It looks like the boycott backfired. UPDATE: Seems like quite a few chicken-loving, same-sex marriage foes turned out for Wednesday’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. Based on reports from around the country, many Chick-fil-As had lines out the door come lunchtime. Attendees emphasized a mix of support for the company’s […]
EMEMBERING A LOST WORLD – BEFORE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN PHOTO: The Student Lounge at the University of Tehran in 1971. According to the New York Times, “Until the revolution, Iran was among the most cultured, cosmopolitan countries in the region. It had a progressive movement in […]
The transition between bans 3 and 4 smashes it! Volunteered, by Aaron Kinney, to The Radical Libertarian ___________
By Keith Preston The erotic sculptures of Khajuraho Of the various manifestations of the egalitarian cultural revolution that has transpired in the Western world over the past half century, none have been quite so enduring or become so deeply rooted in the culture of modern society as […]
Interesting description of the current sexual marketplace as an artificial market. All those guys you know who screw a lot of women are Omega’s exploiting a niche produced by feminism and urban anonymity. In a tribal society these sort of guys would be killed or expelled by an alliance of alphas and betas; if they could manage to get laid in the first place….
Another good ‘un from Goad… ___________ The hoarsely ululating throats of the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” movements screamed at each other outside a small abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi last week as a federal judge cock-blocked a state lawand allowed the clinic to stay open for now. The law […]
Luna @ A Hopeful Pessimist on truants, prozzies, paternalism, and Social Darwinism. _________ Well, I’m back again. I didn’t intend to take this long to write again, but due to technological troubles, I was offline for awhile, thus making it impossible to post more entries. This is not […]
rt.com AFP Photo/Getty Images Swinging sex parties are slowing finding a place among Saudi Arabia`s foreign residents and elite. One foreign couple gave a sneak peak into their private lives that could cost them their freedom or more in the conservative Islamic kingdom. The couple, living in the […]
By Nick Smith OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Police are keeping close watch on the Oakland Convention Center. Wednesday afternoon, anarchist demonstrators clashed with officers when they were denied entrance to a conference on human trafficking. Demonstrators, calling themselves “Occupy Patriarchy” gathered outside the convention center to protest the conference […]
James Joyner on the rapecage-industrial complex. From Outside the Beltway. ____________ Christopher Glazer takes to N+1 magazine to argue that we should Raise the Crime Rate. Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot […]
Swedish courts in sensible verdict shocker! Read all about it at The Local. I also found this tidbit—from artist Trevor Brown’s blog—interesting… i just received a letter yesterday from a fellow swede saying “…his ex tried to get him convicted for sexual abuse of their child so she […]
From the New Statesman. Might be a worthy read for those interested in modern men’s issues. __________ By Ally Fog Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will probably have experienced an encounter like this: Bloke: “Yeah, but men can also be victims of violence and injustice, […]
By Thomas Francis During his sophomore year in high school, Cody Beck finally got fed up with hearing homophobic cracks. If his classmates thought being gay was weird (Beck was openly bisexual), he had a confession that would blow their minds. He told them he is sexually attracted to dogs […]
By Richard Spencer The cloyingly named “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act” (HR3541) failed in the House on Thursday, despite gaining overwhelming Republican support. If passed, the bill would have outlawed racial and sexual discrimination in abortion, jailing any doctor who helped a woman end a pregnancy […]
From the BBC. _____________ By Owen Bowcott Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden at the supreme court. By a majority of five to two, the justices decided that a public prosecutor was “judicial authority” and that therefore his arrest warrant had been lawfully issued. […]
Salon reports on the latest Stateside sin tax. ________________ By Tracy Clark-Flory It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society’s ills. Now they’re actually being charged for it. In recent years, measures have been introduced in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and, most recently, California […]
From the Guardian. Such views always remind me of this cartoon… I’m sure the Jacobin paternalists on the Continent would love to tell Nadiya how “oppressed” she is… _______________ by Nadiya Takolia When you think of the hijab, you probably don’t think “political”. Or “independent”. Or “empowered”. Feminist? […]
From BBC News. Don’t “think of the children” too much, lest you lose valuable freedoms (and IQ points) in the process! ____________ Pornography filters on mobile phones are “censoring” normal web content, according to the Open Rights Group. Its report found that 60 websites were incorrectly blocked by […]
Note: Any serious anarchist and libertarian strategy needs to recognize that the culture wars are primarily a conflict with the upper middle class with the Left being the overall winner, and with the rest of U.S. society divided on predictable socio-economic (i.e. class) lines. By Pat Buchanan It […]
Thaddeus Russell makes his case. Not that I think homosexuals should have to fit anyone’s Ideal Procrustean Queer mould, but do they not signal their social conservatism to the degree that they embrace this ritual? __________________________ Back in the days when there was an identifiable counter-cultural movement in […]
Obama’s proclamation of support for same sex marriage solidified his support among Democrats, young people and college graduates. In general, Republicans, older people and less educated people responded unfavorably to the President. In comparison, the opinion of blacks remains relatively unchanged. The White House likely did not make […]
An interesting discussion of this question from Richard Spencer and Andy Nowicki
Pucker up, lads!
From CNN Politics (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he supports same-sex marriage, raising the political stakes on an issue over which Americans are evenly split. The announcement was the first by a sitting president and put Obama squarely at odds with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt […]
Interesting interview from the The Daily Bell. Introduction: Charles Johnson is a web developer, a prolific left-libertarian writer and book author, a student of philosophy, and sometime teacher of logic. He was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1981 and has lived most of his life in the […]
From Reason.Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– OK boys, strap on your rubbers, it’s raining nonsense. The Los Angeles City Council voted 9-1 to require male porn actors to wrap their rascals and wear condoms when they’re shooting. And when they’re filming. The move is being closely watched by other filth hamlets looking […]
Putting Linda Lovelace to shame.
Article by Jim Goad. ————————————————————————————————————————————— The rabidly politicized, mad-as-hell, accept-us-or-die quotient of gay Americans—at last count, somewhere between 97 to 99 percent of them—seem determined to prove that they can get just as offended as your average hillbilly breeder mountaineer, if not more so. It’s as if they’re […]
MRDA explains.
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” -Barry Goldwater “With respect to libertarian eccentricity, the dream of an absolute private freedom is one of those visions that issue from between the gates of ivory; and the disorder that they would thrust upon society already is displayed […]
I’ve written rather critically of the cultural Left in the past. I do this for two primary reasons: 1) my view that left-wing concerns about matters like oppression of racial minorities, women, homosexuals, et al, while rooted in legitimate concerns and historical realities, have metamorphed into a new […]
British emigre and paleoconservative John Derbyshire has an interesting discussion of Ron Paul, Libertarian and Classical Anarchism on today’s VDARE.com: http://www.vdare.com Some responses to Mr. Derbyshire’s critique: “The libertarian Establishment has disdain for Ron Paul‘s presidential campaign. The geeky idealists of Reason and the Cato Institute failed to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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