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Jonah Goldberg: Raise the voting age?

I haven't read Jonah Goldberg's new book yet, but after seeing this interview he did with John Hawkins I think I'm going to run out and pick up a copy.

There's one part that really caught my eye.

The question involved the youth vote, with Goldberg's observation that most 18 year olds are "really dumb" prompting Hawkins to ask if the country should raise the voting age.

If I got to make policy, I would keep the voting age at 18 or maybe I'd raise it to about 25. But one thing I would definitely do is make everybody take a test. We don't say that when you turn 16 you can drive, we say when you turn 16 you're eligible to drive, which means you have to pass a test in order to be able to drive. Immigrants have to take a test and know the three branches of government, who the Founding Fathers are; they have to know about the Bill of Rights. They have to know those things. It seems to me that if immigrants have to know that stuff to become citizens and be able to vote, then I don't see any principled objections why citizens who are born here shouldn't have to take a similar test to be able to vote. I generally think that voting is too easy in this country and that if people want to value their citizenship, we should make it a little harder because things that are harder, we value more.

Amen, Brother.

Now before you start screaming "Fourteenth Amendment!" and "Voting Rights Act!", allow me to explain.

The stuff he's talking about? We used to teach it in school. Yup, back before political correctness and the need to protect little Johnny's feelings became the paramount mission of our school systems it was necessary for kids to learn actual American history. Warts and all. Responsibility wasn't a dirty word. Hard work was expected. There was a seriousness amongst the citizenry which seems to have gone almost completely lacking today.

There's a whole host of reasons why our youth have devolved into a bunch of jabbering ignoramuses ("ignoramii?") — the sixties, feminism, drugs, free love, Comedy Central, the list goes on. And of course the media's complete abdication of their traditional watchdog / adversarial role.

Somewhere along the line we stopped teaching kids how to think and just started telling them what to think. And therein lies the road to totalitarianism. Express the "wrong" opinion today; see how far it gets you.

On the other hand, try going through life with a deficit of critical thinking skills and you might end up in a roadside ditch.

P.J. O'Rourke once wrote, "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." Giving those teenage boys a ballot and telling them to pick a government is equally as bad.

Goldberg again:

Or to put more directly — where have all the grownups gone?

Our society is infantilized. And the ruling elite likes it that way.

I'm currently reading a historical account of Cicero's tenure as Consul of Rome. It's fascinating, not just for the political intrique, but for how much serious effort the Romans put into their elections. Soaring oratory! Debates which were more like duels, except with words. There was dignity in voting, it being a solemn duty not lightly exercised. It took time, you had to travel, and stand on line. All day.

We Americans fetishize the ability to vote far more than we value the wisdom which comes with understanding what it is that we are voting for. Early voting. Internet voting. Absentee voting. Might as well be afterthought voting for all the deliberation most folks put into it.

Just look at the brouhaha over voter ID laws. Getting an ID is too hard! Well you know what? Tough. You can't visit your congressman without a photo ID, why on earth should we let you choose a congressman before proving you're at least intelligent enough to navigate the bureaucracy at the DMV? At a minimum the trip will give you an appreciation of just how ridiculous most of the legislation and regulations that congressman imposes on you really are.

David Brinkley once suggested we move election day to April 15th. I'll take it one better, only citizens who actually pay taxes should be allowed to vote. If you're living off the public teat you don't get to vote yourself a bigger piece of my pie. In the U.S. of Wy the only voter ID needed is a W-2 and a tax return.

Serves to focus the mind, it does. Add in Jonah's citizenship test and we're back on track to an informed and responsible electorate. When you expect more from yourself, you'll demand more from those you've chosen to represent you.

Note that I didn't say "lead you."

We are the leaders. We The People. Three simple words, with two centuries of proud and noble tradition behind them. Pray that we are up to the task.

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Happy Fifth Blogaversary to me!

Five years. Five years ago today I started this blog.

You're welcome!

