Racist Toddlers
A bizarre story in the London Telegraph, "Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist,'" is getting some play, thus far only from conservative blogs. The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 7, 2008 15:20
Sweetie-gate
Barack Obama has a "bad habit" of addressing "all kinds of people" as "Sweetie" in casual conversation, although he's trying to quit. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama has apologized to WXYZ reporter Peggy Agar for calling her "sweetie" during a campaign stop Wednesday in Sterling Heights. Obama apologized in a voicemail he left on Agar's cell phone at 3:16 p.m: "Hi Peggy. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 15, 2008 08:04
David Horowitz at CPAC
CPAC presented the Blogger of the Year Award to Ace of Spades and the Journalist of the Year Award to Mark Tapcott, editorial page director of the Washington Examiner and proprietor of Tapscott's Copy Desk. Both are quite deserving. I got there early and was "treated" to a 20 minute rant by David Horowitz on the evils of ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 8, 2008 14:09
Blacks Turning on Clintons?
Several prominent black leaders are assailing Bill and Hillary Clinton for their use of racially insensitive language in their campaign against Barack Obama, Ben Smith reports for The Politico. A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 12, 2008 08:36
Ron Paul, Racist?
There has long been a buzz about the fact that Ron Paul's vast network of supporters includes white supremacists and anti-Semites. Paul has disassociated himself from them and he's shrugged it off as the nature of a bottom-up organization. While I'm by no means a Paul booster, that has struck me as quite reasonable. Today, though, TNR (the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 8, 2008 18:38
GET OSAMA Tag Banned in New York
New York has retroactively decided that a man's GET OSAMA vanity tags are offensive and can not be displayed on his vehicle. The federal government may have a $25 million reward for fugitive terrorist Osama bin Laden, but a retired city cop says the Department of Motor Vehicles has banned his "GETOSAMA" vanity license plates as offensive. Arno Herwerth, 42, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 20, 2007 09:16
Horowitz Calls Ahmadinejad ‘Persian Hitler’
Several days after the story of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Columbia University visit inflamed the blogosphere, professional outrage monger David Horowitz has weighed in. Robert Stacy McCain has the story on the front page of today's Washington Times. Columbia University's invitation to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the Ivy League school's New York City campus tomorrow is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 23, 2007 07:47
Policemen Outlawed in Washington State
Firemen too. Horrible sexist terms, not gender-neutral. It’s almost official: There soon will be no more firemen or policemen in Washington. And they’re vanishing with barely a whimper. The state Senate voted 41-1 on Friday to get rid of all references to “fireman” and “policeman” in a state law about public employee pensions and replace them with gender-neutral words: firefighter ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 17, 2007 23:56
Professor Bainbridge Magazine Now Blog Again
Steve Bainbridge has announced that his experiment with a multi-blog magazine format is ending and he is re-consolidating has activities at his old domain, ProfessorBainbridge.com®. The consolidated blog will focus on law, business, and economics, serving as an on-line adjunct to my scholarship and teaching (indeed, I'm posting links to both the PowerPoint slides from my Business Associations class ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 25, 2007 13:58
Anti-Anti-Semitism and Political Correctness
Matt Yglesias uses a recent mini-controversy surrounding Wes Clark to discuss the bizarre state of "anti-anti-Semitism" in American political discourse. Essentially, the fact there is a well-heeled Israeli lobby that has a powerful influence on American foreign policy and is currently pressing for war in Iran can be acknowledged to thunderous applaud by those advocating one set of public ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 24, 2007 06:30
