The patriarchy is keeping Naomi Wolf up at night.
Young girls in Yemen are forced into marriages with adult men, lesbians in South Africa face “corrective rape,” and women throughout the Muslim world suffer indignity, violence, and death under Sharia law. But that’s not the sort of horrific oppression interrupting Wolf’s beauty rest.
The “next big issue” [...]
The Sleep-Deprived Housewives of Victimhood County
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Feminist Hawk Rising!
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
I would like to introduce everyone to a dear friend of mine. This is Feminist Hawk. She’s a new associate editor here at NewsReal Blog. She’s in charge of editing our new Feminist Hawks’ Nest sub-blog.
Feminist Hawk was created by my friend, the extraordinary artist Bosch Fawstin, creator of Pigman and author of such works [...]
Kill Willy?
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
On Friday, February 26, The San Diego Times announced:
“SeaWorld San Diego will resume its killer whale-based Believe show Saturday, just three days after a fatal incident at a sister park in Orlando Florida.”
The “fatal incident,” was the brutal killing of 40-year-old Dawn Brancheau by the largest killer whale in captivity, Tilikum, who already drowned one [...]
Hey Maher! How D’ya Like These Dumb Animals? Luntz Focus Group Shows Voters Engaged, Informed, Upset
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
So long, death panels. Meet the new Healthcare-embattled American populace — captive to political theatre for the better part of a year and increasingly fluent on the issues at stake.
Frank Luntz, pollster and author of “What the American People Really Want…Really,” appeared on Fox News’ Hannity with a focus group of reportedly half Democrat, half [...]
From the Interviews of David Horowitz: February 27, 2010
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
– In Depth, CSPAN
Tune in tomorrow for the conclusion, Part 14 of this interview.
Part 1 here.
Part 2 here.
Part 3 here.
Part 4 here.
Part 5 here.
Part 6 here.
Part 7 here.
Part 8 here.
Part 9 here.
Part 10 here.
Part 11 here.
Part 12 here.
If you have a favorite Horowitz quote you want to highlight for others then click here to submit. [...]
Misguided Wives and Powerless Husbands
February 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The new brouhaha about parents Joseph and Rebecca Reyes, one of whom is Catholic and the other Jewish, is a classic example of two broken institutions in America: the judicial system — and marriage.
The problem with the judicial system is simple: Judges have taken their power and run with it. As one lawyer from Rochester, [...]
Andrew Klavan, Liberalism Exposed: Beyond the Elitist, Preening America-Hating Stereotypes
February 26, 2010 By 3 Comments
Exile and the New Russia
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The latest Vanity Fair carries an amusing and appropriately graphic account of the life and death of Exile, a now-defunct, Moscow-based English language newspaper run by American expatriates that managed to piss off a lot of people – usually, but not always, for bad reasons – in its short and mostly obscure decade-long existence. As [...]
Van Jones Award Reveals NAACP’s Leftism
February 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Van Jones, the former “green jobs czar” for the Obama Administration, was honored with an Image Award from the NAACP. According to NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, Jones was honored as “an American treasure” who is “the most misunderstood man in America.”
This just cements what most already figured: the NAACP nowadays is, in essence, a [...]
