Margaret Thatcher has died, and the world is suddenly just a little bit lighter, sweeter and more beautiful. Thatcher once said, “There is no such thing as society”, and people claiming that in context this wasn’t intended as Ayn Rand philosophy just don’t understand Ayn Rand philosophy. Perhaps the best way to remember Thatcher is through an extra on the Live Aid DVDs released a [...]
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Jennifer Kesler
President Obama recently referred to Kamala Harris as the “best looking” attorney general, and people are debating whether this was bad, bad-bad, bad-bad-bad or just not a big deal. It’s really not that hard to sort out. First, the full quote in its original context in a speech at a fund-raiser: “You have to be careful to, first of all, say she is brilliant and [...]
The L.A. Times is reporting that it looks like the Supreme Court will lift the ban on same sex couples receiving federal benefits reserved for married couples. This would mean that same sex couples who have legally married in a state that allows them to would be able to get survivor Social Security benefits and a few other things they haven’t been able to get [...]
I just witnessed two middle-aged geezers refusing to let a young attractive woman carry some cartons of beer. Did they hasten to take these burdens from her and carry them for her in a possibly misguided yet well-intentioned bout of chivalry? No, they just told her where a cart was and argued forcefully every time she insisted she’d rather just carry her stuff than use [...]
In a recent article, Irin Carmon at Salon.com explores the fact that Catholic health care providers have really expanded business in the last few years, so if Obamacare doesn’t require them to perform abortions to save a mother’s life, some women won’t have that option at all. If the only hospital near you is Catholic, or if you can’t be moved from a Catholic hospital [...]
I believe pet rocks are alive and deserving of human rights. I have collected a lot of petition signatures from people agreeing with me. Now I demand the government must listen to me and pass laws protecting pet rocks. People who get rid of pet rocks they don’t want are criminals. It sounds silly, but only because it’s not backed up by a relatively old [...]
This should turn a few men Democrat. A man answered a Craigslist ad from a lesbian couple a few years ago by providing them some of his sperm. They signed agreements that he wasn’t the father and had no financial responsibility for the child. One of the women had his genetic offspring, and then the lesbian couple split and one of them had to stop [...]
