As someone who has watched a lot of ice hockey on television, I’m accustomed to having to sit through occasional anti-American rants from Canadian broadcasters. But the latest broadside against Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas, one authored by Canadian sportscaster Dave Hodge, has to take some sort of prize for bald idiocy. (more)
By now, we should all know that the things we say or do on the Internet can come back to haunt us. Your online guide to cannabis cultivation can be a tricky conversation topic during a job interview. That scandalous photo from college can make its way to the horrified eyes of your parents. But would you ever imagine that complaining on Facebook about a comment you thought was racist could get you expelled from graduate school? (more)
When the insufferable and dimwitted Juan Williams attempted to use the race card against Newt Gingrich during Monday night’s South Carolina Republican debate, Newt microwaved him. Gingrich said that there was nothing racially insensitive about wanting poor blacks to get jobs when they are young. It became an instantly iconic moment, a long-overdue pushback to mau-mauing liberals whose sharpest weapon is white guilt. (more)
Barney Frank recently compared the GOP presidential candidates to “Wizard of Oz” characters. It got me thinking about how the education establishment might accommodate the analogy. (more)
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For decades the liberals in the Democrat Party have treated women and minorities as property. Politically speaking, blacks, women, gays, Hispanics and Jews were owned by them. (more)
Once again, no good deed goes unpunished. Millions of us in the tea party movement, for trying to head off a fiscal collapse that would hurt minorities and the poor worse than anyone, are called racists for our trouble. Come on, people, what’s that about? (more)
Remember the controversy over that conservative congressman’s remark that any toddler who isn’t in school will likely end up in jail? Remember the liberal acrimony over this obviously racist insinuation that black kids can either shape up or be shipped off to prison? (more)
A federal agency has agreed to pay out on a preposterous discrimination claim. The settlement will cost taxpayers “only” $62 million, but it displays, once again, the Obama administration’s partiality to bogus legal theories and its willingness to use taxpayer money to pander to left-wing advocacy organizations. This pre-election payoff deserves serious scrutiny. (more)
Barack Obama is a Half-Breed Mongrel. But I mean that in a good way. (more)
It happened on February 20, 2010. After a hard-fought national battle, funded by one of the world’s biggest advertisers, a unique tournament entered its finale with only 12 teams out of 92 left standing. It was the national championships for “step,” a dance art form practiced almost exclusively by African-Americans. One team, literally formed in the spirit of racial unity, was the underdog entering the finals. “A lot of people don’t want us to be there, and they definitely don’t want us to succeed,” said one member of the long-shot squad. But to the astonishment of many, as the underdogs started their final dance, the crowd erupted in unambiguous approval. As Randy Jackson would say, this team was in it to win it. By the end of their performance, little could be heard through the chaotic cheers in the crowd. “Whoa! Wow,” said the event moderator. “Close your mouth. Close your mouth,” he called out to the front-row onlookers, making fun of their astonishment. (more)
Umbrage Alert–KF Pisses Off the Right: My second conversation on Ricochet with David Limbaugh is up. Toward the end I attempt to extricate myself from under the negative reaction to comments I made in Episode #1 about guns, conservatives and racism. I suspect I dug myself in deeper. … P.S.: I think you have to be a Ricochet subscriber to listen (it’s cheap). But you don’t have to pay to read the outraged comments from the “members.” I may have lost the members. (more)
1. If we’re paying $15,000 per student and there are 20 kids per classroom, that generates $300,000 for the school per year. If they’re only paying the teacher $50,000 where is the other $250,000 going? (more)
Press coverage of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., usually focuses on her megalomania (“‘I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen,’ Jackson-Lee once said”), her race-baiting (like claiming the Tea Party is an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina was racist), and her amazing ignorance (like not knowing that astronauts landed on the Moon, not Mars; and not knowing what happened in the Vietnam War). (more)
As he began his second year in office, Obama’s presidency was not going well. His legislation to overhaul the healthcare system was still bogged down in Congress. The unemployment rate, which polls showed was the top concern of most Americans, remained stubbornly high at about 10 percent, and much worse in many African-American communities. Obama’s job-approval ratings had dropped markedly from the astronomical levels of his first few months to below 50 percent. (more)
The woman stepped off Hadda Street into a pair of courier offices in Yemen’s capital. In FedEx and UPS storefronts tucked along shopping centers and travel agencies in San’a, she mailed two Hewlett-Packard printers to the United States. (more)
Some races are still too close to call. Here’s The Daily Caller’s rundown of the 3 messiest races: (more)
Democratic candidates in California have extended their leads over Republican challengers in the races for Senate and the governor’s mansion, a new Fox News poll shows. (more)
ABC’s Michael Falcone reports: (more)
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A black judge from western Pennsylvania rejected a plea agreement for a man accused of fighting with police during a traffic stop, saying it was “a ridiculous plea that only goes to white boys.” (more)