Stats — 2385 posts, a little over 800,000 hits, almost 1,300 Twitter followers, and my Networked Blogs / Facebook "likes" stuck at 99. Would it be too much to ask for one more Facebook liker? Just one. Please?

Click the damn button!

Or maybe it's stuck at 99. Kinda like the odometer on an old Pinto.

I used to obsess about my stats. Now I'm calmer. Or so the voices in my head tell me.

Rambling, I am.

Glad you're here though. Five years is a long time. On the internet it's an eternity, considering the click-click-click and click some more mantra of most web surfers. (Do we still call people "web surfers?" Or is there a new, hip term now? Nobody ever accused me of being hip!) So thanks for sticking around, and coming back.

Know what's cool? When someone comes up to me in the supermarket and says "love your blog." Alas there's also the "Wysocki, you ignorant slut!" contingent as well; but enough about my wife.

I'm kidding dear!

Looking ahead to the next five years, I hear there's an election coming up. Maybe I'll look into that, in between keeping tabs on Tim Tebow and the Jets. Superbowl here we come! Hey, it'll be in the Meadowlands in 2014; maybe I can score a ticket. I was worried about freezing my butt off since there's no dome, but the Global Warming dudes tell me winter's been canceled until every American buys a Chevy Volt and lives in a solar-powered yurt.

So long as the yurt has WiFi, you'll still have WyBlog.

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Obama budget plan defeated 99 - 0 in the Senate

The Obamessiah failed U.S. Budgeting 101. The plan he touted during his State of the Union speech, the economic framework he's counting on for Hope And Change V2.0, his hand-crafted schematic for debt reduction and massive tax increases, can't pass muster with even a single Senator.

It went down in flames today, 99 to 0.

They don't teach budgeting (or economics) in Community Organizer school.

Harry Reid doesn't have any Democrat alternative, so he'll use parliamentary tricks to ensure Paul Ryan's sound, sensible, serious plan never makes it to the floor.

It's been more than 1100 days since the do-nothing Senate has passed a budget.

Democrats call that leadership.

We call it SCOAMF.

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Ashley Dupre: from escort to entrepreneur

I imagine she's got a good head for business. Former escort Ashley Dupre is going legit, with an upscale lingerie and swimwear boutique in Red Bank, NJ.

There's a website — Femme by Ashley — although pictures of the one-time Playboy model won't be featured.

Everyone deserves a second chance. But I suppose if Eliot Spitzer shows up with his new girlfriend things might get a little awkwward.

And on the plus side, a quick 5 minutes of Internet research turned up one interesting fact about the new and improved Ms. Dupre. She's a Jets fan!

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Why voting "not Romney" would be a disaster for America

Some of my libertarian friends are proudly proclaiming their intent to vote "not Romney" come November. They're standing on principle dontcha know. Since the Republicans didn't nominate Ron Paul nobody else is good enough for their tastes.

Um, OK. Line up behind Gary Johnson. He won't win. There, I said it. Gary Johnson will never be president of the United States. Neither will Ron Paul. They took their shot during the primaries. They lost. In the general election they'll get creamed.

I was a Rick Perry guy. He lost too. Should I take my marbles and go home? Or should I try to influence the presumptive GOP nominee to listen to Governor Perry, and weigh his advice?

In other words, which of the two candidates is more likely to seek out and consider conservative (and libertarian) viewpoints?

Every vote for Johnson or Paul (or Nader or Donald Duck) is one less vote for the only guy who stands between us and four more years of Obamunism. All those things you guys say Romney might do? Allow me to let you in on a little secret — Obama is already doing stuff that's worse. In a second term he says he'll have "more flexibility." Trust me, that's not going to be good for America.

Doesn't the idea of a further leftward shift scare you guys even a little?

Because it terrifies me.

UPDATE 16 May 2012 16:34:
Adrienne agrees with me.

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The Obamacare dominos fall: Franciscan University drops health insurance

Barack Obama's war on the Catholic Church has claimed its first scalp.

Kathleen Sebelius was seen cackling hysterically as Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz danced a jig under the Capitol dome. Their evil plan is working.

