In February 2013, when my audience was composed primarily of mainstream Republicans, I wrote a column titled "Masturbating Conservatives." The right was still smarting from an election that"how can this be phrased delicately?"pantsed us and mocked our shrinkage. The goal of my piece ...
More and more, the Internet is becoming as predictable as the plot of a Michael Bay film. Every new social-media "outrage" is inevitably followed by "counter-outrage" (i.e., outrage about the outrage). There's no way to predict what each new outrage of the week will be (a police ...
Something very morbid is going on in the press these days every time there's an act of violence by a person who might have racial, religious, or ideological motives. If the perp is white, and if he has even the slightest connection to anything vaguely right-wing, the liberal press screams, ...
I"ve never had much use for smug, arrogant leftist atheists like Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, or Seth MacFarlane, whose smarmy "aren"t we ever-so-clever" attitude I find as irritating as a bur sweater. But this week, it occurred to me that in their own way, these self-satisfied ...
Unless you were living under a rock last week (or unless you have, you know, a life), you surely heard about Donald Trump's whirlwind anti-illegal-immigration campaign stop in L.A. on Friday. Trump was in town to give a talk to the "secret" Hollywood conservative group Friends of Abe, ...
In the classic Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze," Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregory asks Holmes, "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes answers, "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." The perplexed inspector replies, ...
On June 24, NBC News prominently featured a story on its website headlined "White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study." Clicking the link took readers to a site called GlobalPost, and an article that begins, "White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United ...
The horrific mass shooting in a Charleston church is bringing out the best in all of us. I might be using the word "best" incorrectly. Left-wing pundits are blaming conservatives and white people in general. Conservatives are predictably tongue-tied and clumsy, longing for the days when ...
I had a mouthful of barbecue when the white South African calmly explained the proper way to dispose of a dead black man. The topic was disturbing enough, but the deadpan delivery, and my suspicion that he was speaking from experience, made it much, much worse. "You leave him to the lions," ...
Of all the contentious issues on the cultural and political scene today, the "draw Muhammad" controversy seems to bring out the most unsavory types, on all sides. It's like sitting through a sporting event in which your two least favorite teams are playing, with vendors hawking your least ...
