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Anti-Fox News Site Smears Robert Davi Sans Facts

Anti-Fox News Site Smears Robert Davi Sans Facts

This week actor and singer Robert Davi of Licence to Kill, The Goonies and Die Hard fame appeared on Fox & Friends to talk about political correctness and his new movie, The Iceman. The topic of political correctness came up when

The Power of Good Visuals

In response to How to Make a Music Video: Rihanna’s ‘Stay’ : Thanks for sharing this, Jon.  I thought I’d watch the video with no sound first just to see how the story came across.  The sense of longing and sadness

Could This End the Media's Love Affair with Psy?

Last Friday evening CBS announced that Psy, the anti-American Korean one-hit wonder (“Gangham Style”), would be their guest at the White House Correspondents Dinner.  Even though Psy apologized for a song where he said that American troops and families should be killed

Law School to Allow Termination of Tenured Faculty

If college and universities want to survive, they should follow the Brooklyn Law School’s lead.  From the TaxProf Blog: Brian Leiter (Chicago) reports that Brooklyn Law School’s Board of Trustees has adopted rules permitting the termination of tenured faculty for

The Social Media President

In response to Obama’s Regal Moment of Silence: In the social media age, lots of narcissistic people feel the need to post on Twitter or Facebook every feeling they have.  Somehow their feelings aren’t valid unless expressed publicly and met

Why are we 'should-ing' all over ourselves?

The “Sex and the City” quote, “Why are we ‘should-ing’ all over ourselves?” came to mind when I read this piece in the Guardian, “Female Ivy League graduates have a duty to stay in the workforce.”  Feminists love to tell women

A Must-Read: 'Letters to a Young Progressive'

In a 2004 Townhall column titled “Up From Atheism,” UNC-Wilmington Professor Mike Adams wrote, “Ever since I became a columnist, people have been asking me to explain exactly how I abandoned atheism. I think it would be better to talk

Axelrod: Going Through Obama's Mind 'It Was Tax Day'

From Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard: In explaining why President Obama didn’t call the Boston bombings a “terrorist attack,” former adviser David Axelrod said, “I’m sure what was going through the president’s mind is — we really don’t know

FL Teacher Gives a Lesson in Brainwashing

“I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure.” That was the sentence dictated to her 4th grade class by teacher Cheryl Saab.  From Yahoo News: Aaron Harvey’s son wrote

McCotter Files Suit

Several days ago I posted about the case against former staffers for Thaddeus McCotter.  An ABC affiliate in Michigan uncovered evidence that the former staffers, Don Yowchuang and Dillon Breen, forged signatures on McCotter’s re-election petition for money.  When it was revealed

In Defense of Guy Fieri

It seems to be very popular to make fun of Guy Fieri these days.  Granted he gives people a lot of material — silly food names (“Donkey Sauce”), his hair (bleached blonde), his attire (Ed Hardy-esque), catchphrases (“On point!”), and his

The Wage Gap Myth

For years feminists have said there is a “wage gap” between men and women.  Independent Women’s Forum has a new video explaining why it’s a myth that women earn less than men for the same job.

All Hecklers’ Fatal Flaw

In response to The Iron Lady’s Response to a Heckler Circa 1980: All hecklers are doomed because if they were smart enough or funny enough or clever enough they would be the ones on stage. A few years ago I compiled

Proof We Can Reach Anyone

After the passing of Roger Ebert this week a lot of people mentioned his liberal political views.  I was happy to see that most conservatives were still respectful of his achievements (unlike liberals when a prominent conservative dies).  My first job at

But Don't Blame Social Media for Government Inefficiency

In response to Congressional Staffers Social Media Feeds Tracked by LegiStorm: Though not the point of Kerry’s post, I thought this article out today was interesting: Think Facebook’s your biggest productivity killer in the office? Think again. Social network-obsessed employees just might

Another Post Begging for Good Storytelling

There’s a lot of debate going on in the Twitterverse about this article by Ben Howe of Red State on BuzzFeed (!) titled “Another Bad Conservative Movie.”  The article reviews the movie trailer for “A Movement on Fire” by Tea

Austerity, White House Style

From The Thread: If Michelle Obama‘s Prabal Gurung Easter outfit looks familiar, you’re right. The black and white, silk twill gazar dress with a brush-painted rose print is one of the first lady’s favorites. In fact, we recall two other

It's Never Too Early to Accomplish Great Things

In response to In Reponse to Bill Kristol: I greatly admire Bill and understand his point may have been about making policy out of the fluctuating nature of polls and views of younger generations.  Still, here are just a few

Dawdling Over Doodles

In response to Cesar H. Chavez: I agree with Iowahawk on this.  Given the overt attacks on Christianity in schools and other government entities, I can’t muster the same level of outrage for an offense of omission by Google.  I

Lisa of Easter

My sister and I have always had an affinity for the Easter holiday because our last name means “of Easter” in Italian.  Growing up in Tallahassee, Florida it was both a badge of honor and an annoyance to have a

Do You Miss Manners?

An interesting read in the New York Times’ Style section today about people taking to YouTube to educate Generation Y about etiquette in the digital age. Are manners dead? Cellphones, Twitter and Facebook may be killing off the old civilities and good graces,

End the Ed

A new study finds that administrative spending at public schools has increased 700 percent over the last 50 years.  From The Daily Caller: In the last 20 years, the number of K-12 administrators has increased 2.3 times faster than the