Soon Catholicism will be marginalized, and Americans will worship the one true Obamessiah, provider of the free stuff and champion of the Hollywood sodomite elite. In his name they will supplicate, and upon his visage they will gaze as their liberty is suborned to the power of the Democratic Party.

A new messenger of perpetual dependency has emerged — Patricia Henry (played in the never-ending Obama biopic by Sandra Fluke) — proclaiming "give me free birth control or give me death!"

Alas in the land of eternal narcissism, death is reserved for the unborn.

And thus it was written: As Dear Leader hath decreed, so shall it be done. Thou shalt have no savior but Obama. Honor thy Independent Payment Advisory Board and thy unionized caregiver political action committee. Keep holy the solstice. And remember, Thou Shalt Not Vote Republican.

And of course coveting thy neighbor's wife is encouraged, and thy neighbor's goods so long as he is vilified as a member of the 1%.

Our children will never know freedom. They'll never know responsibility either. And what they don't know can't derail the dystopian future our Obamunist overlords hath established.

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As Obama goes gay, more states are in play

I had a fellow come up to me over the weekend, he's a die-hard Democrat, big Obama booster, never voted for a Republican in his life. First thing out of his mouth — what the hell was Obama thinking with this gay "marriage" thing? To say my friend is pissed off would be an understatement. He knows the issue's a stinker.

The latest CBS News / New York Times poll shows he's not alone in thinking that.

According to the survey, conducted May 11-13, 46 percent of registered voters say they would vote for Romney, while 43 percent say they would opt for Mr. Obama. Romney's slight advantage remains within the poll's margin of error, which is plus or minus four percentage points.

Except when you drill down into the data the really interesting numbers come out.

Romney is up with Women? But…but we've been told that Romney, Rush Limbaugh, and the GOP HATE women!

And

You mean this poll has more democrats than republicans, In fact 70% of the poll (75% unweighted) respondents are not republicans and not only is Ronney leading but he is leading among women?

Yet another example of what Glenn Reynolds calls #NarrativeFail. Add in blowback from Black churches and the once-vaunted Obama electoral machine seems dangerously close to coming off the rails.

Meanwhile Gallop released their state-by-state presidential approval numbers, and translating them into an electoral map spells D-O-O-M for our first gay president.

Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers yesterday, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.

So naturally last night Obama doubled down on unnatural marriage, calling for repeal of DOMA while wooing LGBT donors in Manhattan.

When that doesn't work, and unless you live in a New York Times induced bubble you know it's not going to work, he'll probably dump Joe Biden in favor of Jim "I am a Gay American" McGreevey. Hey, once you go gay, you may as well go all the way!

They could call their campaign "Modern Bromance". Or, with a nod to Chris Matthews, "Hope and Evolve".

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TSA, keeping us safe from Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger got groped by the TSA.

Because if Henry Kissinger isn't viewed as a potential threat, the terrorists have won.

TSA is a joke.

Sadly, the joke is on us.

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New Jersey's government-subsidized solar energy "market" needs more subsidies

Solar energy in New Jersey needs a bailout.

A "market?" Yes, a market for subsidies. Which of course translates into higher electricity prices for you and me.

That market works because electric companies must buy solar credits, called SRECs, from panel owners, or produce their own solar power.

Gee, government holds a gun to their heads, and thus the "market works."

But when you subsidize something, the Law of Unintended Consequences rears it's ugly head.

Who'da thunk it? Subsidize solar panels and you get too many solar panels!

"Many, many jobs being lost, many good companies going out of business, and we don't know why," warned Lyle Rawlings, head of the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents more than 100 companies in New Jersey.

Of course you know "why." The subsidies dried up, because solar energy is not cost-effective. It can't compete in an open marketplace.

So, what's a regulator to do?

What "signal" is that? One that says we're not fans of the law of supply and demand? There's a glut of solar panels. So naturally the solution is to pass a law forcing people to buy more solar panels.

