John Hayward

When discussing the thoughtcrime prosecution and ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich last night, I quoted a passage from a First Things article which appeared to assert that Eich’s donation to the campaign for the Prop 8 gay marriage ban

Just a couple of weeks into his tenure as CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich has been ousted by a mob of jackbooted same-sex marriage supporters, for the unforgivable crime of donating $1000 in 2008 to the Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban

Admittedly I used a bit of a loaded headline there, but I’m only returning the favor, since National Journal chose to headline their article on the debate over surrendering American oversight of web domains “Republicans Fear Obama Will Let Russia

In response to Jay Carney: ObamaCare Critics Are “Gnashing Their Teeth” : Actually, ObamaCare critics are steadily repeating the same logical, evidence-supported points they’ve been making all along, while the White House and its media lapdogs caper and dance like

Back when I was suggesting people of faith give Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” a chance before dismissing it, one of the ideas I floated in this forum was that viewers might be inspired to read the source material, which would be

In response to Schwarzenegger’s Still a Movie Star: I’m sure some of the buzz over Ahnold’s busted comeback is the growing sense that he can’t “open” a film any more – people won’t show up just because he’s on the

If you don’t like Wes Anderson’s movies, you certainly aren’t going to like “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which is a jolt of pure, concentrated Wes-ness.  For his detractors, it will seem like a candy-colored Wes wasteland.  There isn’t a single

The Hill reports that House Republicans have introduced legislation to block the Obama Administration’s move to hand Internet oversight over to an as-yet non-existent international entity: “America shouldn’t surrender its leadership on the world stage to a ‘multistakeholder model’ that’s

Allahpundit at Hot Air has some interesting thoughts on why support for the death penalty reached an all-time national low of 55 percent in the latest Pew survey, versus 38 percent opposed.  (Interesting that so many other issues with considerably

If you missed today’s Internet kerfuffle, it surrounded a “joke” made in extremely poor taste by Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, delivered via Twitter, and now deleted: “I am willing to show the Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Cong

President Mitt Romney wanted to talk about his meeting with the Pope today, but instead he was besieged by a swarm of reporters shouting questions about the remarkable string of high-profile Republicans arrested by the FBI, or resigning under federal

Some fans of Dean Koontz’s popular recurring character, Odd Thomas, might be surprised to discover there’s a movie about him.  It got stuck in distribution hell and eventually slipped quietly onto DVD, popping up at Redbox kiosks and video-on-demand last

In response to Laszewski: ‘Obamacare is Finished’ Unless White House Acts Now: I’ll say this much for ObamaCare: it’s already survived catastrophic failures that should have filled the streets of Washington with pitchforks and torches.  It really help that the

Fox News reports on the latest black eye for the Secret Service, as agents on the President’s security detail are once again in hot water: Three Secret Service agents on President Obama’s detail were sent home from the Netherlands after

An Israeli Air Force training flight crashed in the Sea of Galilee in 1962, killing both instructor 1st Lt. Yakir Naveh and his student, cadet Oded Koton.  Koton’s body was recovered within a year, but they’re still searching for Lt.

Over at The Federalist, my friend David Harsanyi susses out an organized media campaign to use creationism as a means of frightening secular parents away from school choice: Yes,14 states spend “nearly $1 billion” of taxpayer tuition on “hundreds of

Economist John Lott zings the economics of ObamaCare, picking apart the fuzzy math of an Administration advertisement (complete with a cartoon that literally depicts the target audience of of college-age young people as small children who get boo-boos by falling

In response to Truly Frightening 161 Second Horror Film: There’s so much the creators of “Lights Out” are doing right.  I might quibble a bit with a grown adult hiding from the unknown beneath her bedsheets in such a situation,

Me, joshing around on Twitter last Thursday morning: Since CNN has black holes out of the way, it’s probably time to talk about whether global warming vaporized Flight 370. — John Hayward (@Doc_0) March 20, 2014 Mother Jones the following

To date, nearly all of the politicians criticizing the Obama Administration’s plan to hand over supervision of Internet domains to some sort of international organization next year have been Republicans.  Now there’s a very notable exception: former President Bill Clinton.

The Associated Press reports on the latest act of unspeakable cruelty from heartless, tightwad red-state officials: Louisiana welfare recipients will be prohibited from spending the federal assistance at lingerie shops, tattoo parlors, nail salons and jewelry stores, under new limits

John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog took the Washington Post down, hard, on Thursday for foolishly accepting a false report from a left-wing activist group and running it as a “news” story.  Hinderaker’s debunking of the article, an exercise in anti-Koch

While everyone updates their 2016 presidential bracket picks, let’s consider a point in favor of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: he drives Democrats absolutely insane.  His gubernatorial opponent, Mary Burke, already sloshed gasoline all over her credibility and set herself on