Germany has a serious population problem. This year marks its lowest production of babies ever, and previous years were already particularly infertile. Pundits warn that Germany will soon start to reap the bitter consequences of its demographic suicide. But at least Germans are having “satisfying” sexual experiences: Germany is the 11th most sexually satisfied country […]
Continue reading →Yesterday, I wrote an article about a deceptive shift of language from “income inequality” to “income inequity.” In it, I quoted Barack Obama, who recently claimed that hedge fund investors were the “nation’s lottery winners.” I think his dismissive assessment deserves another look, since it represents the attitude so many Americans have toward the wealthy. […]
Continue reading →What is it with liberal hypocrisy? Are they immune from seeing it, or what? I mean, sure, conservatives regularly live lives contrary to their stated ideals, but they at least have the modicum of shame necessary to try to hide their duplicity. Liberals? It’s like they don’t even see it. Another case in point: George […]
Continue reading →The Student Government Association at Youngstown State University in Ohio decided to take down some controversial Straight Pride flyers hung around campus. The SGA decided that the flyers crossed the line in a few ways: they were unauthorized, had coarse language, and “missed the point of minority activism.” So what did the flyers say? Among […]
Continue reading →After Rebecca Francis posted a picture of herself lying next to a bull giraffe she had killed, comedian Ricky Gervais responded with an inflammatory tweet that elicited a huge amount of condemnation for Francis from animal rights activists. Gervais wrote: “What must’ve happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a […]
Continue reading →Sometimes, very occasionally, a person treats people badly and gets his just desserts. Sometimes, very occasionally, you actually get to see the chickens come home to roost. Such a story is the meteoric fall of Adam Smith, a former CFO whose viral rant against a patient Chick-fil-A employee was the precipitating event in his reversal […]
Continue reading →If you were to base your understanding of what’s wrong with America on the media, what do you think you would cite as America’s No. 1 problem? Racism? Global Warming? Terrorism? The economy? Immigration? Health Care? Nope. According to a recent Gallup poll, the No. 1 problem with America is … government: Government has been […]
Continue reading →Maybe it’s because Brian Williams constantly has a smug, pseudo-intellectual look on his face, but his most recent confession of journalistic wrongdoing filled me with quite a bit of mirth. Apparently that story that he and NBC have been peddling, about Brian Williams being shot down by an RPG while reporting from Iraq in 2003, […]
Continue reading →I think it is hilarious that the people most adamantly opposed to the free market are often enormously benefitted by its machinery. Think Hollywood. Or Hillary Clinton. A story surfaced recently that her speaking fee at colleges is higher than Mitt Romney’s. Much higher, in fact: Mitt Romney will charge Mississippi State University $50,000 to […]
Continue reading →Michael Moore, the famous “documentarian,” posted a controversial tweet about snipers, apparently in response to Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, and then quickly explained his first comments in a subsequent Facebook post (what a social media maven): “Lots of talk about snipers this weekend (the holiday weekend of a great man, killed by a sniper), so […]
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