The bill would have raised SREC prices by increasing the number utilities are required to buy, speeding up a planned increase already unfolding through 2026.

There's the heavy hand of government, requiring folks to buy a commodity that in actuality no one wants to buy.

Here's a better idea. Let solar compete on the merits. Either it turns a profit, or it doesn't. Yeah, I know, that's crazy talk.

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In humor there is truth, here's a great joke from today's church bulletin

Monsignor Desmond gets two thumbs up for printing this joke in today's bulletin:

A layman walked up to a Franciscan and a Jesuit and asked, "How many novenas must I say to get a Mercedes Benz?" The Franciscan asked, "What's a Mercedes Benz?" The Jesuit asked, "What's a novena?"

Father Z would approve!

Georgetown University, I think they're talking about you.

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Mothers Day needs more mothers

What hath feminism wrought?

Quite possibly the irreversible decline of Western Civilization.

The 55,000,000 babies murdered since Roe v. Wade were unavailable for comment.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.

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Justice is blind, and so is the Second Amendment: Blind man can keep his guns

A blind Rockaway, NJ gun collector can keep his guns. NJ Superior Court Judge Thomas Manahan ruled that the Second Amendment does indeed apply to all Americans, even blind gun collectors.

The anti-gun zealots really put Mr. Hopler through the wringer. An avid collector all his life, he lost his sight to diabetes in 1991. The authorities immediately moved to revoke his Second Amendment rights, the beginnings of a vendetta which culminated in this latest victory for Mr. Hopler. At stake here were the firearms police seized in 2008 when he accidentally shot himself in the shin while cleaning one of his guns.

The drunkard charge was bogus from the get-go, based solely on the hearsay testimony of a convicted burglar. Trumped up charges are good enough for the gun-grabbers, but alas not particularly relevant when compared to Mr. Hopler's Constitutional rights.

Guns aren't scary. Having your Constitutional rights stolen by bureaucratic fiat, that's scary. It shouldn't require three separate court decisions to affirm the equal protection of the Second Amendment. But sadly, there are no "emanations of penumbras" at the Brady Campaign.

Fortunately the Constitution has a friend in Judge Manahan.

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Mitt Romney's "Mothers Day" ad offends my favorite feminist

It turns out that National Offend A Feminist Week is so darn much fun even Mitt Romney is getting in on the action. His latest ad, entitled "Mothers Day", got my favorite feminist's knickers in a twist.

Yup, that's the main purpose of Mothers Day, so PunditMom can skip one day of laundry duty. Does the washing machine even fit onto her motherhood pedestal?

Works her fingers to the bone, she does.

Well, maybe when she's not carping about Republicans being mean to Michelle Obama, aka SuperMom. Sarah Palin's wardrobe was fair game, but notice Mrs. Obama's five hundred dollar sneakers and you're a racist as well as a misogynist. And Ann Romney wears fancy blouses!

But here's the best part. PunditMom is really upset because calling out slimy attacks on Ann Romney is a distraction.

They forget that people tire of these distractions, especially when it's about candidates' spouses. They're not the one's we're electing, so maybe they should save their campaign dollars and leave these two high profile moms out of it on Mother's Day.

Distractions are only OK when it's her team doing the distracting. (cough, gay "marriage", cough)

Romney's ad is effective precisely because it dramatically illustrates just how divergent the two camps' views of motherhood really are.

On the Republican side we have Ann Romney, raising five boys without complaint, joyfully nurturing them through the pain of her own personal trials.

On the Democrat side they have Sandra Fluke, demanding free birth control so as to eliminate her need to contemplate motherhood at all, while she cavorts recklessly with whatever partner suits her fancy.

Yeah, I can see how pointing out the futility of the feminist ethos could be a major bummer when they're trying to garner the soccer mom vote.

So I stand in awe of Mitt Romney, who hands down wins the title of Feminist Offender Of The Week, just because he dared to praise motherhood. I can't wait for his next ad, extolling the virtues of baseball and apple pie. There's gotta be some kind of Title IX angle in it that'll drive the feminuts even battier.

