The Week That Perished

Homosexuals pounced upon the word "€œgay"€ decades ago and seized it as their own, gradually changing its meaning from "€œhappy"€ and "€œcarefree"€ toward something that now denotes "€œangry"€ and "€œintolerant."€ Today's militant gays resemble the militant gay-bashers of ...

Rachel Jeantel

The Week That Perished

George Zimmerman’s murder trial is a rapidly unspooling farce that could likely result in a massive tragedy. When Trayvon Martin's slaying became an international moral panic last year, the media's blind barking supplicants to the Global Cult of Equality stoked racial tensions by first ...

The Week That Perished

Father’s Day has been called “the Rodney Dangerfield of Holidays” and was essentially created as an afterthought to Mother’s Day. It wasn’t declared a national holiday until 1972, while Mother’s Day has been legally enshrined since 1914. Americans spend 55% more ...

President Barack Obama

The Week That Perished

It’s official: Big Brother is watching you. And despite previous denials, he’s finally been forced to admit it. The term “leaks” seems insufficient to describe a pair of revelations regarding US government surveillance last week. They were more like floods, or perhaps even ...

The Week That Perished

SPECIAL “DELIVER US FROM CHAOS” EDITION The past week brought a near-catastrophe in the celestial realm, a deadly calamity in the meteorological realm, and news of a potential pandemic in the biological realm. And here on the ground where human beings rub elbows and battle over ...

Hillary Clinton

The Week That Perished

Last Week's Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories HATEFUL COMMENTS FROM THE RIGHT (FINALLY!) After enduring decades of accusations that they relentlessly spewed out boiling rancid vats of hateful vitriol"€”accusations that were long on hyperbole but short on evidence"€”two right-wing ...

The Week That Perished

One of the countless unsightly blemishes upon the human condition’s soiled visage is that people tend to only get outraged about injustice when it directly affects them. Witness the American media’s reaction last week after the Associated Press revealed on Monday that the US Justice ...

The Week That Perished

SPECIAL EDITION: A BAD WEEK FOR OBAMA (Disclaimer: Please disregard all of the following, because the mainstream media and America’s social-sciences community have already established beyond all doubt that anyone who criticizes, or even dares to think bad thoughts about, America’s 44th ...

The Week That Perished

Last Week's Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories OBAMA-LAMA-DING-DONG! America’s 44th president says he’s comfortable with the fact that the morning-after pill has been approved for over-the-counter sales for anyone over 15, which means his daughter Malia will be eligible to ...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Portrait of the Week

HOME Two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon. A female restaurant manager, a Chinese graduate student, and an 8-year-old boy were killed, and nearly 200 others were injured. Federal agents pieced together that a black bag and pressure cooker were used to create the explosives. The FBI released ...