Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Give me horse paste or give me death?

By Ryan Cooper, The Week Nine months after several highly effective coronavirus vaccines started to become available in America, and three to five months after they became available in pharmacies across the country, the pandemic is now as bad as it’s ever been in many states. In Louisiana, Mississippi, […]

Activism, Uncensored: Violence in Portland

By Matt Taibbi Right-wing demonstrators clash with self-styled antifascists in the latest News2Share report. As promised earlier, here’s the extended report from Ford Fischer and News2Share on the events of this past weekend in Portland, which saw wide-scale violence from right-wing protesters and an exchange of gunfire, as […]

Pakistan’s profane blasphemy laws

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid of The Spectator on the religious tyranny in the IRP and its leader’s pathetic attempts to export it beyond his borders. ~MRDA~ _____________________ An eight-year-old Hindu boy is currently in custody in the southern Punjab. He is the youngest person in Pakistan to be charged with […]

How the Bobos Broke America

I’ve always disliked David Brooks as a neocon mouthpiece. But his “bourgeois bohemians” thesis was prophetic. When you’re right, you’re right. By David Brooks, The Atlantic The dispossessed set out early in the mornings. They were the outsiders, the scorned, the voiceless. But weekend after weekend—unbowed and undeterred—they […]

Criminal-Justice Reformers Chose the Wrong Slogan

By Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic After George Floyd’s murder, when sweeping criminal-justice reforms seemed more possible than ever, many Black Lives Matter activists and their allies settled on a rallying cry: “Defund the Police.” That choice was a disaster. The slogan—shorthand for cutting spending on law enforcement and […]

Canceling Critical Race Theory

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I am not a politically correct animal. Out of the good of my bleeding heart, I’ve tried, but my species of genderfuck extraterrestrial just doesn’t swing that way. When the good lord Kali made this mess, she made […]