okay, it doesn’t quite qualify as a reign of terror, but it is a striking fact that every incident of violence at a health care protest has been committed by a liberal supporter of government medicine. This time it’s a guy from MoveOn.org who bit off the finger of a 65-year-old man. [...]
On Race and Class In Harvard Square
As William A. Jacobson suggests at legal’in’sur’rec’tion, this confrontation appears to be less about race, and more about class.
After all, we are indeed talking about a “supremely educated” and elitist Harvard Professor (with a racist-oriented chip on his shoulder) versus an “educated but non-academic police sergeant.”
From Mark Krikorian at the corner comes this [...]
