The state of American culture

Disney brings lesbian moms to TV
“ 'Instead of becoming a leader in political correctness, we encourage Disney to hold on to their title as the leader in good, fun and wholesome,” the column said.
"TV Guide reports the lesbian characters will appear on an episode of “Good Luck Charlie.' ”

One-time Disney child star Miley Cyrus, who starred in the “Hannah Montana” franchise, and since has been active in her advocacy for same-sex marriage tweeted, “I commend Disney for making this step in the light of this generation.”

Media wrestles with how to refer to Manning
"The Associated Press’s widely used stylebook says reporters should use the name and pronouns preferred by a transgender person, even if the person has not changed his or her sexual identity yet. Thus, Manning would be referred to as “she” in AP articles."

Bradley Manning Is Not a Woman "Pronouns and delusions do not trump biology."

Is being gay the new Hollywood fad?

Long past time for that race conversation Eric Holder called for. Troubling Update

WW II vet survived Okinawa; beaten to death "Police, who have examined surveillance footage, say they are looking for two possible suspects between the ages of 16 and 19.
"A friend, Ted Denison, told The Spokesman-Review that Belton was shot in the leg during the fighting in Okinawa in 1945."

Blackfive

"Several of you have sent links and shared with me on Facebook, so I'm posting here to help get the word out.  These are photos of two suspects in the Spokane area who beat and killed a WWII veteran.  They apparently did so without provocation and without an obvious reason (which suggests one in and of itself) as robbery was (apparently) not involved. 
"Share these photos.  Spread them far and wide.  Leave them no place to hide. 
 "Here is the man they murdered:
 

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From Hope n' Change: Just Killing Time

Ebony Magazine adds fuel to the fire   "The public needs to hold Ebony's owners and editors responsible for inciting violence. If we can blame hate-filled videos, the schools, poverty and rap for these crimes, why not add these race hustlers to the list." 

The ‘Race Conversation’ Network   "MSNBC has mastered the art of making unracial things racial. "

UPDATE from Debbie Schlussel:  "RACISM: Meijer Store Customer Assaults, Threatens to Murder Me “bc of Trayvon Martin;” Black Employees Laugh w Her, Mock Me"   ".... I’ve repeatedly been subject to the racism of one of the two most racist groups of people in the world: American Blacks. (The other group is Muslims.) Today, my life was threatened in the name of Trayvon Martin in a store, as I tried to check out. And it was done with the Black employees mocking me and laughing with the woman who threatened me that she would “beat yo’ ass and kill you.' ”

Racism Usually Doesn’t Come Cloaked in a White Hood

Alan Caruba: I am Tired of Being Called a White Racist

Warning Signs

 

"I don’t know when it occurred to me that I had gone from having shaken hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to being called a white racist, but apparently I was not paying attention.

"Neither were a lot of others of my generation who had welcomed and supported the Civil Rights movement only to discover we were not going to hear a word of thanks. Younger generations have suffered the same indignity."

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...."It needs to be said that racism cuts both ways, but too much black racism gets a pass. Whites are not to blame at this point. One hopes the Saturday march in D.C. will reflect Dr. King’s generous and hopeful speech of fifty years ago. I doubt that will happen."

Spouses and young people under ObamaCare

ObamaCare Kicks Wives Off Their Husbands’ Health Plans   "Employer health insurance must cover employees dependent children up to age 26, but there is nothing that says it has to cover spouses. The fees associated with the plan are causing employers to reconsider whether or not to included wives and/or husbands in their medical plans. When it comes down to it, ObamaCare could actually be considered a War On The Family Unit."
Many will be driven to the federal exchanges, as Democrats want.

Obamacare Is Really, Really Bad For You, Especially If You're Young  "Preventing health insurers from fully accounting for age will not change the reality that, in general, the older you are, the greater your medical expenses (six times greater, when you compare 64-year-olds to 18-year-olds). These are costs that someone has to pay. If insurers can’t charge those older according to their risk, they have to overcharge those younger to make up the cost."
Some younger people will see what they pay for insurance double.

