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Does not fit the (Obama campaign’s #WarOnWomen) narrative

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Posted by    Friday, April 27, 2012 at 10:00am

Kay Hymowitz:  Why Women Make Less Than Men (h/t Instapundit):

One stubborn fact of the labor market argues against the idea. That is the gender-hours gap, close cousin of the gender-wage gap. Most people have heard that full-time working American women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. Yet these numbers...

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Bill Maher reaping what Media Matters has sown

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Posted by    Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 9:18am

We live in a world where groups like Media Matters and Think Progress monitor and record every word uttered by any conservative of prominence in the media, hoping to find something “insensitive” with which to mount a campaign to silence the speaker through intimidation of advertisers.

So what goes around come around, and...

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Don’t blame the U.N. Human Rights Council

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Posted by    Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 12:22pm

It doesn’t know any better, it lives for self-parody, UN rights council delves into US voter I.D. laws:

The controversy over requiring voters to provide photo IDs has reached the world stage.

The United  Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election  laws at its gathering on minority rights in Geneva,...

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Regrets, they have a few

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Posted by    Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 11:18am

But then again, not too few to mention.

Dave Serchuk in Forbes, Congratulations! You Just Made Rush Limbaugh Sympathetic! (emphasis mine):

Imagine this scenario: you are a lifelong liberal. You pretty much hate everything Rush Limbaugh stands for, and says. You are really glad that the times have finally seemed...

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A Coffee mandate leaves me unsatisfied

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Posted by    Monday, March 12, 2012 at 1:37pm

There’s a lot of talk today about imposing a coffee mandate on employers, including Mormon institutions which oppose the use of caffeine, because of the health benefits of coffee.

Not enough.

It must be a “good coffee” mandate.

We have something here that’s free and they call “coffee,” but the lab tests have not...

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“No taxation without rubberization”

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Posted by    Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 9:00am

Mark Steyn views the Fluke fiasco from Down Under:

The brave middle-aged schoolgirl had the courage to stand up in public and demand that someone else pay for her sex life….

…. No taxation without rubberization, as the Minutemen said. The shot heard round the world, and all that….

No, the most basic issue here is...

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“That, Madame, is intellectual baby-talk”

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Posted by    Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 9:45am

Monckton’s Schenectady showdown, h/t reader John:

As they filed in, Lord Monckton was chatting contentedly to a quaveringly bossy woman with messy blonde hair who was head of the college environmental faction. Her group had set up a table at the door...

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The “Filthy” State of Values in Our Schools

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Posted by    Friday, March 9, 2012 at 11:05am

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of sitting in on a lecture given by Dr. Richard Baer, professor emeritus of environmental ethics and education, at an event hosted by the Cornell Republicans.

Baer spoke at length about how, in their rush to ensure that they’re not promoting religious values, state-run and other “non-sectarian” schools...

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Thought police at Univ. Rochester

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Posted by    Friday, March 9, 2012 at 8:30am

From University of Rochester (NY) Professor Stephen E. Landsburg, a blisteringly refreshing view of Sandra Fluke, Rush to Judgment (via Althouse h/t Instapundit):

But while Ms. Fluke herself deserves the same basic respect we owe to any human being, her position — which is what’s at issue here — deserves none whatseover.   It deserves...

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Maybe the readers are right, and sunshine is not enough

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Posted by    Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 8:15am

There’s something Bill Maher understands. What goes around comes around.

Media Matters and Think Progress can organize a campaign to attack Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers as a means — they hope — of forcing him off the air.  But what goes around comes around.

And it will.

So Maher has come to Limbaugh’s defense not on...

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Announcing The Carbonite Accountability Project

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 1:14pm

On Saturday, March 3, 2012, Carbonite announced that it was dropping its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show even after Limbaugh had apologized to Sandra Fluke for certain comments made regarding Ms. Fluke.

When the controversy originally broke, Carbonite took a principled stand that its advertising was not an endorsement of a particular...

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No Country for old Free Exercise Clauses

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 11:25am

Commenter CWLsun put together a list of links in the Tip Line regarding the explicit plan of various law school branches of Students for Reproductive Freedom to establish secular contraceptive policies at Catholic educational institutions.

I don’t have a problem with that when it is done without using the force of government.

If Sandra Fluke had convinced...

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Only the Tea Party, Christians, Republicans, and Conservatives are allowed to be portrayed as everything Hollywood actually is

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Posted by    Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 9:51am

The Hollywood movie industry is not racist just because there are few blacks or other racial minorities in leading roles, on the set, or in the executive suite.

Hollywood is not sexist even though the culture of the casting couch still lives, and young women are expected to perform sex acts to advance both behind closed...

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Rush: “I descended to their level …”

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Posted by    Monday, March 5, 2012 at 12:13pm

Rush started off by joking that his phone line was so busy he couldn’t cancel advertising on his own show for Two If By Tea, the product he produces and markets.

He then addressed his apology, and his motives.

I’ll post more, but here is a partial portion of Rush’s opening statement on...

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Food fight in the culture war

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Posted by    Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 11:52am

Tolerance.  The concept could be a bumper sticker.

But if so, it would not be welcome on the campus of Northeastern University, which just banned Chick-fil-A from campus.

From The Boston Glove via TaxProf (h/t Instapundit):

Northeastern University said yesterday that a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant will not be coming to campus, after the college’s...

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