The Fluke Charade

Mark Steyn  "As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.

"Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere ofMiss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”

"Oh, and the “young coed” turns out to be 30, which is what less evolved cultures refer to as early middle age."... 

....

"“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1784. In the absence of religious virtue, sexual virtue, and fiscal virtue, one might trust to the people’s sense of sheer preposterousness to reject the official narrative of the Fluke charade. Yet even that is not to be permitted. Full disclosure: I will be guest-hosting for Rush Limbaugh this Monday, so it would not be appropriate for me to comment here on Rush’s intervention. But let me say this. Almost every matter of the moment boils down to the same story: The Left’s urge to narrow the bounds of public discourse and insist that “conventional wisdom” unknown to the world the day before yesterday is now as unquestionable as the laws of physics. Nothing that Rush said is as weird or as degrading as what Sandra Fluke and the Obama administration are demanding. And any freeborn citizen should reserve the right to point that out as loudly and as often as possible."

http://conservativedailynews.com/2012/03/war-on-women/

Campus President Rebukes Limbaugh-Supporting Professor/  U. of Rochester intimidates a professor and allows students to disrupt his class.

"At least 17 students even barged into Landsburg’s class and formed a line blocking him off from his students. (Landsburg continued to lecture.) And UR president Joel Seligman sent out a memo blasting Landsburg’s blog entries, saying that he was “outraged that any professor would demean a student in this fashion.”

"Thankfully for free speech, however, Seligman also said:

Professor Landsburg has the right to express his views under our university’s deep commitment to academic freedom.

"Landsburg responded to Seligman in a fourth blog entry."

Gender-Specific Writer / Apple is politically correct at the expense of the English language.

Mona Charen  Apple Pages "has traits that are not immediately apparent, however. While it’s a sturdy little word processor, its true personality is not revealed until you use the proofreader — or Proofreadress, as I now think of her. Yes, she’s female all right. Seems to have been designed and programmed by the women’s-studies department of the Cupertino community college.

"In a column about Rick Santorum, I had used the word “spokesman.” The proofreader flagged it: “Gender specific expression. Consider replacing with ‘speaker,’ ‘representative,’ or ‘advocate.’” Hmm. How would that work? The sentence read, “A spokesman said ‘there is little daylight between Ryan and Gingrich on Medicare.’” None of the suggested words would accurately convey who was talking. Every one would have changed the meaning and confused the reader."

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"I ran Lincoln’s second inaugural past Proofie for fun. She was busy from the first sentence. “Countrymen” was a gender-specific expression. “In regard to” was deemed “wordy.”

Apple’s language sentinel has been schooled in political correctness at the expense of English. In another column I mentioned that the collapse of marriage was “aggravating” inequality in America. Consider “irritating” or “exasperating” instead, Proofreadress advised.

"No, those are words I reserve for her."

Condé Nast

Apple’s covert war on gender-specific expressions

Why do feminists perceive it as a threat to gender equality to acknowledge that men and women are, in fact, different? Why are they unable to see that what is uniquely female — yes, I’m talking, among other things, about childbearing and mothering — has a value all its own? By denying the value of the uniquely female, they essentially say women are unequal to men, that what women alone can contribute to society is of less value than what men alone can contribute.

Words matter. If we obliterate all linguistic evidence of gender difference, we’ll have no vocabulary left with which to think of it — and our understanding of the reality of our very selves will be impoverished, too.

Derrick Bell and the media shrug

Thomas Lifson  "The brilliant graphic artist Big Fur Hat has summed up the stunning double standard of our friends in the media with the following cartoon strip. I can't stop smiling. See what you think."

BELL, VIA KAGAN, ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CONSTITUTION IS THE PROBLEM  "In November 1985, the Harvard Law Review published an article by Derrick Bell that was a "classic" in the development of Critical Race Theory."

 [Prof. Derrick Bell's] "article makes clear that Critical Race Theory sees the U.S. Constitution as a form of "original sin"--a view later embraced by Obama as a state legislator, and reflected in his actions and appointments."

O'Brien

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY?  "Last week, Breitbart.com released video demonstrating Barack Obama’s close relationship with Derrick Bell, the father of Critical Race Theory (CRT). And we’ve seen Soledad O’Brien  try to twist the definition of critical race theory in order to protect Obama by grabbing a quick definition from Wikipedia. But just what is CRT? Why is it so dangerous? And what role does it play in President Obama’s thinking?

"Let’s begin from the beginning."....
...."And then there’s Eric Holder, the Attorney General, who said we were a “nation of cowards” on race, and who has used the Department of Justice to target racial groups unequally (see, for example, the famed New Black Panther case).