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NJ state test requires 3rd graders to disclose their deepest secret

Imagine you were designing a standardized test for 3rd graders. One that every public school has to administer, with the results tabulated by unionized bureaucrats in the state Department of Education.

Times tables? Sure.

Name the fifty states? Probably.

Measure reading comprehension? Of course.

"Reveal your deepest, darkest secret, and tell why it's hard for you to keep?"

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Yes, that is an actual question on this year's NJ ASK exam. An exam developed by the finest minds our public education system can muster.

A spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Education says any question that goes on the NJ ASK test is first developed with a test group -Measurement Inc.- they administer the NJ ASK test….then it's reviewed by a New Jersey Department of Education expert — a content expert — and then it goes through a teachers advisory group — to see is it appropriate, etc — if it passes through that, they do test groups — for a couple of years — field testing — they review the results, and if it passes then it goes on as an actual test question…

Nothing is left to chance. Nothing.

So what possible educational rubric necessitates exposing a child's secrets to Big Brother? And how will his teacher, his principal, and the educrat thought police use the revelations?

Only for the child's betterment, of course!

As an added bonus they're conditioning our children to erase the bounds of privacy. The state should know all. You don't want to fail the test, do you? Tell us everything. What 3rd grader is going to disappoint his teacher?

Yeah, creepy doesn't begin to cover it.

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Chris Christie vetoed New Jersey's Obamacare Exchange!

In theory the idea of a health insurance exchange sounds intriguing. Who doesn't want to save money, right? But when you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it, sometimes the stuff you find out isn't copacetic.

In states that implement an Obamacare insurance exchange employers are whacked with a $3,000 per employee tax. Hey, somebody's gotta pay for the occupods' treatments for TB and scabies! But taxing hiring? In a recession? Only a Democrat would do that.

So today NJ Governor Chris Christie vetoed New Jersey's Obamacare exchange.

I do believe that VP slot is within reach.

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Already offending feminists, "Rush Babes For America" more popular than NOW

Serendipity comes to National Offend A Feminist Week.

On Tuesday Rush Limbaugh launched the "Rush Babes for America" Facebook page. The group was organized as a counterweight to the far left National Organization of Women, who are behind a boycott of the Rush Limbaugh radio program.

The nattering nags at NOW are not amused. Which might be relevant, if they weren't a bunch of hapless harridans harping helplessly. Perhaps NOW could step back from the abortion abyss long enough to recognize the 53,321,000 women who've given up on looking for work in Barack Obama's America.

Or not. Apparently Sandra Fluke's birth control is more important. Which is one reason why so many Real Women aren't keen to be known as "feminists."

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Key bundler for Bob Menendez pleads guilty to making $100K in illegal contributions

The stench of curruption surrounding U.S. Senator Bob Menendez still hasn't ensnared him. But with friends like Joseph Bigica he's definitely skating on thin ice.

What is it with Democrats and tax evasion? An insurance broker, eh? Maybe he's getting ready for when Barry appoints him to run the Obamacare exchange for New Jersey. Lots of opportunity to evade taxes in a lucrative gig like that.

The Menendez campaign claimed they were "victims" of Bigica's fraud. Uh huh. A guy shows up with $100 grand in checks and they're too busy slapping him on the back to worry about where those checks came from. Come on in Joe, have a cigar, and let's talk about what we can do for you!

That's how the game is played. And Bob Menendez is a master at the game.

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Q: How will Obama's endorsement of gay "marriage" help the economy?

A: Shut up.

That's really all we need to know. Obama's launched another distraction, designed to appeal to his base, and bring wealthy gay donors back into the fold.

When Mitt Romney is inevitably hounded for a reaction he ought to point that out.

"No, we aren't better off today than we were four years ago. Next question!"

As for Barry's gutsy "evolution" on the issue — he supports it "personally" but leaves it to the states — well let's just say hooray for North Carolina.

