Unabashedly Unhyphenated: Race-Based Hate Update
Unabashedly Unhyphenated is monitoring efforts to "dismantl[e] Whiteness Ideology and Practice" by a group that presumably has white members. P.S. Anybody know what "color-on-color whiteness" is? This group seeks to "dismantle structures and relationships that perpetuate" it. Google has no links to the phrase, save the one to the group ...
Rabbi Eric Yoffie Rebuts Himself
According to the AP, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, has given a speech attacking conservatives of all faiths, calling them "zealots" and "bigoted," and then saying "there is no excuse for hateful rhetoric." Rabbi Yoffie rebutted himself rather well, but Jeremiah Stoddard's two paragraphs are ...
Maureen Dowd’s Bombshell Book Cover
The cover of Maureen Dowd's new book, "Are Men Necessary," is getting rave reviews. The Media Mob has the backstory ...
Washington Post Internal Message Boards Buzz on Woodward
Washington Post reporters critique each other and muse on their supposedly confidential in-house bulletin board online about Bob Woodward, confidentiality rules and how much fun it isn't to be in the newspaper when one doesn't want to be, courtesy of the FishBowlDC blog ...
New on Blogroll
Recent additions to the blogroll: Just Barely Inside the Beltway SpeckBlog FaithMouse Camp Katrina Dr. Hartline Unabashedly Unhyphenated PC540Plus, Who Moved My Truth has a beautiful new design, and a new address. If you have this blog on your blogroll and I don't have yours, drop me a note. It ...
Ohio Family Finds It Paid Taxes for Nothing
By way of The True Stella Awards comes news of this story of an Ohio family that is being sued by a local school district. The family home, you see, sat in two school districts. As the Cincinnati Enquirer reports: While building their Forest Pine Drive home in 1993, [the ...
Not Sure What Husband Will Say
Apropos of the Texas town that changed its name to DISH in exchange for ten years of free satellite television service, I have just renamed our children. For the next ten years, they shall be known as Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Liz Claiborne. I myself shall be known as ...
Congratulations to Peter Kirsanow
Congratulations to Peter Kirsanow, who has been nominated by President Bush to the National Labor Relations Board ...
Senate on Pensions: Do As We Say, Not As We Do
In an article by Albert Crenshaw, "Senate Passes Bill to Require Full Funding of Private Pensions," the Washington Post reports Thursday: The Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a bill to strengthen the nation's private pension system by requiring employers to pay higher premiums to the government's pension insurance agency and toughening ...
Project 21: High Home Heating Bills Disproportionately Harm Minority Households
Project 21 members are speaking out on the topic of oil drilling and energy independence: Black Activists Support Increased Domestic Oil Exploration High Home Heating Bills Disproportionately Harm Minority Households Citing the need for America to achieve energy independence as well as aid poor and minority households already suffering from ...
CO2 Science: Glaciers Melting? Not These Glaciers
Lies! Lies! These must be lies! Global warming theory advocates say all the glaciers are melting, but this group says it's just not so. Two quotes follow from the document "Not All Glaciers Lost Mass Over the Past Quarter-Century," published by the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and ...
On the Dean Koontz “Japanese Racism” Controversy
Good grief. In reference to the author Dean Koontz Japanese racism brouhaha, it is being said that referring to the Bataan Death March and World War II to a Japanese executive is akin to mentioning slavery to a black person or the Holocaust to a Jew. Get a clue! Black ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Support Increased Domestic Oil Exploration
Good grief. In reference to the author Dean Koontz Japanese racism brouhaha, it is being said that referring to the Bataan Death March and World War II to a Japanese executive is akin to mentioning slavery to a black person or the Holocaust to a Jew. Get a clue! Black ...
Quick, Congressman, What Does A-N-W-R Stand For?
Hugh Hewitt reports difficulty in getting Republican Congressmen who oppose ANWR drilling to appear on his radio show to explain their position. Gee, do you suppose some of these Congressmen are turning him down because they don't know much about ANWR... Nah! That would be like saying Congressmen introduce bills ...
Cut Spending, Reform Entitlements Now: Category 6 Fiscal Hurricane Coming
A scary article by Richard Wolf in USA Today says, in part: From the political left and right, budget watchdogs are warning of fiscal trouble:* Douglas Holtz-Eakin, director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, dispassionately arms 535 members of Congress with his agency's stark projections. Barring action, he admits to ...
Just Barely Inside the Beltway: The Ambiguous Postal Rate Hike of 2006
Maybe Congress is planning to tell the Postal Service to build a few bridges in Alaska. Nice of them to make the 37-cent Ronald Reagan postage stamp obsolete so soon. It didn't even get a full year ...
Tony Blankley: The Stench of Defeatism
Tony Blankley is in fire. Topic is the Senate and Iraq. An excerpt: Monday, for the first time, the foul odor of the Vietnam War denouement wafted through the Senate chamber during the debate on Iraq. The Democrats called for "estimated dates for the phased redeployment of United States Armed ...
Weenie Hugo Chavez Whines Again
The news in this BBC story strikes me as a big deal: Mexico and Venezuela have recalled their ambassadors amid a diplomatic spat between the two countries. Mexican President Vicente Fox announced the move minutes after Venezuela said it was ordering home its envoy.Venezuela's Hugo Chavez refused to bow to ...
Maxine Waters Has It Right
From the November 15 Wall Street Journal: Post-Kelo, conservatives made the case that the Supreme Court's ruling was a dangerous interpretation of the Constitution's takings clause. Now some liberals are catching on. "We don't need you on this one," said California Congressman Maxine Waters in response to critics who argued ...
Men Are More than Sex Objects, Maureen
Based on this transcript excerpt published on the Political Teen blog, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times appears to be spending a lot of time thinking about George Bush's and Donald Rumsfeld's bodies ...
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