Isn’t that George Santos, winning a Golden Globe or something?
Isn’t that George Santos, winning a Golden Globe or something?
I had no idea who Andrew Tate was, that he had a stable of cars, that he pisses off Greta Thunberg, and that he now holds the world record for a self-own. But then someone shared this: Andrew Tate’s Arrested for Human Trafficking After Trolling Greta Thunberg.
The investigations triggered by Commissioner Charges are based on claims by Lucas that by favoring employees seeking abortions and not furnishing comparable benefits to pregnant workers or disabled workers, employers are violating the pregnancy discrimination ban in Title VII or the Americans with Disabilities Act.
EEOC Commissioner, In Unusual Procedure, Targets Abortion Travel Benefits By Employers
I’m pleased that this current pro-abortion administration can spot an offense like this.
Kevin D. Williamson’s Bye, Donald Trump — Witless Ape Rides Helicopter is writing for the ages, even if it is going on two years old.
What passes for “news” today
Florida school board votes down recognizing LGBTQ+ month
Wire service report spotted 9/9/22
Alan Jacobs has some advice for remaining sane. It’s likely to be life-saving between now and inauguration day 2025.
This just in: With Russia at war in Ukraine, and Putin’s stench in American nostrils increasing, our 45th POTUS has declared himself an acolyte of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr now.
(Pass it on.)
If you are a conservative curmudgeon, you just might like Dilbert today.
Can we now agree that clergy sexual abuse is not unequivocally caused by celibacy?
Transparency
You don’t need a weatherman to see which way this wind’s blowing.
So: The press has moved on from the last big news story and decided that an 18-year-old nutcase racial mass murderer is a microcosm instead of an outlier. The narrative is forever set now, and no facts (if there be countervailing facts) will change it.
I feel like one of the parents of Harrison Bergeron: What was that story they were covering last week? I can’t recall, but it was real sad, or outrageous, or something riveting.
The question for [Pennsylvania]’s primary voters is: How do you like your populism? Do you want it raw and true, instinctive and gut-sourced, warts and all? Or do you want it meticulously manufactured, recently acquired and worn like a neat-fitting suit? Do you want authenticity in your next senator—and your party—however deranged it may sound at times? Or do you want a convincing salesman, a neophyte with pitch-perfect recall, able to recite on demand the full lexicon of Trumpian populism while registering only the merest blip on the lie detector?
The choice arises as a result of the sudden rise to contention of conservative commentator and military veteran Kathy Barnette. Her surge in the polls is a reminder of how much some voters crave something genuine. Outspent some 25 to 1 by her well-heeled opponents—television physician Mehmet Oz and hedge-fund manager and former Bush administration official David McCormick—she is nonetheless close in the polls.
Gerald Baker, Wall Street Journal
Maureen Dowd (who I seldom read) hits just about every pro-abortion, anti-Catholic trope in common circulation.
She makes herself sound stupid and frenzied — which I partly why I generally avoid her. (See my prior post here.)
Forcing your religion on others?
Is It Unconstitutional for Laws to Be Based on Their Supporters’ Religiously Founded Moral Beliefs?
A sorely needed perspective:
It’s no fun to think that Trump might well have been re-elected had not the laptop class suborned perjury from “experts” that the Hunter’s laptop story was Russian disinformation.
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