Lori Gottlieb has written what can only be described as a soul-baring essay about her regrets over never having married. Highly recommended reading, though many "liberated" women may have a difficult time acknowledging what Gottlieb has to say about her own misspent 20s and 30s. Of course, we’d be loath to admit it in this…
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The Myth of Biofuels
Two new studies clearly identify the major problem with biofuels, which is that they do more harm than good. Elizabeth Rosenthal wrote the following in an interesting – and long-overdue – article for the NY Times: Almost all biofuels used today cause more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full emissions costs of…
Saudi Thought Police Bust Mom in Starbucks
The 7th century geniuses who brought us jihad are still hard at work, this time making the world safe for male Muslim coffee drinkers: A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a…
Sharia "Inevitable" in Britain
Hot on the heels of Britain’s Department for Work and Pensions allowing extra benefits for polygamists comes this pronouncement from the Archbishop of Canterbury: Dr Rowan Williams told Radio 4’s World at One that the UK has to "face up to the fact" that some of its citizens do not relate to the British legal…
No Stimulus From Senate
Senate Republicans held together, mostly, to stop the Democrats’ stimulus package from passing, according to the NY Times: The measure was opposed by Republican leaders who said the Democrats added too many costly provisions, including an extension of unemployment benefits, tax credits for the coal industry and increased subsidies for home energy costs. The total…
Hillary the Bully, Again
David Brooks writes about the history of Mrs. Clinton’s heavy-handed tactics in the NY Times. In 1993, Jim Cooper, a Congressman from Tennessee, had proposed a health care reform plan as a more bipartisan alternative to HillaryCare. Her response: But unlike the plan Hillary Clinton came up with then, the Cooper plan did not include…
Independent Voters Nixed in California?
ABC reported live that some voters who were legitimately registered as independent were denied the right to vote at Burbank’s city hall. Glitches have to be expected; however, this is a fairly basic error that shouldn’t be made, especially at an official government location. How does something like this happen? Well, in Texas temporary workers…
First Blood to Huckabee
Mike Huckabee has won the first delegates of Super Tuesday, taking all 18 from the state of West Virginia, albeit with a little help from John McCain. Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at West Virginia’s state GOP convention. Huckabee bested Mitt Romney, who…
Double Your Pleasure…
…by marrying multiple women and helping to destroy Britain by increasing the strain that you and yours put on the infidel nation’s already burgeoning welfare state! It sounds ridiculous – heck, it is ridiculous! – but the new guidelines issued by the Department for Work and Pensions read thusly: "Where there is a valid polygamous…
Turks Protest Against Headscarves
A huge crowd – over 100,000 people – assembled in An?tkabir, Turkey over the weekend to protest the Erdogan government’s plan to lift the ban on Muslim headscarves, as well they should. Michael wrote about this issuea couple of months back, wondering, "…what about female students who refuse to wear a headscarf? Will they be…