Author: Ron Coleman

It’s easy enough to be horrified with what the more severe Muslim regimes are doing to humans trying to just live these days. In Saudi Arabia, the news has been about a woman victimized by rapists who was punished for immodest behavior. I wrote earlier that this does not mean that Saudi Arabia becomes, as […]

NewsBusters prints this excerpt from the transcript of NPR’s review of “Redacted” (via Instapundit): The rape scene has led to a familiar charge, that De Palma is a misogynist who relishes violence against women. . . . Another charge is that he’s anti-American or anti-troops. But it’s an act of sympathy to suggest that soldiers […]

James Taranto pulls another one out of the “zero tolerance watch” file: Travis Grigsby loves playing drums, but he and his friend Alex Coday weren’t able to play for two weeks after they were suspended. It started after the band’s performance at a football game. Some kids on the drum line said they were talking […]

Christopher Hitchens (via Instapundit): “[T]he cabinet,” according to the Nov. 18 New York Times, “has sent legislation to the Parliament softening the de-Baathification law that had prevented former Baathists’ working in government jobs.” I wonder how many people, reading that ordinary sentence about “the cabinet” and “the Parliament,” as reported also in independent Iraqi media, […]

Michelle Obama, the highly accomplished wife of Senator Barack Obama, and I are Princeton classmates. Did you know that? Me neither, until fairly recently. I’m quite sure she doesn’t know it even now! She’s got plenty on her mind and, I’m guessing, like most of you doesn’t even know where I went to school! And […]

Dahlia Lithwick writes perceptively about how critical it is that litigants — especially in family court — feel they have been heard by the court: Last week in Las Vegas, Reno, Nev., millionaire Darren Mack shocked the court by pleading guilty, midtrial, to killing his estranged wife, Charla, in June 2006. . . . In […]

What does a small-c-conservative Jew do with the Saudis? Their latest exercise (or perhaps merely their latest one to draw worldwide attention) in medieval brutality, in which a female rape victim has been “sentenced” for her “crime” (see here for a more precise explanation of what really happened) is already well known on the Web. […]

All the big bloggers are all over the politics of why the “what’s so funny ’bout peace, love and understanding” moving pictures are bleeding money. But for me, it’s about the art, see? No, not the art of movies. I haven’t been in a movie theater in over a decade. No, I mean the art […]

Socialized education not only fails its constituency miserably — witness today’s utterly uneducated, and essentially ineducable, masses. As this article at Chicago Boyz aptly points out, it and its class allies also constantly sing a refrain blaming the very imbecility of the supposedly brainless proletariat, and its easy manipulation by The Man (currently embodied by […]

If the government can do for health care what it’s done in California for firefighting — acknowledged by even the meanest libertarian / free-marketer as a core mission of any government — then be very afraid of the Hillary Clinton Administration. And eat a lot of apples. More: “We are overwhelmed with bureaucratic regulations and […]

The AP has a very long story about improprieties (to say the least) between teachers and students in the schools. The consensus seems to be that it’s an intractable problem, and an old one, and that given the mobility of people it’s hard to keep predators out of the schools. What the AP ignores, probably […]

I used to think the eventuality of a Hillary Clinton presidential run was “no problem,” because surely the brain trust at the tippy-top of the GOP has been working out this strategy, utilizing higher math, the alignment of the stars, dumpster-diving and elaborate drills and simulations, for a decade. Her candidacy, I figured — as […]