This popular post was originally published December 17, 2010. Every year, Catholics renew their baptismal vows and reject, among other “snares of the Devil,” something called “the glamor of evil.” The old dead white guys who penned those vows predated People magazine and Day of the Locust by centuries, but intuited a profound truth about [...]

Every year, Catholics renew their baptismal vows and reject, among other “snares of the Devil,” something called “the glamor of evil.” The old dead white guys who penned those vows predated People magazine and Day of the Locust by centuries, but intuited a profound truth about human nature: We get more of whatever we glamorize. [...]

‘Twas the night before Kwanzaa And all through the ‘hood, Maulana Karenga was up to no good. He’d tortured a woman and spent time in jail. He needed a new scam that just wouldn’t fail. (“So what if I stuck some chick’s toe in a vice? Nobody said revolution was nice!”) The Sixties were over. [...]

One reason I didn’t go to university? Everybody promised me that Ronald Reagan was going to blow up the world. So why waste my time and money on a degree I’d never live to use, right? That was my excuse, as a GenX “slacker”, anyhow. I later learned that all through history, seers and soothsayers [...]

Editor’s Note: Kathy Shaidle has been taking a short hiatus from NewsReal Blog to focus on some other writing projects. She’ll be back soon but in the mean time we’re reprinting one of her biggest hits, originally published October 17 here. In my own defense: a) I was drunk the whole time, and b) I [...]

I define “social justice” as “the stubborn application of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.” This week up here in Canada, we learned about a new taxpayer sponsored project that fits that definition perfectly. Having made themselves into international laughingstocks by prosecuting Ezra Levant for reprinting the “Mohammed cartoons“, the Albert Human Rights Commission (AHRC) evidently [...]

“But the biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that they keep us not only from the truth but also from confronting our faults and problems. …This way of thinking relates any given problem to external elements, and thus does not [lead] to a rational policy to confront the problem. He who speaks of ghosts [as [...]

This was the most popular featured post of last week and was originally published here on November 3. I’m not sure how I got along before I discovered Investor’s Business Daily. All I know is, sometime after 9/11, I started reading IBD and encountered, in their op-ed pages,  a robust, refreshing alternative to the wimpy [...]

“But the biggest problem with conspiracy theories is that they keep us not only from the truth but also from confronting our faults and problems. …This way of thinking relates any given problem to external elements, and thus does not [lead] to a rational policy to confront the problem. He who speaks of ghosts [as [...]

“Liberal Racism” has a category of its very own at Discover The Networks, and for good reason. I bet we all have our war stories about the insensitive, appalling and just plain jaw-dropping stuff we’ve heard come out of the mouths of “sensitive, enlightened” leftists (even though, according to them, we’re the “racist” ones.) For [...]