America faces a crossroads and most Americans know it. They know that the state invading every aspect of life from constipation to thermostat setting to TV type elevates the state over the individual. If God isn't making the rules for America, god, in the form of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama, the Triune of I-Know-Better-Than-You-What-Is-Good-For-You will be making the rules. And boy, are they.
Naomi Wolf defended the Muslim veil. This is something I wrote about a couple weeks ago amidst some controversy because I feel that the face covering specifically is wrong for the reasons Phylllis Chesler mentions here:
For another perspective on this movie, I suggest reading John Rosenthal's review titled "Inglourious Basterds: A German Fantasy, Not a ‘Jewish’ One". Rosenthal posits that the movie is written to make the Germans look sympathetic, and the joke is on the buffoonish Americans--who are neither cultured nor competent and barbaric to boot. The movie glorifies German fantasies of vengeful Jews, when in reality, the Germans were the barbarians. One wouldn't know this watching the movie, according t…
It would make sense that Feminists would oppose burqas because they are a tool of oppression for women: that is, burqas are specifically made to make a woman persona non grata. A burqa's very purpose is to hide the woman and make her invisible as an individual. She is just not there.
My latest Pajamas Media column practically wrote itself this last weekend and could have been twice as long. The column discusses how feminists are a-ok with misogyny as long as conservative women are the recipients. It's summed up nicely in the bumper sticker, "They're not women! They're Republicans!"
For me, it wasn't the President's speech that interested me all that much. The translation of the speech is simple: Appease. What was interesting in Egypt was who wasn't there. Where was Michelle?