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No “gangs,” no problem.

Refusing entry on state property based on race. (Photo source: Hawaii Reporter)

Secularism run amok.

Don’t mention Tibet!

The vocabulary of the grievance-mongers.

Just when you think identity politics can’t parody itself any better (or worse), along comes a new set of race-mongers with an even more absurd set of grievances. A story in today’s Washington Post reads like a lead story in The Onion (via HA Headlines): When Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president last year, [...]

Alienation.

Un-buried.

Dick Lamm (left); Mike McGarry of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (center) and me, Jan. 8, 2003, Denver, Colorado. I have had the pleasure of speaking and debating alongside former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm. In Colorado five years ago, we took on an open-borders contingent that was pushing for the illegal alien ID card [...]

Crushing of dissent.

Sorry.

Subversive sweets.

“Un-American Girl Doll.”

Removing the reason from the season.

The persecution of Joey Vento.

Fill in the blank.

Enter stage left.

You can’t say what?

S.O.S.

And then there were none.

“Don’t mess with tradition.”

Lit up. Update: Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks.

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”

Rorschach test.

“The fear of being discriminatory led them to fail to discriminate between the appropriate and the abusive.”

Baltimore-ese: “A-rabs and Arabs.”

An important media advisory from the AAJA: Only they can use ethnic descriptors. Everyone else: Back off! Too. Ridiculous. Reader Doug in Colorado writes: Unbelievable. If there were any consistency, they would be lauding the fact that he made great strides in bringing greater diversity to the ranks of mass murderers, a segment in which [...]

In March, I linked to the story of DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek, who was suspended for allegedly offending Muslim students. John Ruberry at Marathon Pundit has been following the case and has an exclusive on a slander suit just filed by Klocek against the school. More at The American Thinker. Background here. AP brief [...]

Remember this embattled cross? When last I blogged about the beloved war memorial on a mountaintop in the San Diego area, a local atheist seemed on the verge of winning a protacted legal battle to tear the cross down. Now, it’s headed for a citywide vote. After an emotional six-hour hearing in which veterans pleaded [...]

Harvard U.’s Larry Summers pays penance for his politically incorrect remarks about women and science: Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, under fire for comments on women in the sciences, said the school would spend $50 million over 10 years to promote diversity on its faculty and reform the way women in science and engineering are [...]