The Feminist U-Turn

A recent story in The Guardian illustrated an interesting trend in the feminism/women’s rights world. That trend, appearing right in the headline, is a new contextualization of the concept of victimhood. Feminism has traditionally been about empowerment,...

Raging At Futility

The recent San Bernadino shootings spawned an interesting twist on the long-running debate about gun ownership and gun violence. It didn’t just rekindle the gun debate in the liberal press, it stoked that fire and fanned those flames to unprecedented levels. The...

Safe Attacks on Dangerous Targets

I noticed something interesting about the press coverage of the San Bernadino shootings. Before any facts came out, before we found out that the shooters were Muslims and ethnically Pakistani and, before the talk of radicalization hit the news, the press was freely...

Doing… Something

The Left wasted absolutely no time pouncing on the most recent mass shooting horror in its zeal to punish the law abiding and undo the Second Amendment. Before we knew anything beyond the fact of a mass shooting situation in progress, Obama declared: there are some...

Euphemizing Mass Shootings

In comments made regarding the recent Planned Parenthood shooting, President Obama stated: I say this every time we have one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other countries. This statement, being offered in Paris, less than three weeks after...