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Butane fuel cell gadget puts two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket

Smartphone battery life isn't what we'd like it to be. My BlackBerry Torch barely lasts a whole day before I'm cozying up to a wall wart. My wife's Droid Razr needs a mid-day recharge or it's dead before bedtime.

And face it, when your phone is tethered to the wall, so are you. Somebody should market a coiled USB cable so we can at least pretend to harken back to the halcyon days of wall-mounted princess phones while our lithium ions absorb their daily dose of electrons.

Enter Lilliputian Systems and their portable butane fuel cell pocket charger.

Who knew your dad's old Zippo could be reborn as an iPhone juicer?

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Just in time for Mothers Day, it's the Patricia Krentcil Tanorexic Mom Action Figure!

HeroBuilders.com strikes again. Meet the Tanorexic Mom Action Figure! She's got a burnt sienna face and flashy golden hair. Yours for only $29.95, plus shipping and handling.

It's the perfect Mothers Day gift for your sun-worshipping beach-babe mom.

The John Boehner action figure wants her number.

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Does the Obama White House count your unborn fetus as three-fifths of a visitor?

On Tuesday it was reported that the White House visitor's bureau required pregnant women to register an unborn baby into their security system.

It is interesting that the Obama White House, a place where everyone thinks a pre-born baby is just a lump of "unviable cells" and not really a person, is now insisting that pregnant mothers must register themselves and their unborn baby on the visitor log when they visit the White House.

Well, HuffPo now has a "clarification".

So, if you're pregnant, and you sign up for a White House tour, and you think you might give birth between now and then, Barack Obama will count your unborn child as 3/5 of a person. Or something.

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Joe Biden, International Man of Gaffe-istry

Blame America First, it's the Obama - Biden way!

"When we took office, let me remind, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran. We were the problem," the vice president said. "We were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe."

Joe Biden, Gaffe-bag. Five U.N. resolution, countless diplomatic efforts, and a strong U.S. presence in the region. Yeah, that's "virtually" no pressure on Iran.

And yet, Sarah Palin wasn't qualified to be vice president?

The mind reels.

Who gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the go-ahead to pursue "peaceful" nuclear development? Hint — it was Joe Biden's big effin friend.

But at least Smart Diplomacy has led to new tougher sanctions and a unified international community, right? Right?

The visiting Iranian trade delegation started its first round of discussions with Indian representatives for increasing trade and commerce between the two countries, while overcoming the US and European sanctions against Iran.

Maybe Joe thinks they're talkin' about Slurpees.

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Feminists are the sodium chloride of the earth

Yesterday my favorite feminist gushed like a giddy schoolgirl over this Funny or Die clip.

I filed it away, because it is National Offend A Feminist Week after all, and how better to offend my favorite feminist than with logic and facts?

But then Smitty went and beat me to it.

Word.

And as he notes, the good news is that feminists are unlikely to reproduce, thus reducing the long-term prospects for their dementia. But only if we stand up now to deconstruct its obvious shortcomings, lest such feminist writings lead future generations to repeat the mistakes of their bitter spinster ancestors.

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Kicking off National Offend A Feminist Week - feminuts kick boy off girls field hockey team

Hooah! It's National Offend A Feminist Week!

Nothing warms the cockles of a feminist's heart quite like seeing girls playing on boys' sports teams. Female place kickers on the varsity football squad? You've come a long way, baby. Title IX rulez!

But when there's a boy who wants to play field hockey? Well let's just say that gender equality is definitely a one-way street.

Keeling Pilaro has been told that after two years as a member of the Southampton High School girls' team, he is now too skilled to qualify for an exemption allowing him to compete with, and against, girls next season. There are no boys' field hockey teams on Long Island.

He's too good. Feminist lawyers hate that.

Keeling's chances of winning on a Title IX argument are slim, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, because the law was established to benefit those who claim their opportunities to compete are underrepresented. Most of the time that favors women or girls, because schools provide more opportunities for boys to play athletics.

Who cares if there's no boys' field hockey team? He's got "more opportunities" to play athletics. Pick up a basketball kid and leave the little lasses alone. They might start thinking they aren't as good as you if you keep showing them that they aren't as good as you.

