That's what Mrs. Sage is. After learning of the abuse Ann Coulter had to endure from the assembled viragos on "The View", from Whoopi Goldberg in particular, the Mrs. wondered aloud, and again, why it is that the conservative cause today is defended most boldly chiefly by women: Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, et al. Where, she asks, are the men?
The simple answer is of course Political Correctness
Conservative women are afforded a measure at least of immunity from elite liberal media persecution because they are a women. And that immunity is not limited to gender. Imagine any and all politically correct categories and the same protections apply. Race: Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Congressman Alan West. Ethnicity: Dinesh D'souza, Governor Nikki Haley. Religion (other than Christianity): Norman Podhoretz, Michael Medved. Disability: Charles Krauthammer (also Jewish, a two-fer)
Which, by the way, makes Rush Limbaugh and his success an even more amazing story.
PS
The Sage is back.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Profiles in Courage
"France to Close Embassies in Fear of Cartoon Backlash"
Oh well, it's the French after all.
But are we far behind?
Oh well, it's the French after all.
But are we far behind?
They Lost it at the Movies?
From the same people who tell us time and again that it's only a movie.
Anyway, Jonah Goldberg focuses in.
Anyway, Jonah Goldberg focuses in.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Who's Responsible?
...for the tearing down of the American flag in Cairo and the murder of our ambassador and three others in Benghazi, that is?
As the elite liberal media are busy circling the wagons around the Obama administration, focusing their disparate frustrations instead on Mitt Romney for having the temerity to express a negative opinion about the American embassy's apology issued to Muslim extremists, a woman called Rush Limbaugh's show today and asked a terrific question. (So good was it in fact that Rush rewarded her with a free IPad.)
She asked: If the Obama administration is so worried about offending tender Muslim sensibilities, why does it, along with the Democrat Party entire and the American Left as well, brag incessantly about killing Osama bin Laden?
Don't misunderstand. At this point for sure, I could not possibly care less about offending Muslim sensibilities. But I do care very much about liberal hypocrisy.
And you should too, because in this case it could get people killed.
As the elite liberal media are busy circling the wagons around the Obama administration, focusing their disparate frustrations instead on Mitt Romney for having the temerity to express a negative opinion about the American embassy's apology issued to Muslim extremists, a woman called Rush Limbaugh's show today and asked a terrific question. (So good was it in fact that Rush rewarded her with a free IPad.)
She asked: If the Obama administration is so worried about offending tender Muslim sensibilities, why does it, along with the Democrat Party entire and the American Left as well, brag incessantly about killing Osama bin Laden?
Don't misunderstand. At this point for sure, I could not possibly care less about offending Muslim sensibilities. But I do care very much about liberal hypocrisy.
And you should too, because in this case it could get people killed.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
40.8%
Down in the lower left corner of this morning's USA Today is a color graph. You know, the same corner the editors place interesting trivia like how many people studiously follow Snooki's escapades.
This morning's fun fact, however, was a register of the percentage of US births to unmarried females. The figures since 1990 are:
1990: 28%
1995: 32.2%
2000: 33.2%
2005: 36.9%
2010: 40.8%
The data for 2012 are not yet available, but does anyone care to bet the trend is in the other direction?
This is not a disaster waiting to happen. This is already a disaster.
God help us.
This morning's fun fact, however, was a register of the percentage of US births to unmarried females. The figures since 1990 are:
1990: 28%
1995: 32.2%
2000: 33.2%
2005: 36.9%
2010: 40.8%
The data for 2012 are not yet available, but does anyone care to bet the trend is in the other direction?
This is not a disaster waiting to happen. This is already a disaster.
God help us.
Monday, September 10, 2012
If You're Interested in Such Things
I hear there's a film adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road in the works. Not sure I'll go see it. I finally got around to reading the famous book about 20 years ago. I didn't get it.
However, maybe you did and even if you didn't you might be interested still in this short piece by Robert Dean Lurie. He makes a case for Kerouac' essential conservatism and, to me, it rings true.
A dear friend of the family is, like Kerouac, a French Canadian from Lowell, Massachusetts and her late husband grew up with him there, mostly playing baseball together. It seems Kerouac was a decent athlete too. When I first learned of this many years ago, I asked him about the famous Beat writer and I remember him smiling with a touch of sadness and saying something like, "He was a good guy, drank too much." Unfortunately, he passed away not long thereafter and I was never able to probe any further his relationship with him.
Anyway, if you're interested.
However, maybe you did and even if you didn't you might be interested still in this short piece by Robert Dean Lurie. He makes a case for Kerouac' essential conservatism and, to me, it rings true.
A dear friend of the family is, like Kerouac, a French Canadian from Lowell, Massachusetts and her late husband grew up with him there, mostly playing baseball together. It seems Kerouac was a decent athlete too. When I first learned of this many years ago, I asked him about the famous Beat writer and I remember him smiling with a touch of sadness and saying something like, "He was a good guy, drank too much." Unfortunately, he passed away not long thereafter and I was never able to probe any further his relationship with him.
Anyway, if you're interested.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Just So
Leave it to Charles Krauthammer to cogently capture it all. All, that is, of the Obama presidency, his election and reelection campaigns, and of the man himself.
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