"The CRT theme runs deep in the Obama psyche. And it continues to impact us each and every day. That’s why Derrick Bell is relevant. And that’s why we will continue to vet the president – and a media that covers for him by pretending that CRT is mainstream rather than extremist and destructive."

‘GCB’ - Desperately Un-Christian Housewives

Media Research Center  30 Separate attacks on Christianity in new ABC show.  
"In just over 40 minutes ABC managed to degrade Christianity 30 times in its sex-and-sin filled pilot episode of “GCB,” which is anything but Christian. The episode also included an agenda of mocking Texans and conservatives."
" “GCB” has absolutely no shame in mocking prayer and all things sacred to Christianity. This show is a testament to the left’s continued war on faith, and they would like viewers to believe that all Christians behave in this absurd and insulting manner." 


GCB: Good Christian hypocrites  "It’s the rare TV series that jumps the shark in the first episode. But ABC’s season premiere of its new show about mean girls who become desperate housewives in the Bible Belt did exactly that with “GBC”:“Good Christian Bitches.” "

UK Mail: Philadelphia cream cheese pulls their advertising from ABC show Good Christian B****** after just one week  "The Chicago-based cream cheese titan says it made the decision after customer complaints began to pile up".

Fox News: Critics Slam ABC Pilot 'Good Christian Bitches' for 'Inappropriate,' 'Damaging' Title  " “In the past, we’ve raised concerns about changing language standards for television," Henson said. "Once a particular profanity or obscenity has been embraced by a particular show, it quickly becomes mainstream.” "

Hot Air Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?

Hot Air  "Every week about this time, votes start spiking up for the Obamateurism of the Week!  That’s no coincidence, of course — by this time of the week, Obama has our confidence in tatters.  Just remember that we have your back on whatever you choose, even if you’re one of those eeeeeevil corporate jet owners that’s to blame for the deficit, thanks to tax breaks that Obama’s tax guru lobbies to extend.

Previous weekly “winners” in 2012:

• Apology to Karzai “calmed things down“
• Uses Boeing plant in SC to cheer manufacturing after his NLRB tried to shut it down
• Emphasizes graduation rates in SOTU, cuts DC voucher program that nearly doubled grad rates
• “Well, it turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change that I would like sometimes.”
• Finds claim of unemployment “interesting” because he is getting “the word” that woman’s husband should have no trouble finding work
• Hails Roe as essential to allow “our daughters … to fulfill their dreams“
• Shuts down DisneyWorld in order to promote tourism
• “He didn’t want to take pictures with any more soldiers; he was complaining about it[.]
• Famous opponent of signing statements issues one covering 17 provisions of bill he signed

Previous Obamateurisms of the Year:

• Giving 2 minutes of “shout-outs” before getting to the Fort Hood shooting (2009)
• Obama leaves Clinton at press conference podium on tax deal to attend Christmas party (2010)
• “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president— with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln.” (2011)

Obama vs. Israel

Charles Krauthammer  "These negotiations don’t just gain time for a nuclear program about whose military intent the International Atomic Energy Agency is issuing alarming warnings. They make it extremely difficult for Israel to do anything about it (while it still can), lest Israel be universally condemned for having aborted a diplomatic solution."
...."So what is Obama’s real objective? “We’re trying to make the decision to attack as hard as possible for Israel,” an administration official told The Post in the most revealing White House admission since “leading from behind.” "
...."For Israel, however, the stakes are somewhat higher: the very existence of a vibrant nation and its 6 million Jews. The asymmetry is stark. A fair-minded observer might judge that Israel’s desire to not go gently into the darkness carries higher moral urgency than the political future of one man, even if he is president of the United States."  ( Emphasis added.)


ISRAEL UNDER ISLAMIC ATTACK  "UPDATE:  Here are how the enemies of freedom report the Gaza air strikes"

BBC:
---"The Israeli military said" dozens of rockets had been fired into Israel (!???!)

---The first air strike came a few hours after two mortar shells fired from Gaza "landed" in Israel
"without causing injury". (better are "exploded") 
CNN :
---A series of Israeli airstrikes targeted "suspected militants" across Gaza overnight

---"Israel  said"
etc ,etc.

"Just like Nazi Germany. The world sanctions this evil. Tens of thousands of rockets have been fired into Israel over the past seven years, after Israel gave away Gaza. For what? These ongoing rockets attacks were ratcheted up last night. Expect the world to howl and scream bloody murder when the Jews defend themselves."