A Righteous Invasion

The current surge of Central American children and mothers across the border has made a travesty of the schmaltzy arguments long employed to rationalize the government's winking ...

Somaly Mam

Lying Whores or Whoring Lies?

Blogger Kate McMillan quips that "€œprostitution is to "€˜sex work"€™ what cigarette smoking is to "€˜lung exercise."€™"€ "€œProgressives"€ don"€™t just ...

Marius

Bile in the Blogosphere

Nothing is important or unimportant, but thinking makes it so. Nevertheless, other people's priorities infuriate us: We think them fools for worrying over trifles, while they ...

Odin

Santa Claus: Still White

Although Santa Claus doesn"€™t exist, I am nevertheless convinced that he is white. I take it as a matter of faith that he is as white as his beard and as white as the polar ice ...

OK, Let’s NOT Kill Everyone in China

Last Saturday, hundreds of humorless Asians, their eyes slanted with fury, gathered outside ABC studios in LA to protest talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s alleged advocacy of ...

Kanye West

The Counterfeit Confederate

Being a crotchety old white racist and all, I don’t mind admitting that I thought Kanye West and Jay-Z were the same person until a week ago. It doesn’t help that ...

Nina Davuluri

The Myth America Pageant

Last week, America was allegedly aghast over the first Indian Miss America. TIME said the pageant had become “Marred by Racist Slurs.” Huffington Post described a ...

President Barack Obama

Shut It Down, Mr. President

Trayvon Martin was an unarmed teenager walking home from a convenience store with Skittles and iced tea, when he was shot to death by a racist, profiling wannabe cop named George ...

Don”€™t Tug on Lucifer’s Cape

In his first letter to "€œGod's elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces,"€ the apostle (then Pope, later Saint) Peter warned his flock: [Y]our adversary the ...

Paula Deen

The Spit-Roasting of Paula Deen

Deep-battered and Southern-fried celebrity chef Paula Deen is crying tears made of butter after admitting in a court deposition that a long, long time ago she said the word ...

Brooke Astor

A Sad Estate of Affairs

Today at 2:30PM, philanthropist Brooke Astor’s son Tony Marshall is expected to be sentenced to one to three years for...uh, I can’t seem to get a straight answer on ...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Thanks to the UK Guardian, everyone now knows the NSA is spying on US citizens. Our reptilian Congress critters are wondering what the big deal is, since they’ve been ...

Frequently Asked Questions about the Jason Richwine Brouhaha

The social sciences are supposed to help us make better decisions about the future, not to slather us in ...

Jason Richwine

The Bitter Taste of Richwine

Spring is in the air, which means that it’s time for another insane moral panic regarding the Great Egalitarian Unmentionable: The idea that true diversity of the cognitive ...

Kamala Harris

Obama Compliments a Woman, Draws Fire

For the first time since Ronald Reagan flew via helicopter off into history in January 1989, I have felt enthusiastic about a US president. To my tremendous"€”and ...

Why Cyprus Matters

Cyprus is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Turkey and Syria. On a map it seems to belong more in the Middle East than Europe, but for a host of historical ...


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