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Man, 24, ‘beat his girlfriend’s one-year-old boy to death with a leather belt because he urinated on him during a diaper change’

Last week I sifted through hundreds of articles I had written looking for the worst examples of monstrous mothers who abused their children. I discovered dozens of stories where children suffered helplessly at the hands of their mom’s boyfriends as well. Today I found this story where a 24-year-old man allegedly beat his girlfriend’s baby […]

Revealed: Gardening Is Racist

According to the Thought Police, racism is everywhere – even on gardening shows like Britain’s Gardeners’ Question Time: Dr Ben Pitcher, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Westminster, claimed the programme’s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promoted nationalist and fascist beliefs. Speaking on another Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, […]

Armed Guards at Strip Mall Save North St. Louis Businesses From Looters

18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by police officers in an encounter that still isn’t entirely clear — and the fine, upstanding members of his community reacted by looting and setting fire to businesses. Two businesses were spared, though, probably thanks to the armed guards positioned in front of the building. Last night several businesses in […]

White Teacher Wins Reverse Discrimination Lawsuit

If a white principal was found to have discriminated against a black teacher, what’s the likelihood that they would be able to keep their job? Principal of Largo High School Angelique Simpson-Marcus, who is black, has kept her job after teacher Jon Everhart, who is white, successfully sued the Prince George County school board because […]

ISIS Has A Playbook. And It’s Ultra Violent

Good investigative work by the Washington Post’s Terrance McCoy Last week, as the forces of the Islamic State crept within 40 miles of Irbil, fear settled over the urbane Kurdish capital. People had heard of the militants’ brutality – of the crucifixions, the beheadings, the mass killings. They were understandably frightened, Kurdish journalist Namo Abdulla […]

Obama Vacations As The World Burns

Hey, don’t blame me for the headline: blame either Dana Milbank or a Washington Post editor for it, as Milbank notes that the optics of Obama playing golf and vacationing are not particularly good (Washington Post) President Obama must really be teed off. Hillary Rodham Clinton, his once-loyal secretary of state and his likeliest successor, […]

Attacking Achievement

New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, like so many others who call themselves “progressive,” is gung-ho to solve social problems. In fact, he is currently on a crusade to solve an educational problem that doesn’t exist, even though there are plenty of other educational problems that definitely do exist. The non-existent problem is the use […]

How Obama’s Leadership Cripples America (Part 2)

In 2008, Americans appointed a president they expected to unify the country, lift the oppressed and restore America’s economy and relations in the world. But almost halfway through his second term in office, Americans are more polarized, and the oppressed are more hamstrung. And our country is more unstable than ever among the global community; […]

Fact-Challenged and Extreme? Do You Really Want to Go There, Mr. President?

President Obama claims that the extremism and reality-challenged nature of his political opponents explain his limitless policy failures, which, of course, he also refuses to acknowledge. This is truly rich but nothing new. Obama told New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, “What you’ve seen with our politics … is increasingly politicians are rewarded for taking […]

Common Core’s Growing Unpopularity

The highly acclaimed school standards called Common Core are becoming so unpopular that they may soon be politically untouchable. The critics are piling on from Glenn Beck to the Wall Street Journal, with senior academics and activist parents in-between. The latest is a detailed criticism of the mathematics standards by a prize-winning math professor at […]

DiFi’s Tortured Logic on CIA Interrogations

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is a woman on a mission. As chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, she has set out to prove the illogical — that enhanced interrogation techniques used for a time under the George W. Bush administration constituted torture: and: that they never produced useful intelligence. Americans are supposed to believe that top terrorists are […]

Confronting ISIS — ‘It takes an army to defeat an army’

When liberal Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and the conservative former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich agree on something, attention should be paid. Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said last Friday that the U.S. must confront the jihadists who call themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL). “It takes an […]

Woman, 44, kidnapped, kept inside squalid garage for 2 days without food or water after co-worker overheard her talk about her savings.

My dad always told me to keep my personal business to myself and never share my financial situation with acquaintances, now I understand what he meant. Two couples in California kidnapped, gagged and bound a 44-year-old woman inside a squalid garage, demanding that her husband pay up a six-figure ransom he couldn’t possibly afford after […]

‘That’s my boy!’: Shocking photograph of a SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy brandishing the head of a Syrian soldier – and his jihadist father who took it

It’s been said again and again: Islam is a religion of death and violence, as much as liberals try to insist that it’s actually peaceful and beautiful. There has been international shock and outrage after a photo surfaced of a young boy holding up the head of a Syrian soldier beheaded by jihadists. The uncle […]