One of the best recent articles on a subject most won’t touch.
Being White in Philly: Whites, race, class, and the things that never get said.
—Robert Huber, Philadelphia Magazine
While out on bail for a child pornography charge—and having removed a court ordered location tracking device—a monster in NY carjacked a woman and her 10-year-old daughter. He killed the mother and raped the girl, who somehow managed to escape afterward.
The answer from the Left? Whistles. Call boxes. Puke or pee on him. Don’t worry…the police will protect you.
The truth is that the real war on women is waged by the Left. Liberals don’t give a rat’s tail end about women’s safety.
Conservatives, on the other hand, want you armed, trained, and carrying concealed everywhere you go because we value your life and your daughter’s innocence.
The libs who run states like NY, IL, and CA? They don’t. Wise up.
If you let the desire for gratification pass, it will pass. And you’ll be the better for it. Problem is, somewhere along the way…our country forgot this rule. Hard work became secondary to hard-ons, and feeling good trumped doing good. What we have now is a growing belief that the self’s satisfaction is the most important thing in the world—even if the things you choose to fill that need…just don’t work.
—Greg Gutfeld, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths
In the WSJ, James Taranto has an incisive analysis of a new study (done by a moderate-to-left-leaning think tank and published in that bastion of conservatism—the NY Times) which shows that when a home is run by a single mom, boys suffer more—educationally and economically—than girls. Taranto makes a number of salient points, but what caught my attention was this thought experiment:
But of course it isn’t. To illuminate why, try a thought experiment: Think about the family as a “business” partnership whose “product” is the next generation.
One reason a business has hierarchies of authority and responsibility is to make the best use of the time of the most vital employees. The CEO may type faster or more accurately than his secretary, but he still delegates the typing because it isn’t the highest use of his time. By contrast, the lone entrepreneur may of necessity do his own clerical work, but at some point he won’t be able to expand further without hiring support staff.
Think of the single mother as the lone entrepreneur. Of necessity she takes on every responsibility of the household: bearing and nurturing the children, providing food, maintaining the physical plant—and, by the way, working outside the home in order to raise operating funds.
Now think of the traditional 1950s household with an employed father and a stay-at-home mother. The mother is able to devote her full efforts to the children and the home. The father may have some secondary household duties—taking out the trash and playing ball with Junior—but most of his time is spent away from home, doing a boss’s bidding, in order to raise money to meet the family’s needs.
Let’s stipulate that in the latter scenario, the mother could do the father’s job just as well as he can. Would that be the highest use of her time? Only if one thinks that office work is intrinsically superior to the development of the next generation. [Emphasis mine.]
I, for one, believe the latter is far more important, and deserves the full attention of a parent.
Michelle Malkin Penny Pritzker: A Chicago Fat Cat for Commerce Secretary?
The corruption never stops.
Thomas Sowell Intellectuals and Race: Part IV
The consequences conservatives predicted re ObamaCare are playing out:
Kurt Schlichter Conservatives Must Build a ‘Bite Me’ Coalition
Ken Connor Discounting Parents’ Rights
Keith Ablow Moore’s flawed rationale means his photo would motivate public against obesity
Our schools are run by zero-thought liberals, which is why we have…
John Stossel The education ‘blob’ that’s crushing our kids
Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Race
A long but very worthwhile read.
Walter E. Williams Educational Rot
Fox (local) Marine with concealed carry permit stops man from beating woman
The Left would rather have allowed the beating to go on until police arrived…eventually.
Chicago Tribune Prosecutor: Man killed because of the way he wore his hat
Liberals will blame the gun…ignoring the fact that this perp is a repeat offender who should never have been released from jail.
WSJ The Ethanol Gas-Pump Surcharge: A 2007 mandate is needlessly raising U.S. gasoline prices.
And increasing the cost of corn, beef,…
Michelle Malkin Obamacare regs: The paper skyscraper
Are tens of thousands of new regs needed to improve healthcare? It’s impossible to know if you’re in compliance when the law is hopelessly complex.
Breitbart Gabby Giffords’s Husband Buys AR-15
He’s either an incredible variety of stupid or the worst hypocrite in the ongoing debate over guns in America.
Bjorn Lomborg Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret: Producing and charging electric cars means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions.
An important read from a liberal who believes “climate change” is man-made.
Judge Andrew Napolitano The Right to Self-Defense
Kimberley A. Strassel Jumping the Sequester: When the president canceled White House tours, he revealed his claims as ludicrous.
Mike Shedlock Mish’s Complete Look at Employment Numbers
Frank Turek gives one of the better brief defenses of maintaining the traditional definition of marriage:
Thomas Sowell:
ABC Student suspended for shaping Pop-Tart into gun
Far too many of our schools are run by morons.
Gateway Pundit Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
Please explain to me why DHS needs 2700 light tanks. You know they’re not using them to protect our borders.
PJ Media Arrogant CO Dem Scolds Rape Survivor At Gun Ban Hearing: Statistics Weren’t On Your Side
And I’m told the war on women is being waged by the Right. Ladies, conservatives think you’re smart enough, responsible enough, and valuable enough to defend yourselves with the best available tools.
Jonah Goldberg Obamacare’s Predictable Problems: Reality isn’t playing out according to the media script.
James Taranto Man of Straw—The latest excuse for Obama: Basic political competence is a superhuman power.
Denver Post Colorado parents of transgender 1st-grader file complaint over restroom ban
Still think “gay rights” is just about “equality” for gays? It’s not. It’s about the obliteration of common sense norms. News flash: if it has a penis, it’s a boy.
Thomas Sowell Shepherds and Sheep
Dennis Prager Environmentalism and Human Sacrifice
Doug Giles Christian Parents Should Have Their Kids Play with Toy Guns
Victor Davis Hanson American Recessional: Declining U.S. influence may be inevitable, but the world won’t be better off.
WSJ Head Start for All: Universal preschool and a government that won’t admit failure.
Joel Kotkin@WSJ America’s Red State Growth Corridors: Low-tax, energy-rich regions in the heartland charge ahead as economies on both coasts sing the blues.
The idea of a minor decrease in the amount of increase in government spending causing end-times is laughable to everyone who has more IQ points than teeth.