ShalomToronto: A strapping six footer, with dark unruly hair that is just starting to gray, Meir looks far younger than 57. When I ask if he … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2014
Steve Sailer: The Liberal Creationists
Steve Sailer writes: The inability of a first-rate reporter like Wade, ensconced in the seeming bully pulpit of the New York Times, to make much of an impact makes for a fascinating case study of the … [Read more...]
10 Haunting Unsolved Mass Murders
ListVerse: Around 2:00 in the afternoon on September 20, 1911, in Colorado Springs, the bodies of Alice May Burnham, her six-year-old daughter, and her three-year-old son were found dead in their beds. … [Read more...]
‘The Speech That Cost Nearly a Billion Dollars’
TodayIFoundOut: Though the speech was going well for a while, the fateful moment came when a person in attendance innocently asked Ratner how his company was able to afford to sell … [Read more...]
‘What Exactly Did Cliven Bundy Say That A) Was Wrong; B) Paul Ryan Didn’t Already Say?’
Must read: ‘A Critique Of Piketty’s Solution To Widening Wealth Inequality’
Long but worth it: Piketty's solution to widening inequality is a global wealth tax, a solution he characterizes as utopian, for getting the world's nations to eradicate tax … [Read more...]
Peter Singh: Sikh Elvis Impersonator
Mark Steyn: ‘Oprah says Magic wants the team…’
...and, if Oprah says it, it's probably going to happen. So let's see: Donald Sterling's mistress takes Magic Johnson to a Clippers game. And, in the course of complaining about her swanning around with Magic … [Read more...]
Remembering how the English literary ‘community’ split during the Rushdie fatwa
I remember it well. The fact is, many fancy white authors were jealous of Rushdie's somewhat precocious success, and his lack of humility about it. Writers … [Read more...]
Watching the Left turn pro-blacklist
Ed Driscoll has two juicy round ups on the topic of free speech:
- A link to a must-read "instant classic" for free speech absolutists called "More Than the Minimum" by Vikram … [Read more...]
Author of ‘Stealing All Transmissions: The Secret History of The Clash’ is asking for band photos, posters
I enjoyed this slender book, which is also, incidentally, a neat … [Read more...]
‘It’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’ month –- time for double helpings of Steinbeck’s corn-pone Marxism’
Charlotte Allen is so right, although it's still kind of nice to look back on the days when white people … [Read more...]