So in honor of National Offend A Feminist Week, here's a picture that's sure to boil the blood of every Womyn's Studies major on the Eastern Seaboard.

A boy playing field hockey. Truly an example of the right-wing War on Women.

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The French think they've voted to give themselves more of Germany's money

Socialist Francois Hollande is the new president of France. He takes the reins of power from Nicolas Sarkozy with the expectation that austerity will be a thing of the past.

As will sanity, apparently.

Socialism is the belief that you can live forever on other people's money. And the French left is joyfully singing "Jours Heureux Sont Ici A Nouveau." Why not? They're not gonna pay for it.

How long the Germans will put up with that remains to be seen. They're the only country in Europe with money, and they've already tired of bailing out the Greeks. Not to mention the Portuguese, Spaniards, and Italians. A bunch of greedy Frenchmen aren't exactly their dream date.

The world is one giant step closer to the European Union's demise. And Vladmir Putin is licking his chops in anticipation.

UPDATE 07 May 2012 09:16:
Linked by Doug Ross. Thanks!

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Moonbats choose Super Moon worship over Techno-Dazzle Obama campaign rally

Hey, where did all those cheering throngs go? Barry kicked off his re-election campaign at Ohio State University yesterday, and pretty much everyone had better things to do. The seats, they were empty.

Oops.

That didn't stop Pravda The New York Times from gushing over how "rock star" Obama brought "the techno-dazzle of an Apple product introduction."

Yeah, it must have been for that new iFail gizmo we keep hearing about.

Did I mention there were empty seats?

It's a campaign faux pas to hold an event in a room that isn't full; to promise the media a more-than-capacity crowd then fall this far short of that promise is utter incompetence. In 2008, Obama ran a near-flawless campaign, buoyed by enthusiasm and effective organizing. But it's not 2008 any more, and on day one of the 2012 campaign, Team Obama has already made an embarrassing blunder.

In 2008 he didn't have a record to run on.

And he didn't have to compete with three huge reasons to party hearty.

Karl Marx's birthday. All the commies were crowded into gloomy coffeehouses, scowling menacingly at the bourgeois tea drinkers.

Cinco de Mayo. Get your drunk on! Barry can wait until tomorrow.

And ... Super Moon!

There's a reason we call Obama's most passionately clueless supporters moonbats you know. And obviously they felt the pull of their harsh mistress, which left (almost) no one to turn out for Dear Leader's recycled pep rally.

You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

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Obama to SCOTUS: We're not smart enough to reset Medicare back to 2009's rules

The White House fired a shot across the Supreme Court's bow this week, warning they'll have to Throw Grandma From The Train if Obamacare is overturned.

The Obama administration warned the Supreme Court this week via papers filed with the Court that if Obamacare is struck down, there will be an "extraordinary disruption" in Medicare. Medicare was not discussed during the Supreme Court arguments, since it was not a Constitutional issue. This is a practical argument, not a legal one; it.' the Obama administration applying pressure to the Supremes.

An "extraordinary disruption?" To reset the Medicare rules back to what was in effect prior to March 23, 2010? Perhaps they don't remember the old rules? No worries, I'd imagine Google has a copy of them somewhere.

I'm an IT guy. Every project we implement has a "backout plan," a set of steps which revert back to the prior version in case there's a major problem.

The Medicare folks can't come up with a backout plan? Why? Aren't they smart enough?

In effect Obama is telling the Supreme Court, "We're too imcompetent to undo the damage we did." Yeah, that's a convincing argument.

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Dozens just laid off at The New York Times - lawyers, minorities hardest hit

Will the last person to leave The New York Times please turn off the lights?

More than 50 people were laid off on the corporate side. The layoffs include George Freeman, one of their well-known in-house lawyers. The worry is this is just the begginning of cuts — and that the company is putting pressure on the unions. Several of the people who were laid off were minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics.

Ooh, they're sacking minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics now. And lawyers! Things must really be serious over there.

