Picking Soft Targets Again, Jessica?
Jessica Valenti in CiF on burkhas…wait, sorry, my mistake, school uniform: In the last few weeks, almost 200 students – almost all of them female – at Tottenville High School in Staten Island, New York...
View ArticleHey, Michelle, What Do You Think Of Hashtag Campaigns Now..?
Hungry schoolchildren in the US are blaming the First Lady for their stomach-churning canteen lunches by hashtagging them under #thanksMichelleObama. Students have posted their photos of mystery slop...
View ArticleAirbrushing The Past…
…because of hurt feelings: When the government called on them to leave their homes and fight overseas in two world wars, the men of Greenwood answered – black and white alike. And when they fell in...
View ArticleSome Cause/Effect Comprehension Problems In The Left Wing Press…
The report, which was released on Monday, has been in the works since 2013, when Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey asked for help in figuring out why officer-involved shootings were...
View ArticleYet More ‘Gentrification’ Whinging…
Samantha Gillison on living and eating in New York: Once upon a time, as Gore Vidal observed, New York City was a delightful place to live – especially if you were an impoverished foodie. Legendarily...
View ArticleSomething Does Indeed Need To Change…
…how about ‘acceptance of personal responsibility’ for starters? Ian Mercer, originally from Preston, said he was astonished that his 26-year-old son had been able to amass a large haul of guns. “How...
View ArticleCan We Trust The Official Story?
Ah, America, obsessed with guns, dumb, damn Yanks, always quick on the trigger: An Idaho rancher has been killed in a gun battle with deputies who planned to shoot one of his bulls after it had been...
View ArticleDon’t Mention The (Entirely Fictional) War!
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday called on Amazon.com Inc to remove “irresponsible and offensive” subway advertisements for a new television show featuring Nazi-inspired imagery. The...
View ArticleAn Even More Inconvenient Truth…
Lucia Graves on the US electoral system: Bernie Sanders said something he wasn’t supposed to say: that poor people don’t vote. Whoops! The impolitic remark came in response to a question about why the...
View ArticleStill Not Getting It….
Dan Roberts tours America for the ‘Guardian’: Even in the supposedly cosmopolitan US capital, there is sometimes shockingly little tolerance. A block from the White House, I stood behind a man in...
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