Here’s a tasty one. When the Romney campaign uses the slogan “Obama Isn’t Working,” it’s RAAAAAAACISM, according to someone named Tommy Christopher at Mediaite: The slogan is a multiple entendre, but one of those entendres, intentionally or not, is evocative of a nasty racial stereotype about black men. When I first saw the banner this [...]
The punditocracy is having a lot of fun with this: The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a [...]
One of my favorite opinion journalists, John Derbyshire, was dismissed from the staff of National Review this weekend. I first heard of it in a roundabout way. I spotted his name in a headline during one of my periodic check-ins at The Nation‘s web site. (That’s an excellent place to monitor ongoing hard left narratives, [...]
As many of you know, I’ve been a contributor at Tennessee Valley Moms Network for several weeks now. I’m having a wonderful time! Heather and I christened my little corner of the site Hold My Light today, and that’s where you’ll be able to find me going forward over there. Please, come see us. Bookmark [...]
Free To Be… You and Me was one of my greatest treasures as a child. It’s an anthology of short fiction, poetry, songs, and a dialogue or two, all having to do in one way or another with being true to yourself, with a frequent emphasis on gender neutrality. I bet I went all the [...]