The entire legal floor is in shock.

I love the smell of schadenfreude on a Friday afternoon…

Yes, amazingly enough, printing nothing but Obama White House propaganda does not actually result in any jobs created or saved.

A Real Newspaper might want to report on a story like that.

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Obamunism, the movie

Tomorrow Barack Obama officially kicks off his re-election bid. Because even though he's held more fundraisers than the past 5 presidents combined he hasn't really been campaigning yet.

May 5^th is also Karl Marx's birthday. We're supposed to believe that isn't a coincidence.

Or not.

Exhibit A: Obamunism, the movie.

Surely, this is already a parody; why, I doubt that even David Kahane could have created its combination of myopia, stupidity, mendacity, effrontery, and misandry so artlessly — although I suspect he will soon give it a go. "Julia" appears to have no males — certainly not a husband when, at 31, she "decides to have a child" after disporting herself sexually consequence-free in previous years, thanks to the wonders of Obamacare. (Where did "Zachary" come from — a test tube?)

"Julia" is the Obama vision for America's future. One in which cradle-to-grave socialism has replaced the American dream. Why do for yourself when Uncle Comrade Sam can do it for you? Julia is the New Soviet American Woman — at each milestone in her life there's Dear Leader to guide her along the path, and of course pick up the tab for her every need.

Left Coast Rebel piles on the mockery, complete with a more realistic alternative ending.

Barack Obama's patronizing view of America is one which is all to common among our new nomenklatura. The Marxist professors and structural feminists who control our colleges and universities make sure to inculcate a visceral hatred of traditional American values into every student they encounter. And so each May a fresh crop of automatons emerges from campus eager to join the battle against our greedy capitalist oppressive patriarchy.

No wonder Obama is so gung-ho to have every student attend college. What amazes me is that parents willingly shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in pursuit of a diploma which is in reality nothing more than a certificate of progressive brainwashing. Drink the bio-degradeable Kool-Aid and pick up an application for Food Stamps on your way out.

Curiously though in all those classes on fairness and gender equality and the evils of global capitalism they never seem to mention communism's body count. American imperialism is what ails the world, not forced poverty, mass sterilizations, centrally-planned famines, and more than 100 million deaths.

Stupid kulaks, we don't know what's good for us. That's why we need Barack Obama to show us the way.

Exhibit B: Seen on Facebook.

I can't count how many times I've actually heard that "argument" from a liberal.

If Mitt Romney can't philosophically annihilate such sophistry, if the American people fail to see there's no future along the road to serfdom, if somehow the siren song of socialism lures the country into four more years of Obama, then we no longer deserve the legacy of Ben Franklin's republic.

It's now or never. Will we wake up on November 6^th to a rebirth of freedom and liberty, or will we blindly have sold our children into bondage?

The choice is ours. I pray we choose wisely.

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Amid the latest round of dismal economic news there is one small bright spot

That bright spot? It's named "Spot."

Just in to the WyBlog news desk — the demand for dog meat is now at an all-time high. The country's solitary Indonesian grocery store has seen their online sales take off like a beagle chasing a jackrabbit after it was revealed that President Obama eats dogs.

Bo the White House dog was unavailable for comment. But Administration spokestool Jay Carney did say there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that President Obama's Cinco de Mayo luncheon menu will feature Chihuahua Chimichangas.

Elsewhere today, retail sales sank to a new low last month as consumers held back on spending amid renewed worries about the nation's economic outlook. However sales of a new Obama bumper sticker seem to be picking up.

Adding to the gloom U.S. worker productivity dropped by the most in a year as companies continued to muddle along with their existing workforces rather than hire additional employees.

Of course the Obama spin machine (aka "the media") wants you to pay no attention to the bad news behind the curtain. They'd rather we read about Ann Romney's "expensive" blouse (cheaper than Michelle Obama's ugly sweater!) and Young Obama in love, wearing a sarong while reciting poetry to his composite girlfriend.

And if the country goes to the dogs, Que Sarong, Sarong.

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