Even though Brian judges this to be the best way to manage his medical expenses, under the health law, it’s illegal for insurers to offer him a policy geared to his actual risk. Instead, per government mandate, a portion of the income he earns and intends to use to build his life is channeled into the pockets of others.

Another way ObamaCare will stifle the American economy.

Study: Three million young Americans would save $1,000 by forgoing the Obamacare health exchanges
"The youngest candidate running for Congress, Ron Meyer (R-VA), says many younger Americans will follow the economic incentives Obamacare has created and skip signing up for the government health exchanges altogether."

Beware the wounded lame duck

Obama may be a lame duck, but -like a wounded bull- is still capable of causing much damage with his executive orders.

Hillary's early start produces unintended consequences, including for Obama   ...."Don’t get us wrong: The Democratic Party is still Obama’s party, and there is unity for most of his agenda. But some are beginning to cast a wayward glance at Hillary Clinton. That has an impact. The last thing the president needs is for HIS political arm (OFA) to be competing with Clinton for resources, and we’re not just talking about financial resources."....

NBC's Chuck Todd thinks she may be intensifying Obama's lame duck status  by launching into her campaign so early, marginalizing Obama sooner than necessary. 

 

Is Obama Already a Lame Duck?  " It’s been a bad summer for the Obama administration. At home, the president’s negligible legislative agenda remains stalled as his incessant attempts to demonize Republicans have poisoned efforts to find common ground on even those areas where large elements of both parties might work together. Even Democrats consider the rollout of ObamaCare to be a “train wreck”.... A late spring of scandals ... has given way to a summer of paranoia about the National Security Agency that the president has proven incapable or unwilling to address."

4 Problems with Federal College Scorecards

 

Heritage;   "Yesterday, President Obama announced his plan to make “college more affordable, tackle rising costs, and improve value for students and their families.”
But a big part of the President’s plan includes creating a college rating system—a federal scorecard—to evaluate colleges on measures such as graduation rates, the number of low-income students served (i.e., the percentage of Pell Grant recipients), graduate earnings, and affordability.
Scorecards are a seductive idea. But having the federal government issue scorecards to measure college output would be a mistake. Four problems with the President’s plan:"
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"If the Obama Administration truly wants to “shake up” higher ed and bring down college costs, it would acknowledge that federal government intervention is the problem, not the solution." 

Caroline Glick; When failure carries no cost

Jerusalem Post;  "Before, during and following his assault, Hasan made his jihadist motives obvious to the point of caricature in his statements about the US, the US military and the duties of pious Muslims.

"But rather than believe Hasan, and so do justice to his victims, the Obama administration, with the active collusion of senior US military commanders went to great lengths to cover up Hasan’s ideological motivations and hence the nature of his crime. On the day of the attack, Lt.-Gen. Robert Cone, then commander of III Corps at Ft. Hood, said preliminary evidence didn’t suggest that the shooting was terrorism. Cone said this even though it was immediately known that before he began shooting Hasan called out “Allahu akhbar.” He called himself a “Soldier of Islam” on his business cards."
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On the media enablers of Obama's wavering in the face of Islamic terrorism:

The media’s collusion was so great that CNN anchor Candy Crowley threw a US presidential debate when she defended Barack Obama’s handling of the attack by inserting false information in the middle of the debate that she was moderating.

In this same wide-ranging article on the goals of radical Islam (or not) and the cowardly fecklessness of the US, Ms. Glick discusses Benghazi, US appeasement of Iran and Israel's dependence on America as an ally. She writes:

But we mustn’t believe their assurances or succumb to their pressure. Obama will not change course. He doesn’t have to. So long as he maintains faith with the god of appeasement, the US media will protect him. And so long as they protect him, he will pay no price for his failures. So he will repeat them.

Israel cannot countenance a nuclear Iran. So Israel needs to attack Iran’s nuclear installations.

