Category Archives: Media Criticism

Obama The Aloof Heart

This says it all:

I’ll make a deal with Obama. If he finds the people responsible for the Crusades, the Inquisition, or American slavery still alive and malicious, we’ll bomb them too. In the meantime, how about we start telling the truth about the Islamist terrorists who are right now literally enslaving young girls as sex objects, slaughtering anyone who doesn’t think like them, acquiring territory in the Middle East, and threatening attacks on the US and Europe? History professors can blather on ad nauseam about events 1,000 years ago, but Presidents are supposed to focus on the here and now. Skip the ignorant and hypocritical lectures, and do your job.

He doesn’t seem to know what his job is.

Obama The Aloof Heart

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Some history of the Crusades for those who (like Obama) are historically ignorant, from Claire Berlinski.

The Hugo Wars

On the sad state of science fiction:

Wherever they emerge, social-justice warriors claim to be champions of diversity. But they always reveal themselves to be relentlessly hostile to it: they applaud people of different genders, races, and cultures just so long as those people all think the same way. Theirs is a diversity of the trivial; a diversity of skin-deep, ephemeral affiliations.

This is one of the reasons I haven’t read as much as I did when I was younger. And sadly, the situation is similar on many college campuses.

The Auto Bail Out

It’s official, the taxpayers took a $17B bath on it:

It did not have to be this way. Obama violated numerous bankruptcy laws when he strong-armed GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy, all to the benefit of United Auto Workers members. Non-union employees of the firms got screwed. And so did taxpayers.

That “every penny was paid back” was just another lie from the guy who said you can keep your doctor and your plan.