 Emphasis added, TD

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Jesse Jackson Slams Conservatives For Comparing Trayvon Martin To Slain Aussie Baseball Player Chris Lane…

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Weasel Zippers   Quoting The Hill: 
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Thursday that conservatives are wrong to compare the Trayvon Martin case to the death of Chris Lane.
"During an interview on MSNBC, Jackson was asked whether he thinks that “some on the right are making a false equivalency” between Martin and Lane, a young white baseball player allegedly killed Friday by three black teenagers."
Just the kind of leading question someone on MSNBC would ask. Megyn Kelly or Greta Van Susteren would not have served up that cream puff to Jackson because that would not be their agenda.

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On Hillary Clinton

Camille Paglia   

Salon; Camille Paglia: “It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton is our party’s best chance”
"It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts."

 

The Hillary Hype  "My column today is on what great fun it will be if Joe Biden decides to run for president. 

...."I am increasingly convinced the Hillary inevitability talk is ridiculous (and I am at a loss as to why so many conservatives are fatalistic about a Clinton victory). As I’ve written a few times already, she’s a decidedly dull politician. Ask a normal person to watch Hillary Clinton give a speech or an interview and odds are they’ll respond, “What’s the big deal? She’s boring.”.... Jonah Goldberg

A possible far[ther]-left challenge to Hillary in 2016   "Howard Dean could easily emerge in 2016 as the far left alternative to Hillary Clinton for president in 2016."

How Hillary pulls the strings at NBC "Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters exposes the way Team Hillary is manipulating the NBC networks over the planned miniseries on her life. The planned offer of fealty turned into a disaster when Reince Priebus and the GOP stood up, cried foul and threw NBC out of contention to host 2016 presidential debates, along with CNN which planned a documentary."....

"The Clinton Machine is a marvel to behold. Stay tuned for the project to die with no Clinton fingerprints on it."

Report: NBC News Fears 'Retaliation From the Former First Lady' If Hillary Miniseries Airs   " 'It's a bit rich for Todd and Mitchell to cry foul now about their journalistic purity being contaminated by commercial and ideological considerations. As if the MSNBC lineup where Todd and Mitchell ply their trade every day is not shared with activist ideologues such as Al Sharpton and Ed Schultz.' "

 

Brit Hume: Case For Hillary Clinton "Being A Great Secretary Of State Is Exceedingly Weak"   " I think those examples you cited would add up to a case for her competence. They do not

add up to a case for greatness, after all, the groundwork on Burma had been done by the previous administration.....Has the reset with Russia, which she so famously introduced with the photo-op in Moscow with the reset button, has they lead to a new and more cooperative relationship? Is there a Clinton doctrine that we can identify that she has articulated and formed as secretary of state? Are there major treaties that she has undertaken and negotiated through to a successful conclusion? I think the answer to all those questions is that she has not."....
 
Through Hillary, the United States groveled before the world over the Mohammed video
 

 Hillary Botches Civil Rights Hero's Name  "Medgar Evans."   And next is the incident that was the last straw leading to my resignation from the Democrat Party. You can read the letter of resignation to the Democrats in the right sidebar of this blog. TD

 

The Oklahoma shooter was raised by this mother.

Meet Brenda Edwards, Mother of Accused ‘Bored’ Teen Killer James Edwards  "She has three known aliases. As things stand now, her relationship with Oklahoma’s criminal justice system won’t end for several decades. Her multiple convictions include distribution of cocaine. She was in court in Duncan, OK, as recently as May 2010, when she was found to have violated her parole by obtaining prescription drugs by fraud. Her probation was revoked.
"If we’re going to blame a “culture” for James Edwards’ alleged part in Chris Lane’s murder, as some want to blame the so-called “gun culture,” shouldn’t the culture of recidivist criminality come under scrutiny?"

No mention of a father.

Tour the Original M*A*S*H TV Set

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America the Trivial; The Kardashians and Anthony Weiner are deemed more worthy of attention than what affects the security and prosperity of our nation.

Victor Davis Hanson  "Two quite different 21st-century Americas are emerging. The nation is not so much divided by “wars” between the rich and poor, men and women, or white and non-white. Instead, there is the world of reality versus that of triviality."
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"Yet part of America’s confusion about what is important and petty begins at the top."